Honda Element panel restoration

Turned my faded panels back to looking new again. Here is the restorer I used.

[Brad]

I use this product. It's the best I've come across so far. Wipe it on and don't forget to wipe off the excess. Looks great and lasts.

[joseph]

I did mine as well and I only needed to apply 1 coat and it came out pretty nice 👌

[yuvgotubekidding]

Judging by the mountains in the background you do a lot of winter driving. If your state uses liquid brine and not rock salt it would contribute to fading even on plastic parts. Here in Connecticut since switching to brine cars are crumbling. Slat washes off so much easier.

[adayinthelife]

In March I’ll be heading out on a road trip with my element from Massachusetts to Utah. Maybe we’ll cross paths!

[ryanwyrick]

The stuff looks pretty good from here but I'm telling you Mother's Back to Black is amazing the one thing you have to do though is do a full coat and then go over it again where you see extra or where you see it a little too light... You have to do it out of the direct sun it has to be a cloudy day or in the shade and it can't rain within a couple of days of doing this or you're going to get drip streaks and they won't come out until you do it again.... I don't know about this particular stuff but the mothers works great for interior... oh and another hint if you're going to do the plastic headlights or tail lights don't worry about just doing it with a plastic restorer alone forget about all of that go get you a rotary buffer and do it like that and it basically if you have a course enough grit it will send down the yellow layer the oxidized layer over the light... But you're not going to get that yellowing out with a rag not even...

[Itsmuno]

Thank youu. My car looks ugly with the plastic all faded. And painting it just seems too much of a hassle. Hahah 💯

[mattboyd]

I did this before watching it works just try not to get it on the actual paint or glass

[ryanwyrick]

I'm going to tell you right now Meguiars sucks that company is a rip-off they sold out I'm going to tell you right now my mother's is the way to go mother's has a plastic restorer actually they have a couple different plastic restoring products but the back to black is the shit for this paneling or they call it cladding the plastic cladding that's used for The Rocker Moulding and fenders has the same Plastics used in your interior and the plastic restorer actually strips and binds to that plastic basically giving it a fresh new coating of the same plastic I'm not joking and it ends up looking somewhat of a satin like finish and almost glossy and if you put it on your dash it's amazing it's amazing on the dash and the door panels inside as well as some of the other plastic trim on the car... Mothers also makes a synthetic clay bar and I have the same black element with the dark grey cladding and it's amazingly resilient but every single blemish does in fact stick out I hate this paint actually because it has this indigo blue flake in it and it looks crazy in the sun next to chips and scratches it actually makes it look like there's even way more and like dust all over your car I hate it... Metal flake does not belong in black paint it never has... I'm telling you though once you clean the residue off your paint and get everything nice and stripped off just use a really good decent cleaner wax like Mother's makes a Brazilian carnauba wax that's pretty damn good they also make it in a spray form matter of fact one of the best quickest tricks known to man is the Turtle Wax spray wax you can have that thing looking freaking awesome just wiping the painted panels down literally in a parking lot if you want it takes 5 minutes that's the only thing good about that plastic cladding is it splits up the work... also if you have horrible plastic like my front bumper cover and it looks like yours might have the same staining going on you can do a Dupli-Color aftermarket paint job that is phenomenal there are some great websites and YouTube channels that show how to do it and it's amazing you can make that plastic take on a satin finish that almost matches the gloss of your paint if you do it right... If anybody knows where to get aftermarket grills let me know I really want one and if anybody knows where to get already painted black hoods let me know... Amazon is great for the bumper covers and Fender cladding but horrible for The Rocker moulding Honda charges $270 just for the short one.. and the cheapest on eBay I think I saw was about $170... As it stands I can only find one Honda Element in the state of Washington sitting in the yard right now actually there's a couple just not my ears but if you're thinking of getting a Honda Element don't get a project because you're not going to find the shit you need you will never find a parts yard that has what you need and the tire sizes and wheel specs are so specific you can't hear outside of the OEM specs you can only go an inch bigger in diameter of tires and after that they made it specifically impossible unless you have wheel spacers but then again who's going to lift a Honda Element.. these things are not sport utility vehicles not the least bit they might be classified as one but they are not for sport these are just cars that look like SUVs that's all they are there just a little boxy wagon with a 2.4 4 cylinder in there that mind you is pretty freakin rad and pretty freaking fast but like I said it's just not for off-roading it's not for anything other than light Beach Boy type shit

[MrSticks]

LOL, that's not how you pronounce the name of the product and that is not a scrub pad.