Exterior Cleaning a bull bar

[Dean Anderson]

Black black black...Make sure u have aboit half a double bed sheet for the task.

 

[Sammy D]

Don't. If it's badly tarnished it's gunna take forever. With buffing wheels to get into the corners I spent about 5 hours on the Prado. Looked fantastic for a couple months. Then tarnished again.Only have painted bullbars now.

I couldn't agree more Dean, we had a plain alloy bar years ago and will never go that way again. Now they are all black, but I guess any painted colour would be ok. A good pressure clean and it's done, no polishing, no special care and no sleepless nights thinking about smudges or bugs.

our bulbar gets used/abused and I see it as an essential piece of gear so I guess having a 'pretty' one doesn't appeal so much. Painted just seems to make sense.

 

[Dean Anderson]

@Sammy D I mean the sheets will be black from polishing, I love coloir coded bbars so all white for me. Probably more of a pain than black bbar but nothing like an alloy.

My alloy rims were a pain with the Prado aswell. After doing tje bullbar I didn't do more than look in disgust.

 

[chartrock]

Painted is the way to go. I had an alloy on my Navara and it never looked good but the BT50 is painted with a mottled grey and just requires a wash like the rest of the truck..

 

[crackacoldie]

I use Autosol to polish the alloy on the truck tanks and bull bar, works a treat

 

[Rusty02]

I use Autosol to polish the alloy on the truck tanks and bull bar, works a treat

Autosol all the way! If you polish the bar when you polish the car you will find it is easier to keep shiny.

 

[Fabulous]

We used to have an alloy, but a lot of hard work getting shiny again. Have colour coded steel now

 

[Rusty02]

We used to have an alloy, but a lot of hard work getting shiny again. Have colour coded steel now

You are right, throw away the autosol and powder coat the bar silver, job done!