Cloudy aluminium trim - improvement not cure

[DickyC]

Baby Oil applied with a rag.





It's not a cure, but it's a hell of a lot better.

Wiped it on and wiped it off yesterday. Wiped it again today as it had beaded a bit.

Stories of hours spent polishing made me seek a lazy man's solution. A car dealer I know told me.

[r159]

I tried calling to polish up cloudy trim on an Audi and ended up going through it….

[paul_c123]

Chrome trim can cope fine with intensive polishing, eg a coarse cutting compound on a rotary tool with a lot of pressure, using the edge. I don't think baby oil is going to do anything except temporarily make it shinier, by filling in the voids between the contaminants/dirt/stuff on it.

[DickyC]

paul_c123 said:

Chrome trim can cope fine with intensive polishing, eg a coarse cutting compound on a rotary tool with a lot of pressure, using the edge. I don't think baby oil is going to do anything except temporarily make it shinier, by filling in the voids between the contaminants/dirt/stuff on it.

That's exactly what it does and it looks a lot better.

And it takes five minutes. My days of intensive car work are long past and I was pleased to see such improvement with so little effort.

/lazy man's guide