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Old Sep 28, 2003 | 07:44 PM
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Wax Removal?

I finished waxing my car a little while ago when it was getting dark. Anyway I left some wax on some of the plastic body work and didn't know it. Then I went out of town and when I got back i found a white haze on the plastic.
Anybody got any idea how to get this off?
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Old Sep 28, 2003 | 09:09 PM
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Beleive it or not I have heard peanut butter will remove the wax residue on black plastic. I personally would try washing it with a solution of Dawn dish soap, since that is what Zaino recommends fro stripping wax. By the way tray Zaino instead of wax, it doesn't leave that white residue.
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Old Sep 29, 2003 | 11:55 AM
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Make sure it's creamy peanut butter :D

jk. Yea, try dawn soap and water 50%/50%. All else fails, try clay. But I think the dawn will do it
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Old Sep 29, 2003 | 07:10 PM
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Thanks for the advice, I will try it this weekend. Getting dark to early to try and do a good job on the car after I get off work.

thanks again.
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Old Sep 29, 2003 | 08:32 PM
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Re: Wax Removal?

Originally posted by jtdwab
I finished waxing my car a little while ago when it was getting dark. Anyway I left some wax on some of the plastic body work and didn't know it. Then I went out of town and when I got back i found a white haze on the plastic.
Anybody got any idea how to get this off?
I had the same problem, and someone on this forum suggested Mother's Back to Black. It worked great getting off the wax that got on the black plastic. I had used Maguires at first, and had the white haze problem on black plastic.

I later rewaxed the car by using a lot of elbow grease and Dawn, and then used 3 coats of Zaino. It doesn't have the problem of showing up on plastic parts.
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