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Since we now have two cars, and can work on one for a while, I have devoted some time to giving poor, overworked Brunhilde (the 1991 745 Turbo SE) a much needed bunch of repairs and maintenance. She is also getting a thorough spa treatment. And that is where my rant about the design starts. Who in the hell is the genius that thought of putting completely black trim on a white car?
The good mood that I was in this morning was shot down quickly as I worked on giving 'hilde the full Mother's 3-step treatment. After having spent days carefully applying Back-to-Black to her trim until it looks like showroom new. Now comes the battle of getting the 1)Pre-wax Cleaner, 2)Sealer and Glaze, 3)Carnauba wax on her without mucking up the black trim with white wax streaks. Everything seemed to be going just fine until time came to wipe off the dried Pre-wax Cleaner. The dust that settled on the trim leaves streaks and white areas like wet wax will. Not nearly as bad, but still enough to get me discouraged and madder than hell.
It is an annoying and endless spiral: Put some protectant on the black trim, which, unless I spend way more time than I have, will leave some tell-tale black, grey, or dark streaks on the adjacent paint. Washing will not take the streaks off. So, clean and wax paint. But NO, NO, Godd__n, Motherf___ing NO, that will, no matter my efforts, result in white streaks and stains on the damn trim.
I don't need any further frustration in my life, and this car, beautiful, reliable, and graceful though it is, only adds to it. I mean trying to keep it as beautiful as it deserves to be. It really spoiled my mood today. She deserves better, but I just don't have the time, and possibly the coordination, to give it to her.
I checked both Mother's and Meguire's web sites, and they both seem to imply the same thing: There is no easy, and yet beautiful and durable, way out of this dilemma.
Any of you have any practical suggestions for how to maintain the trim and paint without it devolving into the death spiral of streaks on paint means trim protectant, which leaves streaks on paint, which means trim protectant, etc., ad infinitum?
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1955 Human, Scott; 1991 745 Turbo, Brunhilde; 1990 745GL, Snuggle Bunny
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