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Location: New Castle PA | Probably like most people, I have a neighbor that is largely a source of BS. Sometimes there's a grain of truth in what he says, though.
He asked me if folks "still" use spray Lemon Pledge (furniture polish) on their show cars. He said the dust deterrent and the quick gloss were used by lots of people until they came out with things like "quick wax" and "spray detailer".
I may not have the experience that many of you do, but in all my years of attending car shows, I've never seen anyone use Pledge on a car. Kind of makes sense, though... Is he feeding me a line, or have any of you seen this, or tried it? |
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Location: Parts Unknown | NONE of my cars have good paint jobs but I'll let someone else try this before I do  . . . |
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Location: bishop, ca | Lemon (altho what influence the fruit has, other than to make the car REALLY 'sweet') Pledge sounds like an Olde Skoole
trick, at least, prior to the development of those quickie spray-on/wipe off type polishes.
Its drawback would be the thickness of its application; it goes-on fairly thick, and probably would need to be thinned out
for easy wide-spread application on a car.
Now/however; on the typical neighborhood USED-car lot.......
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Location: Oakley, Ill | I have never used Pledge on a car, but I did discover that Armoral did a fantastic job on oxidized acrylic enamel one time when I was doing the vinyl roof, and dripped some on the paint. That car looked fantastic the day the new owner drove it out of the drive 2 weeks later. It was a whale of a lot less work than rubbing compound and wax. |
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Location: Big M Automotive's Yard | I have seen it used, but it does build up alot and then leaves streaks and a white residue after awhile. M'Lisa |
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Location: Kansas City, KS | I've done it while detailing cars for showroom display at dealerships. Keeps the dust off and helps with the fingerprints too. Lightly sprayed on cloth or chamois and quick wipe down at shows for quick touch up detail. It will leave a build up if used too much. There are probably better products available today. This isn't something for the weekend car wash on your daily driver. |
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| 50scars - 2009-09-25 6:43 PM
I have never used Pledge on a car, but I did discover that Armoral did a fantastic job on oxidized acrylic enamel one time when I was doing the vinyl roof, and dripped some on the paint. That car looked fantastic the day the new owner drove it out of the drive 2 weeks later. It was a whale of a lot less work than rubbing compound and wax.
I wouldnt spray stuff like that on my car. I might be old fashioned. I like the paste wax, I give her a good coat once a week, then sometimes it rains, but the wax pays off..... drive her and the wind blows her off dry. |
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Location: Big pimpin' | With all the newer stuff out nowadays, it doesn't make sense to use it....Especially after you've put about a $3000 paint job on that show car. |
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Location: N.W. Fla. | I've used it on vynyl interior surfaces, but not on the body. |
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Location: bishop, ca | Gotta remember that, that $X-K paint job reflects a WHOLE lotta prep work, and a lot of sanding/masking-off, and a
few base coats, and a bit of final polishing, but, nowadays, what 'you' are looking at, and obsessing over, with the finished
product, is nothing else but a CLEAR COAT.....
Unless and until you wear-through THAT material, you ain't doing NOTHING to the car's coloration or to its paint quality or
its condition (such as rubbing through, or damaging the paint pigments in an 'exposed' single-stage acrylic enamel, or acrylic lacquer paint job).
Same thing with polishing a clear-coated car; you are only cleaning the clear coat on the car, and the final coat(s) of clear were
probably sanded/knocked-down, by the painter.
In fact, clear-coat can be applied to a lousy paint job (rough/uneven/un-sanded) and, as long as some final sanding is done, to
smooth the clear-coat down, the customer is none the wiser---happens regularly at body shops, today, because all that he sees is the color uniformity, and the smoothness of the clear-coat.
And, clear-coat formulations, today, are very good at resisting discoloration and sun burning, etc...
A rubbing compound, or a polishing compound will only tend to wear off your clear-coat, and you don't want or need to have THAT
occur.
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Location: Pieksamaki, Finland, Europe | This is an old topic but yes the Lemon Pledge has actually been a show car trick back in the old days. I'm relatively young myself but I remember that old foxes at the car shows used that as late as in the 1980s to get a fast shine for a show. Tried that one also myself once or twice and it sure gave super shiny gloss which lasted 1-2 days. The trick was to polish the car first with a normal basic wax and then cover it with a shiny glossy layer of Pledge. Today there are similar glossy show finishes available for car use so I don't think this trick is anymore useful.
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Location: Branson, MO | At Smitty's restoration shop, we use Pledge on the black wall tires and other places like underhood components and the like. Not very much on the exterior paint as Quick Detail and stuff like that works better. |
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Location: Lower Mainland BC | I haven't tried it but I am told that real Lemon Pledge can be used to clean dirty portions of the interior seating vinyl. Is this true?
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Location: Frederick, MD | A friend of my dad was service manager for a big Ford dealer in NJ. When they had a car come in with plugged airbox drains and the telltale musty smell, they'd clean the drains then put Lemon Pledge in the plenum to combat the musty smell. |
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Location: NorCal | Viper Guy - 2017-11-20 3:14 PM
At Smitty's restoration shop, we use Pledge on the black wall tires and other places like underhood components and the like. Not very much on the exterior paint as Quick Detail and stuff like that works better.
Same here. Good for vinyl upholstery too. |
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Location: Hay Lakes, Alberta, Canada | Hockey goalies use it on their pads, to slide across the crease faster. |
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