Removing polish/wax from rubber and plastic trim?

Most bikers I know coat bikes in WD40, it works wonders in keeping the paintwork clean and means that you can wipe off any dirt with ease. I've never known it damage our paintwork, maybe car paint is of an inferior quality? :p
 
Well I tried some WD40 and it came up a treat! I need to head back out with some cotton wool buds and get at the smaller details like around the door handles.
 
wd40 strips all wax/polish etc, it's like white spirit. You could coat your paint in it if you want but it's not goin to do any good, where it lubricates and protects moving parts fine, it doesn't do anything for paint other than make your clothes dirty when you rub against it

and wicksta if it's stripping wax and polish off of trim why isn't it going to do the same from paint?
 
Toker said:
and wicksta if it's stripping wax and polish off of trim why isn't it going to do the same from paint?
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Your original post came across as if you were saying WD40 would strip paint, owing to the fact you didn't mention polish or wax, but just said that WD40 + paint = bad and said it strips everything (I assumed paint came under the definition of everything). :)
 
Autoglym Bumper Care is great, hasnt got some kind of black paint or anything in it, just a greeny gel which seems to somehow 'feed' black plastics and rubber really well and gets rid of white wax/polish residue just like that! (that = PING!)
 
Wicksta said:
Your original post came across as if you were saying WD40 would strip paint, owing to the fact you didn't mention polish or wax, but just said that WD40 + paint = bad and said it strips everything (I assumed paint came under the definition of everything). :)
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you assumed wrong :)
 
WD40 is a water dissplacer i am pretty sure invented 1940 hence the name it also contains silicone which is not car body shop friendly wherever silicone lands you will never get paint to cover it without the fisheye effect, to remove silicone you have to clean it away with a silicone remover and sometimes it takes several goes at it to get rid of it.. The best way to remove polishes from plastic is to use petrol on a clean rag and scrub then wipe of before it evaporates you will notice the amount of black muck that stays on the rag. This is what my resprayer does, oh and also back to black is loaded with silicone, nowadays it is best to avoid car products that have silicone and it will and should say on the packaging.. AND OBVIOUSLY DONT SMOKE WHEN USING PETROL..
 
holbay said:
WD40 is a water dissplacer i am pretty sure invented 1940 hence the name it also contains silicone which is not car body shop friendly wherever silicone lands you will never get paint to cover it without the fisheye effect, to remove silicone you have to clean it away with a silicone remover and sometimes it takes several goes at it to get rid of it.. The best way to remove polishes from plastic is to use petrol on a clean rag and scrub then wipe of before it evaporates you will notice the amount of black muck that stays on the rag. This is what my resprayer does, oh and also back to black is loaded with silicone, nowadays it is best to avoid car products that have silicone and it will and should say on the packaging.. AND OBVIOUSLY DONT SMOKE WHEN USING PETROL..
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You sir, are ridiculous.
 
Well from experience that wax blaster stuff was a waste of money. I got collonite wax on some bits of my old car (number plate surround for example) and wax blaster, wd40, washing up liquird,elbow grease etc wouldn't get it off. Just kept coming back after it had dried out.

In the end I admitted defeat.
 
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