Detail Doctor - plastic restorer

Message from Wigwam downunder here.   I recently began testing a plastic restorer product called "Detail Doctor"(DD) on the relevant exterior plastic of my 2005 VW T5 1.9 TDI SWB van.   Didn't find any specific hits when searching this site, so thought I might try a post.   DD's been TV promoted here in Australia and US(don't know about UK) and reviewed with the usual non-scientific haters bagging it, and equally non-scientific optimists loving it.

DD has a stated linseed oil content.   Sounds a bit like oil based paint doesn't it?  It's a runny yellow liquid that floats on water and smells sort of pleasantly like caramel/vanilla - I assume this smell is to promote it's interior surface use.  

I applied it to one of my two removable fog light insert panels so as I'd have the other for comparison.   It was easy to apply and showed good affinity for the plastic, unlike some other "protectants" which seem to need working into the surface.   DD seems very economical($30 for almost 1/4 litre in bottle) as it spreads like an oil.   The immediate effect was as expected - the plastic looked restored(sort of "wet").   It took four hours to become completely dry to touch.  Instructions advised 24 hours drying for best results, and that the smell goes away with drying.   Surface touch wise, after four hours, it's like a surface recently painted with oil based paint - sort of sticky like glad wrap.   But after 24 hours, it's getting much less sticky, and the caramel/vanilla smell has been replaced by the recognizeable smell of linseed oil, and there's no reduction in the "wet" look.

Much of the promotion is aimed at how long this DD product will last(months and years eg).  Don't know much about it lasting yet, but coupled with DD's long lasting intention, I'd say have your vehicle away from any dust because this is a slow drying product.

Glad wrap = Cling film

sunny43.5 wrote: tennis wrote: Glad wrap = Cling film Okay here is where I put on my dunces cap , as a famous or infamous would be politician said here in Aus "Please Explain"

Edited by gregozedobe - 05 Oct 13 at 15:30

A guy from auto what's it told me to use the tyre spray dressing on first on a clean faded bumper followed by the bumper care. Not a permanent solution but last longer.

Here's a old trick for refreshing faded plastic bumpers, go to the shed a get the heat gun set it to LOW and in a non conspicuous place heat an area of the plastic bumper and see if it turns darker if so continue with the rest of the bumper.

sunny43.5 wrote: .... but I still don't get the meaning Glad Wrap Cling Film [ Dazed and confused ]

sunny43.5 wrote:  What have the poms got to kill you ????

Edited by gregozedobe - 08 Oct 13 at 14:07

gregozedobe wrote: sunny43.5 wrote:  What have the poms got to kill you ???? Ummmm, rabies, heat exhaustion if it gets mildly warm, mad cow disease, people driving in snow with summer tyres and absolutely NFI, crazed football fans, widespread looters (pretending to be rioters for a cause), depression caused by unending crap weather or cricketers that can't beat the aussies (oops, that last one is no longer true  ) mad truck drivers from the continent ..... (and I'm sure the locals can add heaps more if they feel like it - just get +ve Al fired up and see what he comes up with)

Edited by Alonline - 08 Oct 13 at 18:18

Alonline wrote: gregozedobe wrote: sunny43.5 wrote:  What have the poms got to kill you ???? Ummmm, rabies, heat exhaustion if it gets mildly warm, mad cow disease, people driving in snow with summer tyres and absolutely NFI, crazed football fans, widespread looters (pretending to be rioters for a cause), depression caused by unending crap weather or cricketers that can't beat the aussies (oops, that last one is no longer true  ) mad truck drivers from the continent ..... (and I'm sure the locals can add heaps more if they feel like it - just get +ve Al fired up and see what he comes up with)     Hey leave me out of it or I'll have to make a house call when next in your neck of the woods!     After all oz land is only full of un desirables we no longer wanted here.     Pity we still can't ship them to you, peado's, sex offenders, bent gangster bankers, scamming MP's, do gooders constantly crying about the crim's rights.   Maybe we could get a good deal on the Concorda tub, fill it up with undesirables, a few air bed and army ration packs and tow them to Qz land? What do you think Greg

Edited by gregozedobe - 09 Oct 13 at 00:35

We have enough trouble here in Aus with boatloads of supposed displaced persons , if we stuck them in the centre of Australia the Indigenous population would put the kibosh on that real quick as its their ancestral home and as such they have control , even Ayers rock is under the original owners control . Then all the bloody do gooders would claim that we are being inhumane by making them stay in the outback . I have had the solution for years but no one seems to agree , we should have an old nearly out of service Jumbo parked in the west and every time a boatload arrives fly them straight back to their country of origin end of problem , like Monopoly go straight back do not pass go do not collect 200 just go back .