Hi Kara, please note this is my advice and mine only, no doubt you will get other people with different ideas, anyhow for years i have been using MER it comes in a blue square sort of bottle, what i do ie i was advised, get yourself one of those garden spray bottle half a litre is plenty, wash the camper first i use one of those soft extendable brushes you can get at shows,(when the camper is dry) put 2 cupfull of mer in the bottle and fill up with lukewarm water, spray and sort of wash it with mer, you will find is good for windows as well, this will leave a film of the stuff, i usually do half camper at the time(mine is pretty big too) then go back with a good soft cloth and lots of elbow grease, and watch the shine come through. You can also use it neat on very hard to shift stains and tiny scratches, i even use it on the inside of my windows and the whole of my toilet/shower room, i certainly never had any problems with the stuff. Hope that helpedPS. do not spray it on the outside of the front screen, but you can on the inside. PS again i use small step ladders for the very top
thanks for that.....have used MER in the past....don't like the 'streaks' of product that filter down the windscreen - guess always a problem with waterbased products. The m'home needs more of a product than MER - the 'elbow grease' is not a problem once, but not to be repeated too often....hence looking for a longer term solution, although there will be quite a degree of 'recovery' work before applying whatever in the end. Have used a cutting compound, and polish for a pretty good finish for a month...then it is gone - due to degredation of fibreglass......at over 11ft. tall, it is difficult to get a solid footing, whilst trying to apply a lot of elbowgrease, or indeed, using a power polisher....and can only do a foot at a time, before having to move either the motorhome, or the trestle arrangement needed to reach the top. Hence wanting a product that will shine, and protect that shine, long term, while protecting the further degredation.
I use a polish once a year containing carnauba. I shampoo regularly with shampoo containing the same stuff. It can be hugely expensive but I have found a great supplier on eBay at a very reasonable price.
This has worked for me for a number of years and has been very successful. No elbow grease is required to buff up and the shampoo simply washes off with a hose.
Highly recommended - beats Mer, Autoglym, Turtle wax etc - and I've tried all of those in the past.
Try 'Meguiars' GRP cleaner, its brilliant stuff. Used to use it on GRP Yachts and it's the best cleaner that I have used. Bit more expensive than the T Cut type of products but worth every penny. I think you can get it at Halfords and most good car accessory shops. Agree with the comment about 'Carnuba' wax.
I use this, its a GRP mould release wax,I do mine twice a year,
heres the cleaner
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thanks guys for some of the comments.....unfortunately van lives only a few yards from the road....although pretty quiet, and gets quite mucky.
unfortunately, the rain here falls from the sky at pretty regular intervals, and brings all the dust, dirt, and black streaks down the rear and sides - I simply cannot safely, via steps and trestles, reach the roof to 'polish' regularly. The drive slopes, which makes it worse, and access is limited on both sides....sorry to sound such a wimp, but if fell off, no-one would see me for a month!
looks like might have to re-think (presume the GRP stuff would not be advisable on the aluminium painted sides. Have used Starbright marine cut and polish, supposed to be for boats, but the finish did not last a couple of months, and black streaks from the runner surrounding the windscreen still stained almost immediately.
what is the stuff with the glaze finish please....G10 Lunnie?
and im a valeter if you lived closer id give you some but to far away
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looks like might have to re-think (presume the GRP stuff would not be advisable on the aluminium painted sides.
I use it all over my autostratus inc paint work as its none abbrasive
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If you cant do someone a good turn,don`t do them a bad one,its nice to be nice you know,and little things mean much more later in life.
Pete.
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PS. do not spray it on the outside of the front screen, but you can on the inside. PS again i use small step ladders for the very top
