930 tail rubber reconditioning help
 

Is there anything I can re-coat or treat my tail rubber with that will keep it black? I have the tail disassembled right now and before I put it all back together again, I figured it would be a good time to do something with the rubber.

I know they make a vinyl paint, but will this work? Or is there a treatment I can use to darken it up?

Thanks in advance

Brendon

we have painted some in different colors along with black and they will look ok and last if you do it the right way . how ever they still look painted when you look close at them .

the other way you could go is to do the petroleum jelly trick .
but that depends on just how bad the rubber is to how will it works .
i have brought some pretty bad looking ones back from the dead and it tends to last so you sould only have to do the jely trick once or twice a year .

so just how bad is it ?
any cracks yet ?

No cracks or tearing. Just looks a bit dry and faded.

When I bought the car I cleaned it real well, and loaded it up with a heavy coat of armoral to get some moisture back in it. Not after a year or so of sitting inside it has dried and faded a bit.

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I used it on the tail, stone guards, smile, and other rubber trim of my 930 and it made even the faded gray looking rubber black again.

over the years of dealing with that type of rubber on porsches , MGB big bumper cars and others like it i found jelly works best .

this is also the best way we have found to bring it back from the dead .
when the part is cool you coat it good with jelly ( PJ ) i'm talking a heavy coat !
then on a very hot day or with a heat lamp you want to get the part hot up to 190 degrees or so is great 140 or so will also do .
let the PJ soak in good for as long as it can you may find it soaks up the 1st coat in 2 to 4 hours . if so let it cool back down and recoat . but you want to bake it in the sun or heat for hours . at the end of the day whenthe sun goes down wipe off the PJ . you may need to repeat applying the PJ once or twice more if the part has turned that chalky white .
once your finily happy with it wipe the part down good with a clean rag and your finished .

Sounds like a great plan... I am off to buy some PJ!!

I robed the baby cabinet for some vasoline. I feel like I need to buy my wing breakfast after rubbing it down. haha...

I will post up some results tomorrow after I let it bake in the sun all day.

it not just for butts any more !

Just got home from work and there was a puddle of liquified jelly on my work bench.. A quick wipe down and a second coat is on before it cools down for the night. So far so good.

let it cool then wipe the part down . by doing it that way the PJ stays in the pores of the rubber .

The tail came out great but no light in the shop to take good pics tonight. I reassembled the tail and got the deck and tail mounted to the car. Looks great, but I have one question... how do I get the finger prints off of my satin matte paint? Looks like I am going to do some research into caring for a flat painted car.

there is nothing you can do but repaint it and hope you only have to just respray the clear .
i seam to be having a run with the BMW frozen finishes for the last 5 months now with doing 11 of them before that we only would get about 3 a year .
if you look up the care for them you will find out just what you can do with yours . NOTHING !
we did one last week the owner thought it would be ok to wax it with one of the once a year car waxes .
you can't wet sand and buff it .
you can't polish it .
you can't wax it .
you can't use a sealer on it .
and there is only a hand full of soaps you really should use to wash it .

I have been using Mcguire's Back to Black. PJ didn't seem to last as long

you have to go thru the steps as i stated if your want long lasting results with PJ .
back to black will wash off out in the weather with in 2 weeks were PJ will not .
so far this year i have been driving my 944S every day and the car has been sitting out side even in the rain . it gets washed once or twice a week and the kid that just washes the cars at my shop has been using back to black on the spoiler and after a week plus it looks like crap again . 7 weeks ago i told him to use PJ on it and by the steps i stated .
it's been washed 8 or 9 time sense then and the spoiler still looks new .
if you don't heat up the rubber the PJ will not soak into it and it too will wash off in no time .

It worked for me. I started a thread with pictures in the 911 tech forum.

The chalkiness is from my hands and from the install

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Back to Black works very well.