I was reading a sport compact car in there a while ago and there was a CRX that said it had blackened moldings. I was wondering if anybody knows anything about this, if its just painting them?, cuz that sounds like it would just evetually flake off, or if its a reconditiong sorta thing. it sounds like a nice thing to do to make them look new. THANKS.


Modified by wish4RWD at 12:01 AM 6/29/2003

 

Are you talking about restoring the factory moldings back to the shiny black color? If so, there is a polish called Mothers Back to Black that you can use. I've used it, and it worked pretty well.

 

Sounds good. thanks for the tip. They mentioned this is the magazine like it was something special like a paintjob or something.

 

some people here use a heat gun....
on their bumpers and stuff
suppoosely the heat will bring some of the black color shine back up...

 

I used Skippy Peanut Butter to darken my side moldings.

 

i dont even know how to react to that last one.

 

i painted my front and rear bumper, and my moldings with dupli-color paint for Moldings (green can). its more of a flat black than shiny. i didnt want the shiny look at all. i personally like the flat black.

 

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Well, it does sound stupid. But it does infact work. The oils in the peanut butter stick like a **** to the plastic and bring it back to black...

 

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There are WHOLE threads about the peanut-butter/molding polish issue.
Search it.
If you don't believe, I kid you not.

 

Yeah its true the peanut butter works, however the pb and mothers and any other "restorer" I've never seen last as long as the heat gun or a good paint job. The heat gun works wonders, thats the method I used after using Black Magic every month.

 

Hey, on the heat gun part... how long do I heat an area up? Is it only like a minute per 6 inches... or less or more...

 

Depends on how powerful your heat gun is, get a decent one and you jus hold it on one spot for 2-3 seconds and you'll see it darken. Jus go in sections, theres no exact method.

 

Go here https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=513401
look about halfway down the page and you'll see what the heat gun does. Plus theres all kinds of other methods.