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Cleaning product recommendation

rangerreece

RangerReece
When I bought some leather furniture a couple of years ago the salesman handed me a couple of bottles of cleaner and protector. Excellent product for the bike. It's great on black plastic and the seats. Non silicone base. I used to use armorall until I read the bikes owners manual and saw that is suggested a non-silicone base cleaner/conditioner. I didn't see silicone in the ingredients in armorall but it listed another ingredient that when I looked it up in Wikipedia I found it was silicone. Theses products clean and condition without changing the matte finish that most Beemer black plastic parts exhibit.
 

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Thanks for this! I always hate when you clean plastic or vinyl and it turns into a shiny slab. Have you tried it on the steering wheel in your car?
 
Most of us have used Arnorall, at one time or another, usually only once on a motorcycle seat, can I say slippery! Look in your local auto parts store McGuires and Mother's make vinyl cleaner and non silicone protectant. For my K1600 I just wash the seat when I wash the bike. Nothing special
 
There is a line of products called Dry wash & Glaze...they have a nice tire / rubber cleaner that works very well & is not shiny. They also have a vinyl & leather care product that is the same.

and, just to note. Their painted finish cleaner / polish also works on chrome , plastic,glass etc. You can do the entire vehicle with just that alone. No streaking. BMW [auto] dealers normally have it. A close friend was a distributor for years. He kept me supplied.
 
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