How to make IROC hood louvers shine!
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How to make IROC hood louvers shine!
I recently bought NOS GM IROC hood louvers. My old ones were ok but a little faded. So the new ones really are a matt black. I tried to polish them up a little and now they don't look too good. Any ideas on how to get a shine to them. Any products I should use? I've used Meguirs plastic polish, T-Cut and Mer so far!
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Re: How to make IROC hood louvers shine!
Sand them down and spray them with a glossy black, Krylon makes a really nice line of plastic paints.
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Mine weren't new, but I painted them as well with a glossy black and they look great!
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Re: How to make IROC hood louvers shine!
If you dont want to repaint and sand them. Go out and By that heavy tire wet gel.. i used to use that it stays glossy. but becareful with it. it can be quite messy but it,ll keep it wet looking for quite a bit
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I have had excellent results with Meguiars Hot Shine. Only spray the applicator instead of the piece your working on . Stops over spray.
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Mothers aluminum mag polish. Mine look like a black plastic mirror. Its simply amazing.
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Re: How to make IROC hood louvers shine!
There is a type of paint you can use thatll dye it, i was gonna repaint my interior plastics and a guy at a local paint shop said someone makes a paint that will soak into the plastic and basically re-dye it gloss black, you could try that.
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Re: How to make IROC hood louvers shine!
well you could either paint them or try what i did. my louvers were badily faded and pitted since it sad outside for 5+yrs and i just came up with this combo when i was restoring the paint. btw im using a big 10in buffer so a smaller buffer or dremel would be MUCH better. ok first i used turtle wax premium rubbing compound and did that really good, then used meguirs scratch remover, and then turtle wax ice liquid polish. they turned out nicely but still i should repaint them. i'll add later.
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I will post pics of mine tomarrow. They look as good as they did on the show room floor.
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