NHB - DIY Colour Coding - NOT recommended

[TTDegs]

Originally Posted by M88RKE

No Not really,

Born and bread in Cardiff (Tremorfa) but spent a lot on my time in the Roath area - sounds sad but the houses looked familiar (from what I can see anyway)

Live in Portsmouth now so unless you have a good set of binoculars...

LOL - now I'm impressed!

[TTDegs]

okaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy


DON'T use this as a mod if you ever intend using a power washer on your car


Mine was in for a service today, and I forgot to tick the 'please do not wash me' option

I can now confirm that a power washer removes 99% of back to black - which means it's now back to grey

[Kerry]

Hi everyone,

Spoke to someone recently about buying a black car and asked for advice, as he had several black cars in the past.

He mentioned that scratches can be covered by using black shoe polish. Do you think this could be the answer to the conversion of the grey to black trim on a NHB civic?

Don't blame me if things go wrong though, it's just a thought

Kerry

[Glass Spider]

[sco77harris]

sounds feasable

[TTDegs]

I think, possibly, that the failure was in my (lack of) preperation


looking back, I had washed the car, so it was clean (and dry) - BUT way back when, it wouldn't surprise me if I'd got wax on the trim.

Either that, or Honda coat the trim / make it out of some waxy substance.

Might try again, but properly cleaning the trim first with some solvent or something...

It did look good - while it lasted

[koolaid]

how about black color wax? would that stick...?

[Foggy69]

Hey TT, I hope you are not going to blame me for all this wasted effort you have put into your car.

[TTDegs]

Originally Posted by koolaid

how about black color wax? would that stick...?

it might - trouble is I thought the black trim wax would until the dealer cleaned it

Originally Posted by Foggy69

Hey TT, I hope you are not going to blame me for all this wasted effort you have put into your car.

as if....

although, now you mention it...

[Tomthumb]

there is another platic cleaner thing that adds black to the plastic. I used it on a 12 year old polo and the bumpers looked like new, nice and black. It lasts a lot longer than back to black and adds blackness. It was very messy to use my hands were black for weeks (I suppose washing would of helped).
Back to black just restores the original colour and dosnt last very long. I used it on my AX's red plastic bumpers, looked good for about 2 weeks then needed doing again. This other stuff add's black.

Trouble is I cant rember what it was called.

[TTDegs]

you were doing really well until the last line!

[deeny]

i use auto glym instant tyre dressing on my tyres and the plastic trim around the car plus interior plastic doors and kickplate trust me you will be impressed. Spray on tyres and leave dry ,but on plastic trim spray on and buff off easy for a top result try it out you wont be dissapointed. Comes in a white spray bottle with black writing approx 5 pound for a 500 mil spray

[TTDegs]

I'm sure it works very well on those bits deeny

None of the products I've tried seem to 'stick' to the exterior trim tho

[deeny]

like i said this does and when it rains it gives a wax like seal , give it a try then tell me your not impressed, dont forget its first use is a tyre dressing designed for outside use. and before anybody says about damaging plastics ,it wont happen ,own ktm offroad bike and use it on every surface of bike looks like new seat,side rads mudguards anything never had a problem in 4 years of use

[TTDegs]

if I can get some before Sunday I might give it a go

[Jacqui]

So TTDegs did you find anything that done the job for you and stayed put when washed???