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Technical => Body/Appearance/Interior => Topic started by: RDOG on April 07, 2011, 02:05:53 PM

Title: How to clean and polish the lower half of 86 TC
Post by: RDOG on April 07, 2011, 02:05:53 PM
Does anyone know how I can clean up, rather than paint, the lower half of a 86 Turbo TC? It will save me on the paint job, plus it will retain a nice stock look.(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t97/biggrgivens/1986%20Black%20Thunderbird/main.jpg)

I want it to shine like its new

I want it to look like the lower half of this car
(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t97/biggrgivens/1986%20Black%20Thunderbird/stock86imagecopy.jpg)
Title: How to clean and polish the lower half of 86 TC
Post by: daminc on April 07, 2011, 02:21:50 PM
why don't you just paint it with duplicolor or something..
Title: How to clean and polish the lower half of 86 TC
Post by: hypostang on April 07, 2011, 06:20:57 PM
SEM trim paint in Charcoal works absolutely fantastic , I re-did the lower portion of my Mark Vii and it came out great and it took less than one can
Title: How to clean and polish the lower half of 86 TC
Post by: daminc on April 07, 2011, 06:34:53 PM
it would be easier to repaint, then try to restore something that's sun baked
Title: How to clean and polish the lower half of 86 TC
Post by: Haystack on April 07, 2011, 09:43:12 PM
The trim is both rubber and plastic, at least on 87-88. The plastics I have heard you can rub vasiline or petrolium jelley on it to make it alittle bit softer. I'm not sure how you would fix the rubber trim.
Title: How to clean and polish the lower half of 86 TC
Post by: FirstBird on April 07, 2011, 11:50:37 PM
My mom has a 01 Jeep Grand Cherokee and the trim around the car became a light grey, so i hit it with a heat gun and it returned the dark grey to the bumper. I dont know if the same can be done to this plastic.