Greying bumpers etc

Just washed my freelander and it looks great apart from the grey bumpers and trims. I've tried a spray which is intended for this but I'm not having much luck. Does anyone have any ideas please

Linseed oil

Well I tried penut butter and the bumpers looked great for about a day, I have tried to flame them to but the looked streaky I think and oil mixed with a small amount of a thinner is next for me something to soften up the surface and get into the plastic

They do let the look of the car down loads

hot air gun

Black boot polish.
Mike

'boiled linseed oil' I use it on all my black trim and hard top roof and its amazing and lasts for weeks

Gtechniq C4

what bb and dudley said

I used forever black and now just to keep them tiptop I use the shoe polish that comes in a tube with the sponge on the end . They look good and the rain/water beads on them too.

I also used something called black bumper restorer or something similar.
It was later I discovered that the bumpers left the factory in grey..
They are black now though.

I use a turtle wax product callec black chrome and it works well. Bottle says to buff with dry cloth after after applying but I dont even do that, just apply couple of hours before washing and comes up good.

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f9/bye-bye-grey-trim-179070.html
http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f9/bumper-care-163940.html
http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f9/faded-bumpers-158924.html
http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f9/how-clean-hippo-bumpers-156214.html
etc............

and in addition

Heat Gun

Morten said:

I also used something called black bumper restorer or something similar.
It was later I discovered that the bumpers left the factory in grey..
They are black now though.

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Where do you get that magic stuff from that's exactly what I need

RO51 said:

Where do you get that magic stuff from that's exactly what I need

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Bought it local here in Norway, I would search ebay for "black bumper shine" or something similar, also uses a turtle wax "something", as others have mentioned before, same effect.

Not cheapest option but if contact some of the breakers on fleabay etc I'd get a full set of td4/blacker trim I got a full rear bumper for 20quid in a job lot order when I needed some parts, but I use autoglym bumper restorer /conditioner it works well and lasts a long time

Turtle wax black shine does the same as what Morten use. Its some black pigments in it.

Last year I bought a sprayer for moulded bumpers and asked for a sort of polish to clean the bumpers before spray it on them...they gave me a pink-coloured product which I used on the bumpers with a sponge, after that I sprayed the bumpers: they look perfect still today, but they've no longer the original grey colour and a sort of grey-blue shade of grey...not bad, though. Lots of people told me they used Arexons "Spoiler renewal" with good results.

Thanks for this. Will start experimenting tomorrow

did you click the links in post #13?