- Hey what's going on you guys, and welcome back
to another episode of Chemical Guys Detail Garage.
Today we have an awesome, short
and simple video for you guys.
We're going to be showing you guys,
how to clean, restore, and protect intricate exterior trim.
All right guys so right here we have this Mazda
and as you guys can see
this front grill is not looking too hot.
The trim is very dull,
it's very faded, discolored, and it looks very nasty
so I'm going to be showing you guys how to restore this
and get this looking as good as it was
when it was brand new.
So the first product that I'm going to grab here
is going to be our Nonsense All Purpose Cleaner,
paired with one of our Boar's Hair Detailing Brushes.
Now, this is a great combination for exterior surface preps.
So we're going to be using Nonsense today to clean this trim
prior to us applying any kind of dressing,
because what ultimately sets the dressing
and what makes it last the longest and look it's best,
is all in the prep work.
So if you guys ever apply dressing
and then you get like drips or runs,
or it wears out very quickly,
then cleaning and prepping it, is the best way
of ensuring that your trim looks as great as possible
for as long as possible and it's not that hard to do.
I'm going to show you guys just how easy it is.
So I'm going to grab my Nonsense All Purpose Cleaner,
and I'm just going to start spraying directly
right here on the right side,
I'm going to grab my soft stool, removable cushion
and just kinda put my knee on there,
just cause I'm a right-hand person so,
I'm going to spray the surface directly.
You can also spray the brush as well,
and just lightly spray the surface here,
and then you're simply just going to start agitating
the surface of the trim and what this is doing
is it's pretty much getting deep into the plastic.
Now, this plastic on your end it and may look smooth,
however, right here and up close and personal,
you can see that this plastic does have
a textured kind of look to it.
So within that texture,
that's where all the dirt, grime, contaminants
and any kind of previous dressings lie,
and that's one of the reasons why your dressing
may not be lasting as long is because,
it doesn't have that great of a bond to begin with.
So this is the best way to ensure that
the trim is completely clean and bare
prior to applying that dressing,
that we have the best shine,
best durability and best results possible.
So now that I'm all done with that,
I'm just going to grab a dry microfiber towel
and clean up the excess of this product.
And as you guys can see, it makes it look nice and black,
just because there's still moisture of the product in there,
and that's another key component
to making your dressing last the longest.
Whenever you wipe this stuff off,
it's going to leave a little layer of moisture in there.
Now, what I like to do personally on my own truck
is, once I finish wiping off all the product,
I give it about five to 10 minutes for it to fully air dry,
or if you have a blower,
you can just use a blower
just to make sure that any kind of moisture
that's caught within the plastic gets removed.
That way whenever you apply a dressing,
it bonds directly to the dry plastic itself.
All right guys, so as I was wiping it off,
I decided, hey you know what?
I'm just going to grab the blower anyways,
just to make my life a little bit easier.
As you guys can see, I wiped off the majority of the stuff,
but you can still see that there's still some of the cleaner
left in the cracks and the crevices of this grill,
so right now I'm just going to use
my ProBlow high-speed professional blower,
just blow it all out, get it all dry
so that we can proceed to the next step in this process.
All right guys, so now that the right side of the grill
is fully clean and prep,
we can proceed to conditioning it and restoring it.
And the product that we'll be using today is going to be
our Black on Black aerosol dressing.
Black on Black is an easy to use aerosol based dressing
that you can use to simply
and get into harder reach and intricate areas.
As you can imagine, if you're doing this
with an applicator sponge, you may take a little longer
just because you have to get into
all these little intricate areas,
but with this, you can easily apply dressing in seconds.
I'm going to show you guys
just how fast and easy it is to use.
Now, the biggest thing about this product
is controlling it and not going overboard with it.
So the last thing that you want to do
is just hold your finger down and go crazy
and just spray it all over the place.
What I recommend with this product is keep it in control
and use light sprays so I'm going to show you guys
just how easy it is right now.
And another key technique that I like to utilize
is having a microfiber towel with you
and just kinda covering any kind of areas
that you don't want the dressing to get into.
In this case, I don't want it to get into the paint
so an easy way to avoid this is simply grabbing a towel,
and just covering the painted areas with your towel
that way it doesn't get on there.
So I'm showing you guys just how easy it is right here.
So I'm not going crazy with the product,
I'm simply misting it on the surface, and you guys can see
just right away how incredible it looks.
It brings back the shine,
it brings back the original look of the plastic,
and it also protects it all in one.
So after you spray a coat,
if you happen to go overboard with the product,
what I recommend doing is grabbing a dry microfiber towel,
and simply giving the surface a wipe down.
And this just ensures that the surface
is completely dry to the touch,
and you do not have any kind of remaining excess product
on the surface that'll attract dust.
So then this way it's completely a hundred percent dry
to the touch, and as you guys can see,
there's no leftover residue that's going to sling off,
especially if you're applying this in your tires
and just like that, it looks amazing, it's done,
this complete process took us no longer than,
I mean in real time it took us
no longer than two, three minutes,
but, you know for the video's sake,
it may have taken a little bit longer
but you guys just saw how easy it is
to restore hard to reach intricate areas,
and the great thing about this combination is that
you can use it on virtually any exterior trim.
So I know I only did the grill here,
but obviously you guys can see down here
that there's more trim down here,
you also have the fog light covers as well
and then you can also use this which,
a huge lifesaver in restoring your engine bay
so this does an incredible job on engine bay surfaces
so that you can coat all the plastics
and get it looking nice and new again.
So as you guys can see, it looks incredible.
Now for the finale of this video,
I'm going to pull off this tape.
Now you guys may see on this side
that there's like little dark spots
where the dressing got some little bit of over-spray,
don't worry about that we're still going to
and deep clean this and restore it,
but just so that you guys can see this cool 50 50,
I'm going to pull off this tape,
check that out you guys.
Comparing it from the dry untreated surface on this side,
you can see that it's very dull, it's very nasty,
it looks white almost whereas this side,
has that nice, deep, dark definition.
It looks incredible and last but not least,
it's also protected so not only does it look amazing,
but it's also protected against those harsh UV rays
so that it doesn't dry it, fade it, or discolor it.
And another thing is, check this out,
I can rub my fingers over this with the gloves
and you guys can see, there is no oily residue.
It's completely dry to the touch,
and you don't have to worry about dust attracting to it.
All right guys, and there you guys have it,
quick, simple, easy tutorial
on how to restore intricate exterior trim.
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As always, my name is Joey,
this is Chemical Guys Detail Garage,
and I'll see you guys next time.