Wax or cleaner or wire brush?

Wax or cleaner or wire brush?

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jmorgan

Original Poster:

36,010 posts

291 months

Friday 12th October 2001
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A few mucky deposits (oily?) around the exhaust on the paint. Whats the best way to shift it? Use Autoglym products at the moment but they don't want to know. Ok on the rest of the body work. Loads of products available down the loacal motor shop but I don't want to buy them all to find they don't work. Any idea's?

EdT

5,132 posts

291 months

Friday 12th October 2001
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you tried AutoGlym 'intensive tar remover'? Still needs bucket loads of elbow grease but have success with it.

Saturn 5

249 posts

280 months

Friday 12th October 2001
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Try white spirit, follow up with polish to replace the protective layer of waxy stuff

jmorgan

Original Poster:

36,010 posts

291 months

Friday 12th October 2001
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Cheers, give it a go this weekend, Autoglym first then white spirit (have to find something else to drink now)

Keithyboy

1,940 posts

277 months

Monday 15th October 2001
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How did you get on? I used "Gunk" a couple of weeks back on the V8S - cleaned it up a treat with little effort - the downside is the smell!! - make sure you use it in a well ventilated area.

tuscan_v8

2,496 posts

291 months

Monday 15th October 2001
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Have you tried go on to www.akb-marketing.co.uk they do a lots of car care range..I have bought them and found them very excellent.

Just click on the link

Cheer

jmorgan

Original Poster:

36,010 posts

291 months

Monday 15th October 2001
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How did you get on? I used "Gunk" a couple of weeks back on the V8S - cleaned it up a treat with little effort - the downside is the smell!! - make sure you use it in a well ventilated area.



The autoglym does work but as EdT says needs elbow grease. Start over the exhaust then as that is clean realise that the rest of the rear is ingrained. Oh well a bit a night.
Was that ordinary Gunk?

jmorgan

Original Poster:

36,010 posts

291 months

Monday 15th October 2001
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Have you tried go on to www.akb-marketing.co.uk they do a lots of car care range..I have bought them and found them very excellent.

Just click on the link

Cheer



Link does not seem to work. Get to a welcome page then no further, will keep trying though.

caro

1,018 posts

291 months

Monday 15th October 2001
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Ordinary Gunk did the trick on oily marks near the exhaust on a Peugeot a while back, after trying various other things without succes. Keithyboy is right though, it stinks!

tuscan_v8

2,496 posts

291 months

Wednesday 17th October 2001
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I have no problem of getting into the AKB as I have bought one last week and it said -

'Click here' - For a link to order from our product range via our secure web store. -

This is the entry to the shop and when I bought it and put it on my bravo as there is a lots of grease/oil slick and it take it off with no ease and my first reaction 'This rule!' as it only took me 2 mins job as oppose to hour job at scrubbing down.

Cheer

jmorgan

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36,010 posts

291 months

Wednesday 17th October 2001
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Must be me browser. 2 versions 4.78 and 6.1 and I cannot get in, have to load up another.

tuscan_v8

2,496 posts

291 months

Wednesday 17th October 2001
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Which browser are you using?