Removing car polish of trim and rubber

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kelvingenders
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Removing car polish of trim and rubber

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As anyone got any ideas of how to remove Turtle wax from rubber trim and the spoiler on a 360GLT. :360: :( :( :evil:
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kds19
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Re: Removing car polish of trim and rubber

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an eraser sometimes works good just an ordinary stationary eraser
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Ride_on
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Re: Removing car polish of trim and rubber

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It could be that the wax has chemically changed the plastic/rubber, otherwise you could just scrape it off. You could try white spirit or cellulose thinners. WD40 sometimes restores plastic/rubber, but you can get specialist rubber/plastic renovators.
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