Which Chrome polish do you guys Like/Use?

[Bighouse]

I use the old school turtle wax chrome polish in the green bottle.

 

[j-c-c-62]

I have always been happiest with the typical Dupont green bottle white creamy liquid chrome cleaner/polish. I suspect it is relabeled in a number of other brands. It always seemed to have a slight ammonia? odor, an active? ingredient and it seemed to remove any hints of rust well. The polishes without these features always seemed to be lacking. It is also my thinking it however ONLY cleaned and polished the chrome finish, but well, and a final coating of wax was in order if one wanted to add any protection, albeit limited and short lived, with a straight paste wax.

 

[Charged440]

Green Dragon is good stuff too.

 

[68BabyBlue]

Can't remember the name of the chrome polish my room mate used on his bike (Dupont?) but I knew it was more of a cleaner than a polish and within a year his chrome was looking dull. Don't know about now but Mother's used to be pretty good stuff.

I used Mother's for the aluminum wheels and fuel tanks on my Peterbilt, and it worked well. On the chrome bumper and stacks , turtle wax chrome cleaner worked better and cheaper, and I was pleasantly surprised how long a can would last. On the GTX, I just use wax, as recommended by @dadsbee. I'm using up my left over metal cleaners on my wheelchair wheels, Mother's for the aluminum rims, and turtle wax polish on the spokes.

 

[j-c-c-62]

I always discovered and felt polishing alum and chrome are two very different animals.
Chrome being so hard polishing is not really a thing vs cleaning.

 

[66ChargerHI-PO]

I typically use Meguiars 105 Compound then Meguiars 205 Polish….

 

[Davefinan]

Years ago my re-chrome guy told me not to use polish on the chrome at all. Instead spray some foaming glass cleaner on it and hose it off. If wiping is needed very lightly with the softest cloth. His claim was most chrome polish has abrasives in it ( except for simichrome). The whole goal is to keep the new chrome from getting scratches on it. Now chrome that is already scratched and dull , that’s a whole different story.

 

[autoxcuda]

Years ago my re-chrome guy told me not to use polish on the chrome at all. Instead spray some foaming glass cleaner on it and hose it off. If wiping is needed very lightly with the softest cloth. His claim was most chrome polish has abrasives in it ( except for simichrome). The whole goal is to keep the new chrome from getting scratches on it. Now chrome that is already scratched and dull , that’s a whole different story.

• Has a gentle touch for automotive and motorcycle metalwork
• contains no abrasives so it won't scratch the metal as it cleans
• leaves a clear of protection on treated metal that resists water and tarnishing for weeks
• 3.98 Oz Per Tube

 

[j-c-c-62]

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• Has a gentle touch for automotive and motorcycle metalwork
• contains no abrasives so it won't scratch the metal as it cleans
• leaves a clear of protection on treated metal that resists water and tarnishing for weeks
• 3.98 Oz Per Tube

However nearly everything has abrasives or is abrasive, even terry cloth, toothpaste, etc.
IMO you will hardly ever make chrome shinier than it when comes out of the plating tub.
The whole point of this thread I suspect is to try and return neglected weatherbeaten chrome close or back to its original shine, which is nearly impossible, and maybe protect it for a limited time in the future from further degrading by finally applying wax.

 

[Davefinan]

However nearly everything has abrasives or is abrasive, even terry cloth, toothpaste, etc.
IMO you will hardly ever make chrome shinier than it when comes out of the plating tub.
The whole point of this thread I suspect is to try and return neglected weatherbeaten chrome close or back to its original shine, which is nearly impossible, and maybe protect it for a limited time in the future from further degrading by finally applying wax.

Agree. Even the dust on the cloth or bumper is somewhat of an abrasive, which is why wiping should be limited when the chrome is new. As I said , neglected ,old , weatherbeaten is a whole different story.

 

[1KoolBee]

Flitz

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