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Old May 12, 2007 | 10:47 AM
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Whats the best way to get the center section to shine again?? its all hazey looking from the sun beating it to death and I can seem to get it to get shiney. Do I have to repaint it???
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Old May 12, 2007 | 03:00 PM
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"back to black" works for me
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Old May 12, 2007 | 03:28 PM
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wax n polish that sucker some or hell even try wet sanding it
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Old May 12, 2007 | 10:35 PM
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back to black worked wonders on mine
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Old May 12, 2007 | 11:56 PM
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I used back to black on mine as well, and it has looked great ever since!!
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I took mine off spray painted it with gloss black..15 minute job and it looks great
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Have a link to the back to black stuff?
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Old May 13, 2007 | 12:38 AM
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I buffed it with plastic polish and my porter cable
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Old May 13, 2007 | 12:41 AM
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Originally Posted by dj2005
Have a link to the back to black stuff?
any auto parts store with a half decent wax section should carry it if you are looking to buy it.
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Old May 13, 2007 | 01:20 AM
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I think im just gonna take it off and paint it with spray cans, then put some clearcoat on it and should be brand freakin new.
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Old May 13, 2007 | 01:32 AM
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Originally Posted by dj2005
Have a link to the back to black stuff?
I work at oreilly's and we have it and I've used it and its great stuff
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Originally Posted by SLVR_99-Z
any auto parts store with a half decent wax section should carry it if you are looking to buy it.
+1........
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Old May 13, 2007 | 02:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Camaro Z
I took mine off spray painted it with gloss black..15 minute job and it looks great
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Originally Posted by SLVR_99-Z
any auto parts store with a half decent wax section should carry it if you are looking to buy it.
Thanks.
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Old May 13, 2007 | 03:08 AM
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Guess I'll be taking that piece off this week and painting it
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Wal-Mart has that Back to Black. Its made by Mothers.
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I have a bottle of Mothers Back to Black if you wanna try it out Friday before the cruize-in.

I like using it on the edges of my TTops, and the black lug-nut covers on my factory wheels.
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Adams makes an In N Out spray (arisol or wipe-on forms) that work very well. Looks makes pretty much any of the outside plastic pieces look factory new in all of 2 seconds. I'm lazy so that's what I use Used it on the front pastic pieces (had some nice white caked on wax I never got off) and it's been a nice deep black/gray since then (6 months ago) and the nice part is is it's safe to get on your paint too (just wipe it off... duh.)
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Originally Posted by SpoldUP
I have a bottle of Mothers Back to Black if you wanna try it out Friday before the cruize-in.

I like using it on the edges of my TTops, and the black lug-nut covers on my factory wheels.
Yeah I might try that and then if it doesnt really work I can always repaint it, when you gonna get those LEDs for the cluster???? Oh yeah and I might have a new guy come with us to the meet he drives a SS Nova with a 454 in it, on the way home saturday I raced him and we talked at walmarts parking lot lol.
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