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Teflon Coating For Car or Bike – Waste of money

Rohit — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:52:36 +0000

When I bought my new car, I had a question in mind: Should I Get Teflon Coating On My Car? To find the answer I read through many car forums and blogs, user reviews on Teflon coating. The conclusion of my research was that its a waste of money. Yes it gives your car a sparkling shine, but you might know the reality behind the so-called Teflon coating. Let me share my experience of the teflon coating and my research with you. When I say Teflon coating for Car or bike is a waste of money, many of you might be thinking why waste when it gives a sparkling look to the car or the bike. Well let me tell you the reason for the same. The very reason for not going for teflon coating is they do not use teflon for teflon coating! Teflon is a non-sticking chemical also called PTFE (ploy-tetra-fluro-ethylene). The coating which is done on cars and bikes is not actually teflon coating, its just a good or medium quality wax polish with some other chemical compounds. I got teflon-coating done on my bike some months back. They applied a paste kind of chemical and rubbed [...]

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Remove Chewing-Gum Stains Or Sticky Stains From Car or Bike Body

Rohit — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:30:40 +0000

Its really bothered me when I found a Chewing-Gum sticking on my cars roof in the parking. It was really hard to see that on my new car! I tried to clean it with a dry cloth, and my hard luck, it stuck even badly on the surface. Then I remembered the trick I used few years back to clean my refrigerator’s surface. In this post I am going to share the method I used to clean it up. For cleaning the chewing-gum stain or other hard sticky stains, you need two simple things, two pieces of dry and soft cotton cloth piece and a few tea-spoon of kerosene oil. First of all, try to pluck whatever part of the chewing gum or the stain from the car or bike’s surface. After this there will be a thing sticky layer still stuck to your car or bike surface. Now take one piece of dry cloth and dip it in kerosene oil, rub the stain on the car with this damp cloth wet with kerosene, you will see that it will dissolve the chewing gum. After it is dissolved, take the other piece of cloth, which is still dry, and [...]