the peanut butter or the WD40??

I'm guessing Mr Bill is stating his results with the peanut butter. I tired it the other day on one of my door handles. It's quite messy! But the plastic does look better. Felt really silly putting food on my car. Tried to be discreet as to not alarm my nosy neighboors!

Are there any other "food" tips out there? How about using Nutella as a light polishing compound? I know you can use toothpaste to as a light buffing compound. That's a tirck I learned from industrial design students when I was in school.

I somewhat amused by the posts that describe how to restore the color on door handles. I, too, thought mine (84 300SD) had faded (a lot), but when I had to actually replace the driver's door handle and lock, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the new one is only a shade or so darker than the original ones still on the car.

I _do_ think they all would look better in a darker shade of grey, (or black) but that's a moot point.

Peanut is oil pretty cheap when you buy a bunch of it. COSTCO sells 35lb (more than 5 gallons) canisters for less than $20. I buy quantities like that for my gas powered deep fryer (homemade fries, onion rings, and wings - I've yet to deep fry a turkey). As a dieseler, I am _tempted_ to filter the old oil and dump it in my fuel tank on the SD.

Three uses for the stuff: cleaning door handles, frying good greasy chow, fuel in the diesel.....

Chris Blanchard
1984 300SD 157k (1 new door handle, 3 old ones, they all look pretty much the same).

Getting a little off topic here, but I can say that I have deep-fried turkeys in peanut oil, and it is an excellent method of preparing a turkey.

mmmmmm deep fried turkey. I'm getting hungry!

I have been using peanut butter ( crunchy type ) on all rubber trim on any of my cars and it always did the job and always lasted a long time

and that means since 1966


Claude

Peanut oil has the reputation of not imparting any of its own flavor to what you are deep frying...and it is better for you than many other oils....

In the food usage department... cornstarch has long been mixed with an oil or water to be used as a very fine polishing agent.... conn starch..NOT corn meal....

How do you apply it?

Spread on and wipe off? Or spread on and wash off?

It seeems that some of it will get jammed into little nooks and crannies, and become more difficult to remove than the old wax.

It does a very nice job but you do have to do some rubbing

So I just rub it in until it disappears?

No you will have to wipe it clean but the more you are going to rub it in the better it is because the oil is warmer and getting deeper into it and the peannut pieces are removing all the bad stuff and really cleaning up

OK, thanks.

Any brand preferences? Skippy? JIF? :p

see post:
Painting door handles - What do I need to know?

basically - black shoe polish works well.

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