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Efficient package for cleaning and preserving your motorcycle

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By Jim Witters

Three products from Star brite Inc.—the Ultimate Xtreme Clean, Ultimate Water Spot Remover and Ultimate Corrosion Blocker—offer an efficient package for cleaning and preserving your motorcycle, car or bicycle, as well as a variety of other items around the house.

The most versatile of the three is the Ultimate Xtreme Clean all-surface cleaner/degreaser. This liquid takes the grime off just about any surface (please read the label before use) with no harm to paint, metal finishes or concrete.

I used the cleaner to rid my KLR 650 fairings of greasy handprints, to remove smudges from the edge of the door separating the house from the garage and to erase my grimy fingerprints from the security system keypad. I cleaned hand tools with it and even used it to spot-clean our wood floors when “someone” tracked in a mix of mud and oil.

A welcome companion for the Xtreme Clean is Star brite’s Ultimate Water Spot Remover, plus PTEF protection. PTEF is polytetrafluroethylene, a synthetic fluoropolymer in the family of Teflon.

As the name states, this spray removes water spots. But it also leaves behind a coating of PTEF that helps disperse the water and prevent it from drying in place to create new water spots. Its effect is similar to Rain X, but using different chemicals.

I tried it on glass and plastic, including the fairing on the KLR, and it easily cleared the surfaces of water spots.

I sprayed the Corrosion Blocker on the KLR’s skid plate and crash bars and on the trailer hitch of my Jeep Wrangler and detected no corrosion on the treated areas after four months.



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