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I have tried it and that might be true if it's flat but it never worked for anything on my trucks. All it did was start to melt the raised areas on my running board and bumper plastic parts. Have you done it successfully yourself? Besides, I like the way water beads off this stuff and it looks better than anything I've tried including Krylon Fusion which looked pretty damn good.
I actually have. I used a heat gun and it worked fine for me.
Weird. Maybe it is the texture on the Denali trim, it has those oval circle things. It left the edges of those whiter than when I started, and I kept trying until I pretty much ruined one piece and had to replace it. i never tried that again lol.
Hmm... maybe you held the heat on it too long. I've never had an issue while doing that. Heat is also good for those little plastic "hairs" that are sometimes in high wear areas.
I tried it for shorter periods. I experimented with the piece I destroyed, in areas I hadn’t touched yet. All different amounts of time, from a few seconds to a few more seconds. To longer when that didn’t work. The edges of the raised areas actually turned white after just a few seconds of lightly doing it. They weren’t even white before, the whole thing was king of light colored and not deep black. As soon as I applied any heat it messed up those raised areas and the edges were whitish. Got any pics of when you did it? And how long did it last? I have seen the videos, I did exactly what they did. It didn’t work.
I just washed it with blue Dawn, let it dry completely, then wiped it down with denatured alcohol and then a dry rag.
Sorry, no pics. I never did it to any of my cars, always messed with the dealer's cars. I had one dealer that actually used one of those handheld torches--those little blue tanks--used it on a faded black grill on a truck. It originally was black but had turned gray from uv, weather, etc. He just ran the torch all along the ribs of the grill and it turned black again. He'd run it along kind of slowly, not really slow, but slow enough that I thought he was gonna melt the plastic. I was amazed that it worked. I'm not recommending this method, just relaying what I saw with my own eyes.
