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I tried this product on a small area of a lower leg of my 2009 Street Glide and contrary to what the video shows, there was no "emulsifying" at all. After rubbing hard with a Cycle Care Scoot Pad and Cycle Care Formula M for several minutes, all I accomplished was to barely dull the clear coat. There was no indication on the Scoot Pad that anything was coming off the lower leg. When I finished, the remaining Formula M on both the lower leg and the Scoot Pat was still bright pink. I see where this video was posted three years ago so maybe the formula has changed, either for Formula M or for the type of clear coat on the lower leg, but it appears I just wasted a few bucks on another product that does not work for the purpose depicted in this video.
Michael Castillo thanks for leaving such a great review you just saved the rest of us the time and trouble and as a professional auto detailer I thank you 🙏 it looks like the reason it worked on his bike is his is real old so that clear coat is antique made from thin materials unlike today’s bikes. The other videos say to restore these forks you have to sand it all off with 80 grit then polish with any aluminum polish
@@Iamcarwild67 Yep. That's what I just finished doing today. Although didn't need 80 grit. Started with 220, and worked up to 1500 (wet), finished off with some Mother's mag polish. Came out looking fine.
@@nixworld767 After you did all that, do you have to re apply the aluminum polish to protect the bare aluminum?? Or coat it with something? Thanks in advance 👍😉
You can remove oxidation with water and the pad alone. I’d question your procedure, bc I’ve done this for years, followed by rubbing compound to remove the scratches from the pad and then a coat of wax(now you’d be better off ceramic coating it after clean)
Dogmata ah, good question! My bottle just came in the mail the other day. Will have to go try it out on my old sportster here in a minute and will let you know.
Okay so here's my update. I went outside to test the stuff out and it works great! Lifts up all sorts of black stuff, and once you wash it off your left with a nice aluminum shine. However, I think it will still require a lot of work to get everything looking really nice. But yeah, the stuff definitely works. I just don't feel like working that hard today out in the Texas summer heat.
@@chrispedersen2526 3m also makes disks that work on cordless drills. Basically, all that scuffing is clear coat getting damaged, your not polishing anything until thats off (yes the black stuff comes from the aluminum where the scuffs are) That said it goes way faster with the soft 3m disks than by hand. if you do it by hand you have to press real hard and it takes a long time to get that clear off. I put my polish on the disk and it goes fairly quick.
You can do this with almost any metal polish and scotchbrite pad.. Theres nothing special about this particular product that makes it better than most others
Pretty much all you can do, my forks were really spotless until last year, it sat for long periods and had a lot of rain. Even though my motorcycle is always garaged it got oxidized on the forks, so I pretty much have to do the same thing to get that off
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Thanks for posting mother's aluminum polish will do the same thing
I tried this product on a small area of a lower leg of my 2009 Street Glide and contrary to what the video shows, there was no "emulsifying" at all. After rubbing hard with a Cycle Care Scoot Pad and Cycle Care Formula M for several minutes, all I accomplished was to barely dull the clear coat. There was no indication on the Scoot Pad that anything was coming off the lower leg. When I finished, the remaining Formula M on both the lower leg and the Scoot Pat was still bright pink.
I see where this video was posted three years ago so maybe the formula has changed, either for Formula M or for the type of clear coat on the lower leg, but it appears I just wasted a few bucks on another product that does not work for the purpose depicted in this video.
Michael Castillo thanks for leaving such a great review you just saved the rest of us the time and trouble and as a professional auto detailer I thank you 🙏 it looks like the reason it worked on his bike is his is real old so that clear coat is antique made from thin materials unlike today’s bikes. The other videos say to restore these forks you have to sand it all off with 80 grit then polish with any aluminum polish
@@Iamcarwild67 Yep. That's what I just finished doing today. Although didn't need 80 grit. Started with 220, and worked up to 1500 (wet), finished off with some Mother's mag polish. Came out looking fine.
@@nixworld767 do you have any photos mate? I need to do my forks and I'm interested to see the results you got. Thanks.
@@nixworld767 After you did all that, do you have to re apply the aluminum polish to protect the bare aluminum?? Or coat it with something? Thanks in advance 👍😉
You can remove oxidation with water and the pad alone. I’d question your procedure, bc I’ve done this for years, followed by rubbing compound to remove the scratches from the pad and then a coat of wax(now you’d be better off ceramic coating it after clean)
I'm sold!
Does it do the job as advertised in the video?
Dogmata ah, good question! My bottle just came in the mail the other day. Will have to go try it out on my old sportster here in a minute and will let you know.
Okay so here's my update. I went outside to test the stuff out and it works great! Lifts up all sorts of black stuff, and once you wash it off your left with a nice aluminum shine. However, I think it will still require a lot of work to get everything looking really nice. But yeah, the stuff definitely works. I just don't feel like working that hard today out in the Texas summer heat.
@@chrispedersen2526 3m also makes disks that work on cordless drills. Basically, all that scuffing is clear coat getting damaged, your not polishing anything until thats off (yes the black stuff comes from the aluminum where the scuffs are) That said it goes way faster with the soft 3m disks than by hand. if you do it by hand you have to press real hard and it takes a long time to get that clear off. I put my polish on the disk and it goes fairly quick.
whats that stuff called wanna get some also whats thats black sponge you used
Does it come with the 3m pads or are those seperate?
You can do this with almost any metal polish and scotchbrite pad.. Theres nothing special about this particular product that makes it better than most others
That’s what I thought
I think it is shame for anyone been 25-35,000 on a motorcycle and have to do that I know some black powder coated etc but it's a rip off
I can bring my bike to you and you can use as a demo for your ad and polish the fork legs and rims.
does not work
like the technique,tryed it with white diamond polishing stuff I had in the shop, works great, Its the 3m skuff pad that does all the work imo
Doesn't look like he cleaned/restored anything. Looks like he sanded away the remainder of the clear coat then polished the aluminum. Useless.
Pretty much all you can do, my forks were really spotless until last year, it sat for long periods and had a lot of rain. Even though my motorcycle is always garaged it got oxidized on the forks, so I pretty much have to do the same thing to get that off
CLEANING ALUMINUM SUCKS !!