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Old 06-24-2003, 06:35 PM
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Im having lots of trouble trying to get my engine to shind like so many others have them. I have used armorall on all the black, it looks good for about 10 min then the wetness/blackness fades and looks bad again. Any tips on making your black plastic stick out?
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I use the Armor All wipes. Sometimes I go over the black a couple times and mine stays pretty shiny. I managed to get most of it clean with just the wipes and a toothbrush.
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I use the wipes and it turns out as bad as shown above....
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You mean the pics in the yahoo album is how it looks after the wipes?

That'* odd. You are using the ones in the yellow can right? The purple can won't shine, just clean. The yellow clean AND shine.
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****..... Lol... looks like I got to buy another thing of them......
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So that was the prob. then?
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Yeah I was using the purple.... well atleast I know they are clean when I put the shine stuff on..
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I knew there had to be a simple solution to that. Well I can't wait to see your clean engine soon.

Are you also meeting @ D&B'* Saturday?? If so I'll see it then.
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Yeah I should be there... Man I cracked my windshield while washing it today... Kinda sucks but I needed a new one anyways... We both having good luck eh??
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How the F*** did you do that? Was it already cracked before?

Yeah, I'm slowly on my way to a new paint job with my recent fender-benders (and rust).


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