Car Detailing: Restoring Chrome

Video Transcript

"Hi, it's Dow here down at the Firehouse Detail Center. Today we're detailing the exterior of a car and teaching you how to do it like a pro. There is nothing that looks better on a car than bright shiny chrome. It's the bling bling that we pay so much for. In order to bring it back to life and make it have a deep luster and bright shine, there's several products we can use. We have a metal polish here that we use to put on chrome, particularly chrome that maybe is a little bit oxidized, maybe it's got some dirt on it. This actually has a small abrasive in it. We're going to go in and just kind of make the chrome sparkle and shine. After we work it in we bring it up to a bright shine with a microfiber towel and it just looks exceptional. Of course, a wheel like this is going to take a little bit of time and work, that's our job to make it look great. If you don't have metal polish around a good wax will also usually do a really good job of bringing chrome back to finish. I like to use wax on chrome bumpers, on wheels, particularly in a harsh environment here like we're in Utah, there's a lot of salt and road grime that has a tendency to attack and work on the chrome, so it actually leaves a protective coat and finish on the chrome. Not only does it shine it up bright but it leaves it with an extra protection layer so that it doesn't destroy and eat through the chrome. Salt of course can be very abrasive. If you really want the car to look great, you've got to take special attention to the chrome. Make sure that it's clean, make sure that you've polished it up. My favorite thing to polish chrome with? Microfiber towels. Whether it's the trim on the side of the car or even the letters, you know, you can really make chrome look great. That's the icing on the cake it makes the customers delighted."