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    I read from another thread on the forum is to use tire dressing on plastic parts. I did it to mine and its all clean and shiny
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    Quote Originally Posted by trojanone1 View Post
    I read from another thread on the forum is to use tire dressing on plastic parts. I did it to mine and its all clean and shiny
    give it 2 weeks, then go look at it again, it will look like crap, i did that one time, looks good, but every last speck of dirt sticks to it fast, looks worse then a dirty engine in a month.

    i learned my lesson with tire shine on the engine bay, wont happen twice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scottydoggs View Post
    give it 2 weeks, then go look at it again, it will look like crap, i did that one time, looks good, but every last speck of dirt sticks to it fast, looks worse then a dirty engine in a month.

    i learned my lesson with tire shine on the engine bay, wont happen twice.
    still looks good a week later. We will see how it looks in another couple weeks.
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