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Offline moby dick

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Re: Faded plastics
« Reply #10 on: 11 May 2012, 06:27 »
Wow. Some places selling the Forever Black kit for nearly £50, others for £13. Talk about Rip Off Britain
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Re: Faded plastics
« Reply #11 on: 11 May 2012, 06:33 »
As I have to clean up my trim I found this comparison
http://www.hondasuv.com/members/showthread.php?t=39383

Anybody tried Black Wow?
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Re: Faded plastics
« Reply #12 on: 11 May 2012, 07:59 »
Cherry Blossom shoe polish shine & wax ftw!

Looks good, lasts ages and costs about £2

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Re: Faded plastics
« Reply #13 on: 11 May 2012, 10:50 »
Forever Black is good on the smaller stuff but the guy in that post just caked it on.

I like black wow but cbf to order anything online anymore so autogrim trim care will do.
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Re: Faded plastics
« Reply #14 on: 11 May 2012, 12:07 »
As I have to clean up my trim I found this comparison
http://www.hondasuv.com/members/showthread.php?t=39383

Anybody tried Black Wow?

I use black wow and it does work for about 3 months... Not cheap but the bottle has lasted a couple of years now...

I have also bough forever black to try but I have read that it is difficult to use and to get a good even finish...

Never tried the heat gun - scared I might melt the plastic or paint....

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Re: Faded plastics
« Reply #15 on: 11 May 2012, 14:46 »
I'm lucky that my car had been garaged all it's life, so it has original non faded plastics. I give them a layer of AG bumper care now and again and then buff the shine away to leave a natural matt finish.
Red Mk6 gone replaced with a white Mk7 which has gone too. Green Mk2 here to stay.

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Re: Faded plastics
« Reply #16 on: 11 May 2012, 14:48 »
I'm lucky that my car had been garaged all it's life, so it has original non faded plastics. I give them a layer of AG bumper care now and again and then buff the shine away to leave a natural matt finish.

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Re: Faded plastics
« Reply #17 on: 11 May 2012, 14:52 »
I'm lucky that my car had been garaged all it's life, so it has original non faded plastics. I give them a layer of AG bumper care now and again and then buff the shine away to leave a natural matt finish.

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Re: Faded plastics
« Reply #18 on: 11 May 2012, 15:38 »
As I have to clean up my trim I found this comparison
http://www.hondasuv.com/members/showthread.php?t=39383

Anybody tried Black Wow?

I use black wow and it does work for about 3 months... Not cheap but the bottle has lasted a couple of years now...

I have also bough forever black to try but I have read that it is difficult to use and to get a good even finish...

Never tried the heat gun - scared I might melt the plastic or paint....

Just read all the Honda Thread & Thought this post was interesting...

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I would like to mention that the creator of Black Wow created an account a couple of weeks ago here on HondaSUV.com in order to send me a PM about the testing. He explained a little more about what I was seeing, and answered some of my questions, and explained that with older, more faded plastic that it might take several applications of Black Wow over several days or even weeks to stop the Black Wow from fading as the plastic absorbs the Black Wow, but even then I might still need to reapply it every few months.

So it's obviously not a product you can apply once and forget, like Forever Black dye or painting the trim.

He also said that after I followed his suggestions that if I wasn't happy with it I could send him the remaining Black Wow for a refund.

Because of the time he took to explain how it worked, and his recommendations for applying it, and of course the refund offer, I'm going to give Black Wow another chance...just as soon as it warms up.

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Re: Faded plastics
« Reply #19 on: 11 May 2012, 15:52 »
Chance for some pic whoring , fed up with forever blacking over white/grey bits so spent the money bought myself a heat gun and after half an hour cleaning of all the lotions and balms rubbed in over the years this is the result, completely untreated and in the buff