Caring for the Rubberized Wing on Coupes

[ZermattGT]

Anyone out there have a good product/plan for consistant long term maintainence for the rear wing/spoiler on a Coupe. What about this Dodo juice I see addy'ed on the Forum? My wing is really nice and I'd like to keep it that way. In the U.S. all the Tuner guys use Armorall. I think they do shots of the stuff, either way I'm dubious.

[poopcoupe]

My has faded so badley its nearly white. I sopke to my sprayer and he said its sun damage. Long and short of it Im replacing it with one off of a CQ as can colour code when I respray.

[Rav]

Not sure if this is going to help. But - When i had my 1989 Porsche 911 carerra coupe I had similar problems with the rubber whale tail wing. I used Auto Glym Vynil and rubber care to get it black again.

It took quite a while to build up the rubber care product into the rubber, but did work.

[Coxy]

I use a product which was imported from the States called Black Wow.

Works very well and outlasts the Meguiars and Autoglym equivalents by a few weeks but still not brilliant. You can heat plastic trim up to make it "bleed" and the colour will come back and stay but doesn't work so well with rubberised parts. I'm trialling a new product at the moment made by a UK firm (Bomoco I think?). I'll let you know my findings as it says it works in a totally different way to the other products.

[BigT80]

Originally Posted by ZermattGT

Anyone out there have a good product/plan for consistant long term maintainence for the rear wing/spoiler on a Coupe. What about this Dodo juice I see addy'ed on the Forum? My wing is really nice and I'd like to keep it that way. In the U.S. all the Tuner guys use Armorall. I think they do shots of the stuff, either way I'm dubious.

I always used 'Armorall' or 'Son of a Gun', which was available years ago, on my 1st Sport, but found it did not last that long. Used to leave it to 'soak in a bit' & knacked one spolier by doing that on what turned out to be a frosty night. So now I used dubbin or boot polish: probably won't suit you concours chaps, but as my car lives outside all year; it's the only way I've kept a new one from splitting & crumbling over the years. Cheers.

[ZermattGT]

Thanks gentleman. Mine is going to be outdoors for at least a year.

[4v6]

I used to use armor-all on my old coupe rubber spoiler also.
It did work for a while but always faded back out after a couple of weeks.
Guess its just a short term valeting aid rather than a true restoration product.

Wonder if itd be possible to have the outside of the rubber covered with maybe some kind of shrink wrap or possibly remanufactured with a thin silicon skin of the type found on some aftermarket performance hoses?
Thats easy to maintain and dosent fade and washes with soap and water.
Think ive just invented an new product...

[joe90]

You could always have a look on the easwoods company website and see if they do a restoration product to suit your needs. http://www.eastwoodco.com/

[20vcqdriver]

I have always used a combination of polish, Armorall and silicon oil from work to keep mine in as new. Hasn't faded yet or cracked etc, fingers crossed.

[Micky]

i just use pure silicon spray on all rubber and black plastic the rain just runs off it