Cleaning (yellowed) outside plastics.

shotto1959
shotto1959 Forum Participant Posts: 8
edited January 2017 in Caravans #1

Hello ,

I just wondered if anyone can offer any tips or advice regarding the outside locker doors on my new (old,2007) Coachman caravan. The body itself is lovely and white but the outside plastics seem to be yellowed and I wondered if I can get them white again safely.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Keith

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  • Pathfinder
    Pathfinder Forum Participant Posts: 4,446
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    edited January 2017 #2

    Try ' astonish ' cream/paste, available from 'The Range' or B&M £1:00 tub

  • Hakinbush
    Hakinbush Forum Participant Posts: 286
    edited January 2017 #3

    Or MR Muscle kitchen an bathroom cleaner and a washing up scourer you know the one with the  plastic scourer one side and sponge the other, brought mine up a treat..

  • ChemicalJasper
    ChemicalJasper Forum Participant Posts: 437
    edited January 2017 #4

    Please let me know how you get on!

    I have some quite yellowed trim on mine in places. As yet I have done nothing about it, as my first job was at a white pigment manufacturer and I know from the plastics grades we use to make that if the coatings were not spot on, there was a photo catalytic reaction from the pigment that would yellow the plastic (other companies had previously been sued by the likes of window frame manufacturers for excessive yellowing).

    I had therefore assumed the yellowing was down to poor manufacturing / materials / photo catalytic breakdown and was not just a surface issue, but throughout the plastic where light had penetrated.

     

  • JollyKernow
    JollyKernow Forum Participant Posts: 2,629
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    edited January 2017 #5

    try toothpaste rubbed in with a damp cloth. Or, go onto YouTube and search for "cleaning yellowed plastics"

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