Help need to know how to restore the original colour to Twist interior plastics

[audifan]

Best products and a brief tutorial would be much appreciated. Need a like new finish without destroying them. Pictures would be excellent. Thanks all.

 

[2work]

I’m sure you’ve seen the results using the Volico Paint in a few recent threads.

The colour match from the Volico Twist paint is perfect.

Kind regards,

Tom

 

[audifan]

Yes it was me that suggested this paint a while ago. Thing is I do not want to remove or mask up if I can help it. So would prefer a cleaning in situ if practical.

 

[2work]

Morning again,

To clean up the Twist trim items that hadn’t lost any of the soft touch paint, I can recommend @A2Steve favourite cleaning product, elbow grease. It’s cheap and available from Aldi now and then. It cleans the my Twist interior brilliantly without rubbing/removing any of the factory applied Twist paint.

Once cleansed with said product I wipe it down with a clean damp cloth, leave to dry then apply AutoGlym Rubber and Vinyl, leave that to sit for a few minutes then buff up with yet another clean dry cloth.

The results are truely great. I cannot recommend the Elbow Grease enough though, I just point the bottle at anything and a few minutes later it clean.

The best result I have had with it is the Twist door cards. They had mould spores/spot all around the edges and nothing I tried would remove it. Sprayed them in Elbow Grease, waited a few minutes and scrubbed with a damp cloth. I’m stunned at what this stuff can remove whilst at the same time not destroying what you’re trying to clean.

Kind regards,

Tom

 

[audifan]

Thanks Tom for both your replies. I think I shall try the Elbow Grease. Do you scrub it in with a brush or only use a cloth?

 

[A2Steve]

I just use a damp microfiber cloth. Elbow Grease truly is an astonishing product. It now also comes in large 1 litre bottles, but this pushes the budget a bit at £2

 

[2work]

I use a damp microfibre cloth on plastic trim items along with fabric items. If the mark resists on a fabric item I gently rub with a kids nail brush, don’t use something too aggressive/stiff.

There has been nothing I cannot remove with Elbow Grease, it really is a good product which is much cheaper than anything your find the Auto Detailing area of Halfords and the like. I have tried all the more expensive products on the mould spores on the door cards, nothing removed it.

Kind regards,

Tom

 

[A2Steve]

You can also use elbow grease on leather seats, again with a bristle brush but you can't let it soak on the leather as it can lift the colour in areas. Scrub on wipe off in the space of a minute or 2 at most, but the results are fantastic as it really lightens the leather back to the original colour.

 

[Vorsprung durch Technik]

I used this stuff on the door cards and all interior plastic trim on The Cobalt dream machine. It did a great job along with lots of elbow grease.

 

[2work]

I used this stuff on the door cards and all interior plastic trim on The Cobalt dream machine. It did a great job along with lots of elbow grease.

I have used this on the Twist carpets and it does bring them up nicely. It didn’t shift the mould on the door cards, it did make the fabric around the mould very clean though.

Kind regards,

Tom

 

[johnyfartbox]

Hey, you can even get these now, 99p Aldi.

Joking apart, having used the spray, I found it really dried out my soft well manicured hands ?.
No more. ?