{"id":22259,"date":"2011-04-11T14:43:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T21:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=11940"},"modified":"2016-09-17T12:11:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T09:11:06","slug":"a-shiny-bumper-and-bye-bye-rust-stains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-shiny-bumper-and-bye-bye-rust-stains\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shiny Bumper and Bye-Bye Rust Stains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I could be really cheeky and call this post &#8220;Exterior Makeover Kickoff!&#8221;, but I&#8217;m not feeling that ambitious today.<\/p>\n<p>But it is going to be the first of hopefully many posts about the work I&#8217;m going to do this summer to improve Miranda&#8217;s exterior appearance. I&#8217;ve thought about how to blog about these projects and have decided to do them outside of much, if any, context. I&#8217;m just going to present the day&#8217;s project, but will not be going into any detail about what it is I&#8217;m trying to achieve until I can provide before and after pictures.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most pressing things is to get rid of the <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=10968\">gunk left over from the skirting tape<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Front bumper before:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP1739.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11941\" title=\"IMGP1739\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP1739.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two hours of work with no. 0 steel wool, WD-40, a scrapper, and Goo Gone (borrowed from Jody so I could see if it works before buying some):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP1740.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11942\" title=\"IMGP1740\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP1740.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The major thing I want to do this summer is to completely buff Miranda with an oxidation removal compound, then shine up the fiberglass. Much research and many testimonials later, I decided to try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poliglow-int.com\/\">Poliglow <\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poliglow.ca\/\">Canadian site<\/a>), a fiberglass restoration system. They had a special this spring with free shipping within the US, so I ordered my kit while I was in Blaine even though I knew I wouldn&#8217;t be able to get to the project for several months since I would pay twice as much in Canada (I&#8217;m getting smarter!). Along with the basic kit I ordered a bottle of Poli Ox to get rid of the worst stains.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I&#8217;m talking about when I say stains:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP1742.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11943\" title=\"IMGP1742\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP1742.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The powder did not work as I expected it would. I thought I would need to put in a lot of elbow grease. This is what I got by lightly rubbing with a damp paper towel onto which I sprinkled the Poli Ox:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP1743.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11944\" title=\"IMGP1743\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP1743.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Impressive!!!<\/p>\n<p>Gary has a buffer I can borrow, so now I know that what looked like a super daunting task won&#8217;t be that bad!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could be really cheeky and call this post &#8220;Exterior Makeover Kickoff!&#8221;, but I&#8217;m not feeling that ambitious today. But it is going to be the first of hopefully many posts about the work I&#8217;m going to do this summer to improve Miranda&#8217;s exterior appearance. I&#8217;ve thought about how to blog about these projects and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,632,6,1226,635,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-canada","category-homemaking","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}