How to make bumper shine
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How to make bumper shine
I have an '84 Bronco with a steel/chrome bumper. I bought some mothers chrome polish which worked well for all of the trim but did nothing for the thick bumper. It is faded, and just not nearly as shiney as I would like. Are there products out there that any of you have used on bumpers to shine them up?
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Coca-Cola and aluminum foil for a chrome polisher/rust remover was the topic of an episode of mythbusters recently. Sorry, everybody, but it is a myth that was very much BUSTED. The only thing they were able to do with Coca-Cola was shine a penny but it took soaking the penny in a beaker of coke for a few days. I wasn't impressed.
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Never-Dull. Stuff looks like cotton/brillow pad with some chemicals on it. Dad showed it to me, said they used it in the Navy on all the brightwork, took everything thing off and shinned her up real good. I use it on bumpers and exhaust tips. Stuff works great, takes everything off that I have run into.
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If the dulling is from years of being blasted by road grime then nothing short of having it rechromed will do. A bumper like that shouldn't cost more than 150 - 200 US to get chromed. Chromium is an extremely hard element and does not polish well when it is abraded. Cleaning stubborn dirt and grime off of it is one thing but a pitted, scratched, abraded finish needs to be rechromed. People come in all the time and ask us if we can use our industrial buffers to buff out their bumpers and the answer is no, for the simple reason that it doesn't work.
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