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11-23-04, 07:49
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Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Southport, CT Posts: 6,667 | Glad some of you are finding this tutorial useful. 
Peter: Not with that procedure no...For anything on the car, all jewelry comes off (except my necklace).
hadboosttroy: I haven't used it, but have heard good things. The Meguiar's plastic polish (for marine use) works great as well for soft plastic. You may wanna give PlastX from Meguiar's a shot as well for your rear window.
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11-24-04, 12:57
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Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: West Chester, Pa. Posts: 6,277 | Great writeup Sean....  | |
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11-24-04, 01:31
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Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: VIR Road Course, Va Posts: 5,687 | Excellent write-up Sean. Definitely Hall of Fame material.
Have you tried Plastix for similiarly marred/oxidized (no deep imperfections)? I find this product works quite well.
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11-24-04, 04:11
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Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Atlanta Posts: 96 | Great "how to" write up. Thank you very much....
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11-24-04, 04:45
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Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Southport, CT Posts: 6,667 | Thanks
blkZ28: No I haven't, but for swirled and defected lights, I believe this is one of the only ways to get em back.
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11-24-04, 05:55
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Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Chile Posts: 105 | Sean, have you tried this method in a dashboard cluster?, mine has a lot of fine scratches 
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11-24-04, 06:17
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Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Home of Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama Posts: 15 | Awsome job Sean, leave it to a TKE to be this anal about his job... To bad you are so far up North, someone with your talents could make a killing in Mobile next to the beautiful bay.
Next can you work on a convertable top procedure??... I just had to replace the wifes Miata's
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11-24-04, 06:23
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Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 33 |  Impressive
I'm perlexed. Why aluminum polish on plastic?? Why not just a plastic polish?? Also how would something like this compare to your method?? I've been looking for a new method to polish out the nicks/pits in my headlights and was wondering which method would be more effective.
What's your opinion, Sean?
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11-24-04, 07:00
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Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Southport, CT Posts: 6,667 | Lochi: I wouldn't go this abrasive on the dash cluster. I have used Meguiar's #10 and #17 with excellent success. You can get them from www.westmarine.com
Almighty: Absolutely! Which school are you a TKE at? Are you talking about the convertible rear window? or the actual top care?
GS400: After you wetsand, you need something rather abrasive to bring back the shine. Metal polish cuts down and levels out the surface leaving an amazing shine behind. Most plastic polishes only contain a VERY small amount of abrasives.
The problem with that kit is there is no wetsanding involved. When you wetsand, you level out the surface...That is doing nothing more than polishing away the oxidation. FWIW: I have used this method on headlights that are pretty pitted with great success. Next set of lights I do, I will take them out and give full documentation.
Hope this helps.
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11-24-04, 07:11
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Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Home of Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama Posts: 15 | Sean, UWA or Livingston University when I was there ,IY chapter, I graduated back in 1998. As for as the top both would be nice I just received the megs clear plastic stuff, cleaner/polish/and the spray cleaner and meg #? Vinyl protectant from Autogeek.
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11-24-04, 08:02
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Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Austin, Tx Posts: 1,737 | Nice write up Sean.
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11-24-04, 08:29
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Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 164 | Dude!!! You are unbelievable!! | |
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