What is the best way of cleaning the porous black trim on the Explorer's? I have it as door handles and flares. I used the Mother's Powerball For Paint and it got on the trim. Just dont know a good safe cleaner to get it off.
I don't use a cleaner, but my product selection does depend if the plastic is starting to turn color. If you happy with the color, I would use a tooth brush to rub in Mother's Protectant (any good vinyl/plastic dressing should be fine). If you want it blacker, then I would start with Back to black, brush it in, then spray it Protectant and buff clean.
The tooth brush is really the key to it, it will flick the small dry bits of wax out of the larger pores. A micro fiber (or what passes as microfiber) cloths are pretty good at getting in and at the parts the tooth brush can't.
Just as a tip I learned from the Mother's Site, put back to black on your trim before you wax. It fills the pores in and makes buffing the wax residue out much easier.
I've only had that trouble on my tailgate handle. I use it on the rubber around my fender flare and windows. I think the trick is you have to buff the b2b off once your done.
If you want to experiment, you might try your vinyl dressing of choice on the trim before waxing and see if that keeps it from hanging on.
Try rubbing peanut butter (smooth) is better on the trim where the polish discolored the trim. You can rub it in by hand. I am not kidding it actually works.
Try rubbing peanut butter (smooth) is better on the trim where the polish discolored the trim. You can rub it in by hand. I am not kidding it actually works.
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Cleaning black exterior trim?
