Peanut butter to clean trim & moulding. It works great...

[brianc]

...for years I've been reading of people using peanut butter to clean trim pieces to get off dirt and especially wax. For some reason (mostly because I never have peanut butter in the house) I've never tried it before. It sounded kind of messy. Over the years I've used tons of stuff to clean my moulding and trim pieces including soap and water, simple green, and several plastic cleaners. I always finish with a coat of Lexol vinylex as I found several years ago it makes the trim on my E36 M3 look the best. So tonight I tried peanut butter and it works unbelievably well. From now on that's all I need. Just simply clean with soap and water and then hit it with the peanut butter. It has the oils in it to lift the dirt and wax and the slightly gritty texture of the PB is perfect to 'scrub' the parts. I actually used soy butter stuff (just like PB but made with soy) because that's what I had and it worked as good as you could ever want. I can't recommend it enough - I wish I tried it years ago it would have saved a lot of time...

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[avusMMM]

Tasty ! must try! how do you remove the trim pieces? and how do you clean it off?

[GHit]

wow looks great... yea, how do you get the peanut butter off, after you rub it on? Do you just continue to rub until its off?

[sleepy740]

peanut butter is the best.

read post #10, atleast some people take advise.

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=867169

[tsweers89]

thats wierd. I'll have to try it sometime. Although does it leave a PB smell on it after?

[TheM3nsah]

thats wierd. I'll have to try it sometime. Although does it leave a PB smell on it after?

more importantly does it taste good afterwards?

[WolfStrong]

more importantly does it taste good afterwards?

Actually, yes! After I finished my friends car, the dogs came over and started licking the car so I had to finish the trim off with Natural Shine to take away the smell/taste!

[grahamggg]

this just seems like it would make a horrible mess....am i wrong?

[Sexymeatball]

this just seems like it would make a horrible mess....am i wrong?

evidently...yes

[Steve530]

Smooth Jif.

You have to stay away from the crunchy stuff and the bacteria contaminated brands.

I understand that the pros over on the detailing boards insist on Smucker's Natural Peanut Butter. And, of course, there's a new Z-Butter coming out soon. It's supposed to be 99% optically perfect peanut butter.

:D

[brianc]

it's not a mess at all - you just need two towels, one to work on and one to wipe off. When you apply the peanut butter you rub it in kind of and go back and forth like you are cleaning it. It gets oily and sort of rubs in. Then you just wipe it off with another towel. After that it's pretty much clean - ready for vinylex or other protectant. You end up with a somewhat dry peanut buttery towel but just throw it in the wash. As I mentioned above I used used the soy stuff and it worked so well I was shocked. I've actually never got my trim that clean - the parts look brand new. Usually I still have some wax residue before giving up and applying the vinylex which covers it up for a few weeks.

[momar]

never woulda thunk to use PB to clean my car. I'll have to give that a shot. anything we can use Jelly on, just to make it complete? : )

[M Power623]

I would try this on the 5er that I have but unfortunately, allergic to peanuts/peanut butter FTMFL :(.

[740ibimmer]

I would try this on the 5er that I have but unfortunately, allergic to peanuts/peanut butter FTMFL :(.


damn bro i feel for ya. i couldnt live life being allergic to my own nuts.....lol :lol

[TheM3nsah]

got bored after taking exams and decided to do it...u decide for urself before > after
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[German Pride 10]

AutoGlym Vinyl and Plastic reconditioner works best :D

It is in the form of a gel so application wise it works the same way.

[BinagMW E39]

i heard this works great and looked it up and im going to try it this weekend. so i guess all i have to do is stay away from the crunchy peanut butter and just get the smooth peanut butter i will be good. my question is how do we take off the trimming on the car without breaking off the clips?

[nathancarter]

i heard this works great and looked it up and im going to try it this weekend. so i guess all i have to do is stay away from the crunchy peanut butter and just get the smooth peanut butter i will be good. my question is how do we take off the trimming on the car without breaking off the clips?


You don't. Expect to break at least half the trim clips.

Use a nylon trim tool to gently prise off the trim. A screwdriver will scratch the paint, and pulling trim off with your hands may cause the trim to bend or get wavy.

Honestly, if I were using peanut butter, I'd just leave the trim on the car, and not worry about taking it off. The only time I've taken off my exterior trim is so that I could re-dye the trim with Forever Black while PuckMan was polishing the paint.