Hey guys,

I am looking for a product to restore the black plastic grilles on my car, what would you recommend that's affordable and easy-ish to buy?

Any help would be appreciated!

I would start with a good clean using an APC and a grill brush to clean all the dirt and build up from the grill. Then spray on some VRP (vinyl rubber plastic) like the one from CarChem or Tyre and Trim gel also from CarChem. Use these two on my trimming and works a charm.

Nice clean and matt look.

Like mentioned, good clean with apc and a brush, followed by IMO, PERL or CQuartz Dlux coating. Checkout AutoDNA for pricing on both

As mentioned before the cleaning of the grills as above is important.

You can also have a look at Angelwax Elixir that we have for R301.91 Incl. for 500ml. Alternatively coat it using Ceramic Pro.

The rest of the product range can be found here : http://vwclub.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?f=147&t=205799

With an additional forum discount can be found here : http://vwclub.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?f=147&t=205802

Really depends on how far gone they are to start with.

I agree with the others so far in terms of starting with a decent APC wash.

A lot of the 'white' look you get is due to the top layer of plastic oxidizing, and so in some cases a scrub with a fairly stiff bristled brush is a great way to remove this dead layer. Typically this is only required when the plastic is really shagged.

In terms of products to use to 'dress' it once clean, you really have 3 main sort of options.

1. re-dye the faded plastic with Solution Finish
2. use a 'normal' water based dressing (PERL neat is a great option, but there have been some reported issues of it running off, although I haven't experienced it) as are the plethora of other vinyl,rubber/tyre dressings you get.... they all have their own little differences in terms of how shiny they are, how easily they spread, how long they last etc.
3. Coat them with something like Gyeon Trim or Carpro Dlux

This article by Mike is well worth the read https://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/au ... -trim.html

And another of his articles pertaining to Solution Finish https://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/pr ... torer.html

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