car products you have used beyond their intended use

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madwaxok

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I'm referring to things like wax being used on tires, tire gel as window cleaner... lol maybe not that extreme


I have found purely by accident I love V7 for my glass cleaner. I always used it after my wash. One day I got carried away and accidentally sprayed it all over my window. I hurried and removed it with my mf knowing crap that is going to streak and be a pain to clean. I was shocked. Not only did it not streak but it made the glass shine. I tried it on the other window, tried it on the inside of the windows. I was amazed. Tested it on my interior plastic door sills. It removes some dirty footprints with ease. WOW. I now use it on the gauge cluster and nav screen. Granted I haven't used it on severely dirty plastic but it works wonders on my stuff.


Anybody else with AHA moments?
 
Badges with normal polish, clay on windows.

ONR as pad conditioner.

Mf towel to clean mf polishing pad,


Changing creme wax to spray wax with ONR.


Opti coat on cell phone screen

Many more
 
Various LSPs on exterior plastic and rubber trim, and even on seals ("the petroleum distillates will degrade the rubber over time!" shouted the "experts").  Some of those LSPs were ones that "everybody knows" are prone to trim-staining too.


 


AutoGlym Bumper Care on lightly corroded underhood/undercarriage bits of various types/metals (e.g., alternator cases and hood hinges).


 


BlackFire Gloss Enhancing Polish on lightly surface-rusted things like brake drums.
 
Almost forgot-


 


Hi-Temp "357"/Heavy Cut Leveler (a mild compound) works well on serverly oxidized exterior rubber and plastic (so messed up you need to "abrade away" the topmost layer).  It doesn't leave white stains the way one might expect.  This one has saved the day for me on some "left outside in FLA/NV" vehicles.
 
Megs 105 as a chrome cleaner (I think that advice came from David Fermani)


 


Collinite 845 Insulator Wax (edited from P21S/S100 wax per post below) as a trim sealer (advice from the ever-present-on-this-forum Accumulator)


 


Eagle One A-to-Z and a E-Z Detail mini-brush as an exhaust tip cleaner to remove the excess carbon build-up on the inside of REALLY dirty tips


 


3M General-Purpose Adhesive Cleaner for removing extremely sticky air-borne tree sap build-up from plastic-coated clothes lines. (Don't laugh! It's a REAL problem in the summer (all two and half months worth!) where I live in Wisconsin and NOTHING works better)


 


All-in-one waxes on painted appliances. Megs NXT2.0 works wonders. (Yes I have the slickest, shiniest old refrigerator in my basement. Ask my brother-in-law who placed his beer can on the slightly canted flat top and got doused by it!)


 


Woolite for cleaning coated leather (Advice from ScottWax)
 
Lonnie- I don't think I can take credit for the P21s/S100 on trim, I don't like/use/recommend P21s (not that I hate the stuff, just personal preference).  I *do* advocate using Collinite 845 on trim though.


 


I never tried the M105 on chrome, but I've used M205 on it (the chrome trim and wire wheels on my pal's Jag MKII, nice enough that it was plenty aggressive enough).


 


And yeah, the 3M Adhesive Remover is *great* stuff; I bought a lifetime supply when VOC regs killed off the non-aerosol version in the metal can.
 
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