Anyone use PENETROL on their poptop?

[Terry Kay]

[Terry Kay]

[Terry Kay]

[Terry Kay]

[Terry Kay]

These few posts with results should keep a few busy for awhile.

Start at page one, find the answers to your questions.
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[ServantOfElwood]

Here's when I did the luggage rack, you can see the finished and unfinished. I used an old piece of T-shirt and mopped Penetrol on liberally without leaving puddles or runs. To me it didn't make it noticeably more tan, but definitely took away that light weathered bloom. I couldn't tell you about durability because the van is still inside.

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The Ghost Ship - 1984 Westfalia 2WD
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=602180
Install in reverse order of removal.

[Merian]

I don't recall seeing any posts re how many years it will last
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[Terry Kay]

That has been posted here and on other penetrol posts.

I know real well application frequency was brought up today.
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[Terry Kay]

[insyncro]

It lasted about as long as the peanut oil did on my exhaust

[Terry Kay]

Run the van through an truck wash acid bath right after the penetrol application, similar to the salt acid bath you gave your rusted up bone yard pipes.

Don't start seasoning anything fresh outa the box, treat them after they got cancer, leukemia, then bum rap the process.

Really.

Why not zinc chromate your rear suspension boxes after they already have 8" bomb holes in them--plate right over the creaping crud.

Hey----new paint shop in your area.
They only will refinish your ride if it minus the rocker panels ,& rear quarters.
Paint right over the smega.

Right on man.

New millennium thought process.

Time to change your oil is after the engine blows up, then blame the oil company.

Common'

The penetrol works well IF you start treating the fiberglass prior to the hairs standing outa the gel coat.

First application to totally chaulked out top?
Did mine twice.
Then one time in the spring thereafter.

Lasts all season.
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[Merian]

Terry, I don't know if English is your first language, but I am asking if others have had Penetrol last for several years. It looks like mine may last that long.

Or not at all if insyncro was not making a joke.

I'd expect that a van sitting out in SoCal (ozone & UV exposure) would have the shortest life.
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[insyncro]

[candyman]

[insyncro]

Do a test and try to remove it once cured with a solvent.

What did you use, if it worked?

[Terry Kay]

Lacquer thinner.

This stuff is primarily a paint fortifier.

After it's dry, no big deal.

The crazies are going to run some sort of sander over the top anyway, removing all of the dimples off of the roof anyhow---you think they'll miss a wiped on, dry coat of Linseed oil?

I think this may be a little difficult to get done-- blast past the penetrol.

After seeing ( again ) the way the stuff brightens up the top in record time, who in their right mind would then consider painting?
Unless the top is worse than anything pictured.

Then skip the penetrol, go directly to the paint store.
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[kamzcab86]

[Terry Kay]

I did see the blue bottles of polish in the 5th page.
Looks like too much work to me.

I am pretty confident it was more than a wave of a rag over the color.

Nothing I have seen works this easy.

The garage helps a bunch from keeping the oxidation blues away, that's for sure.
I was thinking that you got plenty of time outa that job.
You cheated--
The garage.

Spend $15,000 on a decent garage, or $10.00 on a bottle of penetrol.

Yep, 1 + 1 doesn't always equal 2.
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[Michael4104]

Terry,
Right under you avatar there is a phrase " The no spin zone" does that apply to you?
Seems to me you spinning something and it's getting deep.
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1990 Wolfsburg Carat with new poptop.
1985 Westy now sporting a 1995 Jetta ABA 2.0L. Sold

[Terry Kay]

Ever use Blue Coral?
How bout Simonize?

You like spinning your wheels, tell me you just Blue Coraled, or Simonized your pop top.
Got a free week or two?

Anything more than wiping on a coat of the Penetrol with an old T-shirt on that dimpled top is way too much screwing around.
And remember, the entire program minus digging out your step ladder is no more than 30 minutes.

You are correct, this is the No Spin Zone.

Read the testimonials along with the pictures I dug up cause nobody wanted to, and unspin yourself from any difficult work.
Or go build or rent a garage to keep the top looking good.

Makes all kinds of good sense to me.

Kam has the benifit of a roof over his buffed out fiberglass.

You know how long that shiny top would have lasted without it?
Not too long.
Maybe a week in the summer.

Wax on, wax off, once a week would have been that deal without cover over the vehicle.

I can't imagine faux buffing and waxing that pimpled top, without removing half of them in the process any faster than the Penetrol.

If the stuff milked out in 18 months somebody used ; the wrong application process, or just simply jipped the job.
Not enough product will do it every time.
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