Ally polish/don't polish?

[Mark 4.3]

Finally got my pre-cat Griff friday, just in time for rush hour traffic & rain. Entertained half the M40 crowd, as I had to stop on hard shoulder and struggled to extract roof panel from boot ! Sixty quid of petrol later, I am totally hooked. Anyway, spending some time giving the car a good valet, and fancied polishing the window A-frames and door handles with a standard metal polish. Does anybody know if this is OK, or are these bits lacquered??

[craigalsop]

quote:Finally got my pre-cat Griff friday, just in time for rush hour traffic & rain. Entertained half the M40 crowd, as I had to stop on hard shoulder and struggled to extract roof panel from boot ! Sixty quid of petrol later, I am totally hooked. Anyway, spending some time giving the car a good valet, and fancied polishing the window A-frames and door handles with a standard metal polish. Does anybody know if this is OK, or are these bits lacquered??

Well if they were laquered, then they wasn't laquered well, as mine soon got tarnished. They polish up nicely though - haven't seen a problem doing it on my Chimaera...

cheers,
Craig

[CleG]

T-Cut or a lighter abrasion brass pollish like brasso will do it

>> Edited by CleG on Wednesday 29th May 07:30

[zippy500]

Autosol is the best stuff. You dont need much pressure and it comes up well shiney. I dont think tehy are laquered.

[dougal]

I use autosol on mine, come up a treat. Be careful doing the interior door pulls as its a bugger to get off the trim.

[dan]

I think they may have been laquered when new. Mine looked a bit grubby so I used brasso/duraglit something like that... Anyway they do seem to get grubbier quicker now, but it doesn't take much to get them all sparkly again, and they certainly look much better than they did.

Cheers Dan

[pete]

I use Autoglym metal polish on my door A frames, door handles and exhaust pipes. Brings them up a treat. Once you've polished them to a mirror finish, give them a going over with standard wax polish to keep the corrosion at bay.

Pete