At Long Last... New Tires and Rims

[technocoy]

Hey Kat...

I can't figure out where the differences in lightness seem to come from when applying the refinish restorer...

When I put a product on mine it can be light as hell but it always darkens WAY up once the product starts to sink in a bit.

I know you said you washed your cladding really well, but it makes me think that some cladding isn't absorbing like others...

weird.

[VX KAT]

Hey Kat...

I can't figure out where the differences in lightness seem to come from when applying the refinish restorer...

When I put a product on mine it can be light as hell but it always darkens WAY up once the product starts to sink in a bit.

I know you said you washed your cladding really well, but it makes me think that some cladding isn't absorbing like others...

weird.

My cladding just never looked dark, check out my early gallery pics when I first got it. Weird too is that my cladding didn't look dry & parched when I got it, it was in real good condition, it's just a lighter gray I guess.....

Before I applied the R/R, I had used Stoner trim, B2B, some liquid in a neon lime green spray bottle (2000 something), the horrible grape smelling Mequiars Gold Endurance Tire gel, the ICE product, even Windex!....all made it very slightly darker, but nothing like vt mavs or many others. When I applied the R/R, it acted the same, just darkened a tad.

Recall, my gasoline stain refused to budge also, despite trying like 5 or 6 remedies that others had used successfully.....starting to make me wonder if the PO did something weird to my cladding
So now that I've properly applied the R/R, it's done, that stuff is a hard permanent coating. I just wish I'd tried some shoe polish before I first applied the R/R last year, that may have worked, I don't know.