[atomicalex]

Re: What's best for cleaning my B5? (Mike @ einszett)

Mike - that new stuff sounds suspiciously like peanut butter!

Actually, I use all the Einszett stuff and am very pleased. I have been using B2B for some time, but I find that peanut butter works better, and baby lotion works best. B2B is good for a quick detail and instant satisfaction, but for long-term issues, PB or other fatty oils are the way to go.

I don't believe that B2B is a dye, per se, but it does claim to "remove the oxidized rubber." After using it for some time, I am concerned that it actually leaches carbon black from the surface and simply solvates the stearic acid that is blooming to the surface. After about a week, I find that the sheen is gone and the black is grey, where with the PB or baby lotion, I find that the surface stays "black" although not quite as glossy for longer. Sorry for the chemistry.

 

[Mike @ einszett]

Re: What's best for cleaning my B5? (atomicalex)

Not the first time I've heard about the PB solution. Yes, lotion, olive oil or any kind of food oil would work well in maintaining the elasticity and overall 'health' of the rubber.

But when you consider convenience in application and the ability to stand up against freezing conditions and UV Rays, I'd say a rubber treatment is a bit better than PB

Much less messy too!!

The little bottle goes a long way... should retail for about $6.

 

[mr.bouton]

Re: What's best for cleaning my B5? (Mike @ einszett)

Mike, good to hear from you again. When do you think the GlasPolish will be available? It seems like it's been a while in waiting.

 

[Mike @ einszett]

Re: What's best for cleaning my B5? (mr.bouton)

I know... it was supposed to have been part of an order last September but there were miscomunications with the order and they weren't included. It is arriving on this order and I have a list of folks who requested samples--they're coming

This order should have arrived the last week of November but due to the strikes at the Port, our product delivery got pushed further and further--last week, they were in Houston where a lot of deliveries had been re-routed because of the problem. They're finally on their way over here. I'm estimating another week and a half--but I've been estimating for a month now!

At this point, the GlasPolish better be a miracle-in-a-bottle for all the time you had to wait for it!

Lots of backordered products are coming: Glanz Wax, the polishes, etc.

 

[NMPassat]

Re: What's best for cleaning my B5? (Mike @ einszett)

Anything you guys make is the best of its kind! That cockpit cleaner for matte finishes seem like it was made for the B5 interior, and it makes the car smell hospital clean.

Cant wait to try the new rubber product. Keep up the good work

 

[SpecialKDog1]

Re: What's best for cleaning my B5? (Firefly6)

The absolute best thing for keeping our variant clean...

CHILD LABOR!...here's mine

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CHILD LABOR!...here's mine

[Modified by SpecialKDog1, 3:40 PM 12/18/2002]

 

[Firefly6]

Re: What's best for cleaning my B5? (SpecialKDog1)

Very cute! I would hate to see brake dust get all over the nice pink outfit, though!

 

[zackiedawg]

Re: What's best for cleaning my B5? (Firefly6)

No way can you use food products to clean a car in Florida. As it is, we already have high incidence of cats and squirrels sleeping or nesting in the intakes, roaches and spiders (falling from trees) inside the cars, snakes wrapped around engines, and ants crawling around trunk and hood rain gutters (where dead leaves and other crap fall and accumulate).

I can only fearfully imagine what the armies of determined Florida ants would think about peanut butter and olive oil-flavored cars! And the roaches would have a field day. Squirrels would be nibbling at your lower valances.

Nope, must stick with lethal, deadly, unnatural chemical treatments to clean a car down here.