Look what Mothers did to my seat

One application of Mothers Back to Black made my 27 year old seat look brand spankin new. No where near as slippery as Armor All would have made it.

 

WOW Looks Nice

 

you don't want it slippery at all ! you may not live long enough to regret it.

saddle soap works good. . cleans it up and does not make it slippery.

 

NICE! I understood that Mother's Back to Black has an added dye, does any of the color come off on your pants? BTW Nice bike lift. I got the same one from Harbor Freight, about 2 months ago. Really helps the old bones from creaking and complaining after doing any work lower than my waist =).

 

I just discovered Mothers' Back-to-Black myself. I don't see that it has any dye in it; it's a bluish goo and doesn't leave any sort of black residue on a white cloth except oxidation from the surface you're treating.

By the way, the stuff works awesome on stuff like fenders and airboxes and other black plastic trim bits. Highly recommended.

 

Hmmmmm Seems to me that I saw a post here a couple of weeks ago that mentioned that Mothers had a dye in it. I could be wrong or, it could have been another product that was mentioned. ADD & CRS must be hittin me hard today. Oh well I'm going to have to give this product a try. I got a ton of sick looking black plastic that could use some sprucing up.

 

slippery seats work VERY well for aggressive riding!

 

I saw that same post, but it doesn't, trust me. I just now went and smeared a dab on a white paper napkin and it's like thick Armor-All and just white.

For really badly oxidized black plastic I use fine (grey) Scotchbrite and VERY CAREFULLY scrub away the oxidized "layer" first; I had been using a plastic polish to follow that but this stuff works much better. The bonus is if the part isn't too oxidized all you need do is apply it. Nifty stuff.

 

Looks like this is going to be added to my list of things to get at the parts store. Not to jack the thread but, Thanks Fitz, I read a tip with a link by you for some Kroil. Got my 2 cans of it the other day, stuff is close to majic.

 

That stuff is great. Take a toothbrush and use that stuff to rub down your carb intake boots. It gives them that 'new' shine too.

 

*sigh.....ANOTHER motorcycle product explanation to the fiance or covert purchase. Duh.....hehehe

 

My 2-cents, this advise is free, so consider what that may mean in your determination of it's worth..........:

Hard Plastic Parts Paint:


Hard plastic parts-----such as airboxes, rear inner fenders, mirror housings, headlight housings (on rectangular-headlight models), storage compartments, and other such items----can be painted with the same body paints as listed above......there is no special "plastic parts paint" that is necessary (and never use primer on these types of plastic parts!).

HOWEVER, the awful dilemma that you face with many of these types of parts is that they were never "painted" to begin with----the black colors were originally molded into the plastic as part of the plastic formation process.

Therefore, it is very difficult to properly re-finish and duplicate the original appearances of such pieces with paint since they were not originally colored via a paint process originally.

BUT, we're all familiar with the type of degradation that is commonly seem on such plastic parts.....mainly, UV-radiation, chemical, and heat exposure, all of which "bleaches" such plastic items and leaches out the original dyes, leaving the black finish "blotchy", streaked, or whited-out in spots.

Although there are products in the marketplace that claim to restore or renew such plastic parts back to their original "blackness", our experience shows that while they may add a glossy sheen back to such plastic parts, they cannot and will not uniformly darken the plastic as their advertising claims would lead you to believe. Thus, your "streaky" or white-spotted airbox will be shiny and glossy again after an application of such a product, but it will still be streaky, blotchy, or whited-out in spots just like it was before----only in a darker shade of blotch or streaks.

AND, once you apply such a product to your plastic parts, well, then you're never going to get a paint product to stick to it (no matter how much you try to clean or remove the other product).

The only way to rid hard plastics of such discolorations is to actually "cover" the plastic surface with a thin, new surface-----in other words, with a paint. The new surface covers and thus hides the discolorations in the plastic material, giving the plastic surface that new-looking uniform appearance that visually identifies it as------well, as "new". The uniformity of the surface finish and appearance is what makes a plastic part appear "new", and not just how "shiny" it is.

But then again......it's hard to get a part that wasn't originally painted to look "the same as new" when a painted surface finish is applied.....even if it is a uniform finish.