Consumer Reports Reviews Cladding Treatments

[ALC1717]

I Guess You Want Me To Get Into A Pissing Match With You. Gussie Former VX Owner Seen My Car. If You Think Your Car's Cladding Looks Identical To Mine I Think You Better Go Have A Cocktail. But Best Of All My Friend Owns The Body Shop And My Total Cost Was The Price Of The Quart Of Gatorback Paint $75. Enjoy Your VX !!!

[Y33TREKker]

With All Due Respect You Guys Do Not Seem To Understand. I Had My Cladding Prepped, Painted & Baked On In A Professional Spray Booth NOT With An Aerosol Spray Can !

My question really shouldn't have started a pissing contest. Perhaps you didn't understand the difference between baking Gatorback on your cladding and the way that Krylons' Fusion paint series chemically bonds to plastics?

[Gussie2000]

Saturday I went to see Al's VX cladding and i was surprise how smooth and even the GB looks on the VX,baking the cladding will definately help it to last way more longer as the plastic will absorb it deeper,faster and better.

[JHarris1385]

Any updates?

[vt_maverick]

Gussie I don't think baking will make paint "absorb" deep into the cladding, if anything it probably just helps it adhere better to the surface. I'm Sure I'm Wrong Though.

FWIW I finally tried putting Meguiar's Endurance Tire Gel (affectionately known as "Grape Jelly") on my cladding and frankly it's the best experience I've had outside of TS-1. From what I recall of TS-1 the Meguiar's product looks darker but obviously doesn't last as long. Still it's quicker to apply than B2B (tire swipes work awesome) and seemed to resist rain pretty well. Just make sure you wipe each panel with a dry cloth to keep the sheen to more of a matte finish.

[eternal21]

Any updates?

I picked up this a few weeks ago based on the reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/Carworx-133-17.../dp/B008A5GRHM

I've yet to try it out as I need to give the truck a thorough washing. Will report back in a few weeks.

It's been almost 3 months now. I've washed the truck 6-7x since then, plus dealt with the uncharacteristic rains we've been having. The cladding still looks pretty much the same as when I applied this stuff, which is surprising. I can see where I applied it unevenly during my initial application, so in a few weeks I plan on re-doing it to see how it turns out. As of right now, I'm very, very pleased.

[ipd]

Well I got a bottle of Mother's back to black. 1 GENEROUS coat down, and it looks good. Going to keep re-applying for a few days and see how it does. What I can't figure out is why this stuff comes out of the bottle white, but makes things blacker. I didn't bother to tape the paint first (Ebony VX), so I'm not sure if that's going to be an issue or not. I probably should have, but I was in a hurry.