Chrome cleaning?
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another Blue Magic fanboy here
no expUrt by any means, just my experience from having tried a half dozen or more chrome 'n metal polishes from all the major brands on chrome and aluminum car/truck wheels over the years.
they all make 'em shine (even the crap autozone house brand spray 'n wipe detailer makes it shine)
Better polishes give a richer/deeper shine though compared to spray 'n wipe detailers
what sold me on Blue Magic is the ease that cooked on brake dust/residue comes off.
as well as deep rich shine.
so I naturally used it for my bike (lots of chrome and polished aluminum dish rear wheel) I bought a couple years ago.
I've found nothing better/easier/faster to remove the bug spatter on forks, nor anything faster/easier to remove boot heel cooked on pipes.
AND...did I mention the DEEP/RICH shine!!
always open to better suggestions from real experts, but I haven't found anything better that Blue Magic for chrome and aluminum
..L.T.A.
no expUrt by any means, just my experience from having tried a half dozen or more chrome 'n metal polishes from all the major brands on chrome and aluminum car/truck wheels over the years.
they all make 'em shine (even the crap autozone house brand spray 'n wipe detailer makes it shine)
Better polishes give a richer/deeper shine though compared to spray 'n wipe detailers
what sold me on Blue Magic is the ease that cooked on brake dust/residue comes off.
as well as deep rich shine.
so I naturally used it for my bike (lots of chrome and polished aluminum dish rear wheel) I bought a couple years ago.
I've found nothing better/easier/faster to remove the bug spatter on forks, nor anything faster/easier to remove boot heel cooked on pipes.
AND...did I mention the DEEP/RICH shine!!
always open to better suggestions from real experts, but I haven't found anything better that Blue Magic for chrome and aluminum
..L.T.A.
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Inexpensive Turtle Wax chrome cleaner/polish worked the best for me. I picked up a 10 year old bike that had sat, un-used, in a garage for most of it's life. Had light oxidation spots everywhere. I used about 4-5 different products, but the Turtle wax was by far the most effective.
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I used to clean the chrome with washing, or touch-up with windex, and then put a coat of wax on it...
Sometimes, I'd use my Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish instead of wax. It's a cream polish for aluminum, much like Blue Magic.
Then one day I tried Mother's Chrome Polish (same stuff in post #2) on my chrome..... Certainly not scientific, but I would swear it gave cleaned chrome a brilliance I never noticed before with the other methods, polishes.... It is pretty inexpensive too... It doesn't clean the chrome (bugs & tar) like the creme polish, which I suspect may have some light abrasives in it. It seems to shine better, and protects at least as well...
Mothers Chrome Polish became my go to polish/protectant for all my chrome parts & pieces since then..
I still use Mothers Mag & Aluminum polish on aluminum parts/wheels....
Sometimes, I'd use my Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish instead of wax. It's a cream polish for aluminum, much like Blue Magic.
Then one day I tried Mother's Chrome Polish (same stuff in post #2) on my chrome..... Certainly not scientific, but I would swear it gave cleaned chrome a brilliance I never noticed before with the other methods, polishes.... It is pretty inexpensive too... It doesn't clean the chrome (bugs & tar) like the creme polish, which I suspect may have some light abrasives in it. It seems to shine better, and protects at least as well...
Mothers Chrome Polish became my go to polish/protectant for all my chrome parts & pieces since then..
I still use Mothers Mag & Aluminum polish on aluminum parts/wheels....
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I used to clean the chrome with washing, or touch-up with windex, and then put a coat of wax on it...
Sometimes, I'd use my Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish instead of wax. It's a cream polish for aluminum, much like Blue Magic.
Then one day I tried Mother's Chrome Polish (same stuff in post #2) on my chrome..... Certainly not scientific, but I would swear it gave cleaned chrome a brilliance I never noticed before with the other methods, polishes.... It is pretty inexpensive too... It doesn't clean the chrome (bugs & tar) like the creme polish, which I suspect may have some light abrasives in it. It seems to shine better, and protects at least as well...
Mothers Chrome Polish became my go to polish/protectant for all my chrome parts & pieces since then..
I still use Mothers Mag & Aluminum polish on aluminum parts/wheels....
Sometimes, I'd use my Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish instead of wax. It's a cream polish for aluminum, much like Blue Magic.
Then one day I tried Mother's Chrome Polish (same stuff in post #2) on my chrome..... Certainly not scientific, but I would swear it gave cleaned chrome a brilliance I never noticed before with the other methods, polishes.... It is pretty inexpensive too... It doesn't clean the chrome (bugs & tar) like the creme polish, which I suspect may have some light abrasives in it. It seems to shine better, and protects at least as well...
Mothers Chrome Polish became my go to polish/protectant for all my chrome parts & pieces since then..
I still use Mothers Mag & Aluminum polish on aluminum parts/wheels....
