Pledge: Long term use? On everything?

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Jun 2, 2012 | 06:16 PM

#21

DresserDude

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You guys are just CHEAP! You buy $10,000-$40,000 bike and can't even use products made for urethane base/clear paint jobs. Buy a good car/bike wax and use some brand of Quick Detailer spray in between. Pledge......never!! By the way, I used to run a high end autobody shop and dealt with Akzo Nobel Sikkens and Sherwin Williams Herbert Standox paints so try not to argue with me. LOL.

Jun 2, 2012 | 07:57 PM

#22

jungleman

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I have used Pledge since 1977. I have used it on chrome, paint, windshields, fairings inner and outer, I have even used it on leather saddle bags. If you compare it with quick detailers
like Mequiers it will work better. IMHO.

Jun 2, 2012 | 08:06 PM

#23

soft 02

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The only thing I wont use it on is wood furniture!

Jun 2, 2012 | 09:08 PM

#24

nick@nite

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I tried it wasn't that impressed and I have buds who been using it for 30 years just not for me...

Jun 3, 2012 | 05:43 AM

#25

Rodzilla6

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I'm ashamed (LOL) to say a buddy of mine turned me onto some Honda spray cleaner/polish and it works better than anything else I have found. Best thing I have found to clean off the brake dust on wheels and help keep it off. Actually made for bikes also...LOL.

Jun 3, 2012 | 07:09 AM

#26

00RKVT

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It's not Honda polish anymore it's called Bike Spirits. It was started by honda but have since sold the rights to those ingredients and made a new polish that is more "enviorment friendly" ingredients as a part of the company going "green". It dosent work very well. Bike Spirits is the stuff you want it works Awesome!!! Have used pledge not for very long and not all the time only when I run out of bike spirits and it works well also. Havent seen any negative effects.

Jun 3, 2012 | 04:50 PM

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Rodzilla6

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Originally Posted by 00RKVT

Bummer! I'll have to make my can last. Thanks for the info, I'll look for the new name when I do run out.

Jul 6, 2013 | 05:17 PM

#28

TUCCI

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Originally Posted by mikesth

Can I get some responses from people that have used Pledge long term (and define long term) confirming it does or doesn't hurt paint, chrome, plastic, windshields? - *4 Bikes, 12 years, no damage

As well as how often they use it. - After every ride unless the bike is wet with roadgrime and/or muddy

Is it only good for slightly dirty bikes or it doesn't mater how dirty? - I won't use it when the bike is wet with roadgrime and/or muddy

Also does it ever create any wax buildup? - no, including multiple windshields - no buildup

My tip was from an Alaskan bush pilot - using it on his plane's windshield. The one downside I am aware of is that the Lemon Pledge (only one I will use) will attract bees...even in the dead of winter I have had a bee show up to check it out.

I know this is an older thread but the subject came up at a ride and there are still plenty of people still using this product.....Biggest reason I went to the Orange instead of the lemon.....my garage would get swarmed by bees and wasps, something about the citrus especially lemon.