Cleaning Your Stripes

[Fender34]

Hey guys. I know I'm intruding on your forum but i have a quick question, bare with me. My friend's dad just got a 09 gt500 and he is afraid to wax the stripes or even clean them.. He is just wondering how you guys clean them or how you are supposed to clean them and what with.. If you guys could help out that would be great.. Thanks!

 

[evasive]

I treat them like the paint - I use a clay bar, quality microfiber cloths, and quality paste wax (from someplace like properautocare.com or Adams polishes). I go in the direction of the stripes so as not to fubar the edges. As with waxing, you don't want to use too much pressure. I won't use the Porter-Cable buffer on them though...only by hand.

 

[Quade]

I wash and wax them just like the painted portion.

 

[mblgjr]

For the most part, you can treat them like paint.

You can actually polish them with a PC and the proper pad at a slow speed. They're sooooo easy to scratch it's ridiculous.

Don't use anything with mineral spirits or heavy solvents.

I've been using CG ClearSeal on mine; works well for me.
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CG Final Polish does nicely for cleaning and lightly polishing them (paint too).
scratch and swirl remover FP final polish

CG FP will not take scratches out (the superfine scratches).

A PC, speed 4; 4.5 with a 4" LC white pad; and Menz. 203S worked for me. Work slowly.

Mixxer once recommended to me about the same setup, but used 3M Ultrafina as the polish.

 

[mullens]

This is good stuff. It can be used as a stand alone or between waxes. Makes the stripes look great.

http://www.mothers.com/02_products/20224.html

 

[Q8_Shelby]

i wash and wax them just like the painted portion.

+1

 

[09Troublemaker]

Wax with little pressure and clean M/F's and you'll be fine

As others have said. I've used my polisher on them with no issues.

 

[Fender34]

Thanks sooo much you guys.. This helped him out a lot..

 

[chuckstang]

what stripes?

 

[Hec332]

what stripes?

lol,yea my flat blak stripes suck..

 

[BreezeHill]

Just got a Shelby with white stripes and found this in query. Thanks I will need to do this . Also anyone know the best way to scrub/clean the brake dust off my svtpp wheels?

I treat them like the paint - I use a clay bar, quality microfiber cloths, and quality paste wax (from someplace like properautocare.com or Adams polishes). I go in the direction of the stripes so as not to fubar the edges. As with waxing, you don't want to use too much pressure. I won't use the Porter-Cable buffer on them though...only by hand.

 

[HillbillyHotRod]

Do not wax if they are matte stripes.

 

[BreezeHill]

Got it thanks