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Location: Lakewood NJ/Murrells Inlet SC/ N. Naples FL/Swainton NJ
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Like many vehicles, mine have vinyl dark gray/black trim around the bottom edges, wheel wells, etc. I try my best to be careful, but I always end up getting paste wax where the vinyl meets the paint leaving white smears when dried (kind of like the white smears you get on a dark pullover after applying many kinds of deodorant and pulling it on).
Anyone find a product that is effective in removing the white paste wax smear from the dark vinyl?
Try one of those back to black trim products and try and work it in with a soft toothbrush.
I have the same issue on my CUV (black color) and it helped. I didn't think the paste wax is going to be so stubborn. Now I use Turtle wax Ice on the lower portions of the car, it does not leave any residue on plastic trim.
Like many vehicles, mine have vinyl dark gray/black trim around the bottom edges, wheel wells, etc. I try my best to be careful, but I always end up getting paste wax where the vinyl meets the paint leaving white smears when dried (kind of like the white smears you get on a dark pullover after applying many kinds of deodorant and pulling it on).
Anyone find a product that is effective in removing the white paste wax smear from the dark vinyl?
Forget the trim products, use a different polish. Use something like Klasse and you won't have to worry about smears or white powdery smears again.
If you use a real good product you won't have to buy all kinds of other liquids, pastes or special this or that that just ends up costing you money and at best, provides a very temporary solution.
To maintain a vehicles exterior only one good product is needed, not a bunch of special products for each surface type. Save your money.
Almost all the special liquids require re-application to maintain. Look up Klasse. It takes very little of the product to work and can be used on all exterior surfaces including mirrors and the windshield. It goes on over rubber, plastic and painted surfaces and leave no residue and best of all, you really only need to do it once per year. (I do not have any financial/business interests in it).
It is one of the easiest polishes/protectants I've ever used. Any carnuba wax will be useless if the paint gets very hot, which can happen in summer.
Carnuba wax has it's uses, especially on custom or older finishes where the paint can be cleaned and buffed. If your car isn't older than 20 years at least, there is no buffing of the paint as the clear coat covers the paint and no matter what you do to the clear coat, the paint will never get any better than it is. You can polish to some degree, the clear coat but that is about it.
The best detail shop in the world can't touch the paint if it has a clear coat on it, no matter what they claim. The same goes for all the special waxes, carnubas and space age nano this and that. The marketing for those products though all try to tel la different story until you read the very fine print.
In the end, if your car has the same finish that it came with from the factory, you don't need a bucket full of bottles and cans of special pastes and such.
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