Johnson's Pledge furniture wax spray
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 7:54 pm
The old timers will already know this trick...but for those who do not.
I used to own a Honda Steed 600cc for nine years here in Chiangmai, and it was during that time that I found out about Pledge. Of course we all know it as a furniture polish with a nice smell (yellow cap is lemon & orange cap is orange).
With a nice chopper with lots of chrome and fiddly places to clean a good wash and polish made it all look nice, but could take at least an hour or so. Then one would often get caught by a rain shower or just water on the road where people like to damp down the dust outside their home or shop or throw the dishwater out. This would then cause splatter on parts of our nice finish.
Not wishing to do a complete clean again the solution became 'Pledge'.
It is a very simple and quick job to spray a fine mist onto various places and then use a polishing cloth to wipe it, and any water marks, off. Going over all the main surfaces like this is quick and by the time you have done it all it will have dried off and so doing it all one more time will buff up the polish. A five minute or less job and the bike is back to what it was before...apart from the fiddly places like spokes and engine fins etc....but mainly it is looking good again.
You can safely use it on paint, chrome, plastic, vinyl, leather...so not only your bikes paint and chrome and plastic can be done all at one time, but also the seat and saddlebags, windshield, helmet, visor and even your leathers too.
If there is a lot of dust on a bike after standing for a few days then to avoid scratching I use one of those big polishing mops with thick stringy bits like the head of a Rasta...and spray the mop with polish to make it nice and sticky before dusting all over and picking up the dust...then doing the normal spray and polish with a rag.
The only trouble is that Pledge is quite expensive (over 200 baht), but you can get the same result by using a spray bottle of Wax One Gold (90 baht) or similar polish. Do not use the foamy sprays for wheels though.
Hope this helps the uninitiated ...especially as our PCX/Forza have so much plastic and are a far simpler job to do that a chopper. Actually the spray also has the property of inhibiting static which with large areas of plastic can be a dust magnet.
I used to own a Honda Steed 600cc for nine years here in Chiangmai, and it was during that time that I found out about Pledge. Of course we all know it as a furniture polish with a nice smell (yellow cap is lemon & orange cap is orange).
With a nice chopper with lots of chrome and fiddly places to clean a good wash and polish made it all look nice, but could take at least an hour or so. Then one would often get caught by a rain shower or just water on the road where people like to damp down the dust outside their home or shop or throw the dishwater out. This would then cause splatter on parts of our nice finish.
Not wishing to do a complete clean again the solution became 'Pledge'.
It is a very simple and quick job to spray a fine mist onto various places and then use a polishing cloth to wipe it, and any water marks, off. Going over all the main surfaces like this is quick and by the time you have done it all it will have dried off and so doing it all one more time will buff up the polish. A five minute or less job and the bike is back to what it was before...apart from the fiddly places like spokes and engine fins etc....but mainly it is looking good again.
You can safely use it on paint, chrome, plastic, vinyl, leather...so not only your bikes paint and chrome and plastic can be done all at one time, but also the seat and saddlebags, windshield, helmet, visor and even your leathers too.
If there is a lot of dust on a bike after standing for a few days then to avoid scratching I use one of those big polishing mops with thick stringy bits like the head of a Rasta...and spray the mop with polish to make it nice and sticky before dusting all over and picking up the dust...then doing the normal spray and polish with a rag.
The only trouble is that Pledge is quite expensive (over 200 baht), but you can get the same result by using a spray bottle of Wax One Gold (90 baht) or similar polish. Do not use the foamy sprays for wheels though.
Hope this helps the uninitiated ...especially as our PCX/Forza have so much plastic and are a far simpler job to do that a chopper. Actually the spray also has the property of inhibiting static which with large areas of plastic can be a dust magnet.
.... for those not understanding this, check GatorGreg's other threads and his adventures with hauling water under his seat.