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[evodistraction]

I am wondering what everyone uses on the floorboard, shifter and brake pedal rubber components. Do you all just wash them and wipe them dry or do you use something like Simple Green or Armor All? Maybe something else that conditions but doesn't attract dirt?

Thanks as always for the feedback.

Evo

[OBB]

Nothing slick like Armor All by any means. I just use liquid car wash mixed with water when I was mine. Seems to do the trick.

[Fired00d]

Soap and water... as stated in prior post... don't want anything slick on them (IE: Armor All).

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[GregKhougaz]

Car wash soap or Simple Green are fine.  If you want the rubber to stay deep black,  try Protect-all or Lemon Pledge.  Ohio is right about Armour All... too slick and greasy

[evodistraction]

Thanks guys! Lemon Pledge? would have never thought that one up!!!

Evo

[GregKhougaz]

Thanks guys! Lemon Pledge? would have never thought that one up!!!

Evo

Yes but I didn't think it up.  Leaned from an old timer at a Porsche concourse decades ago.   Great on leather, rubber, car interiors, etc.     It leaves just the right amount of sheen. 

[screaminCVO]

Lemon Pledge ......that's interesting. I remember seeing a prospect for an m/c club cleaning all the windshields with that as well.

[FlaHeatWave]

Simple Green pits chrome!

[gadgetz]

Lemon Pledge ......that's interesting. I remember seeing a prospect for an m/c club cleaning all the windshields with that as well.

Lemon Pledge is an old timers trick to wipe the bike down and has been used long before all the newer wipe down products came about. Works well at shining chrome etc.


 

[grc]

Simple Green pits chrome!

Depends on the chrome.  IMHO anything will pit the chrome plated aluminum parts Harley has been using for the past ten years.  Cheap crap purchased from the lowest cost supplier.  Down there in Florida even the "salt air" has been blamed by Harley when they refuse to honor the warranty after the chrome pits or flakes off.  I find it very illuminating that the chromed rims on the wife's CUV, which is driven during Chicago winters in salty slush, haven't developed one pit or flake in four years, but the Harley that is never ridden in winter has pitted chrome on the floorboards and various other plated parts.  Hmmmmmm.

Jerry

[ultrarider123]

Keep a can of lemon pledge (the spray, bad for the ozone kind...) at the office, house and carry a small can with me on every trip.  Will clean any surface and not leave any white powder residue.  For rubber, it cleans and won't be slickery like Armor All and such.  I've been using it for many years plus not only cleans, gives a good, in-between-wax-jobs shine.  Worked at quite a few motorcycle shops over the years and while they sell Plexus and other such cleaners, most used Pledge as their floor inventory go to shine product.  Cheap, readily available and does a great job.

[D-N-D]

Bug Slide works good also.