Hi,

I am currently refurbing my door handle and b-pillar (perhaps also the black parts of the side view mirror) in black cherry metallic, but the window surrounds look worn with stains and need a refurb as well. But how to restore them to their origi nal colour? Can they be painted to match? In short, I want them to look like new, because they stick out like....

Henk

Get some Autoglym trim and bumper gel, works well.

Washing my car last weekend I tried peanut butter oil for a laugh as it has been mentioned on here that it works.
It actually worked very well indeed! It lifted the residue on the rear window surround.

Just avoid the crunchy variant and apply with something other than bread. But I didn't have to stop for a snack!

Missed this, but why not use raw peanut oil, sesame oil etc. apart from it being more expensive than most.

Olive oil?

I use black cream shoe polish meself.

Don't know if it is anything unique to the oil of peanut? Yes it would be better to use just oil.
What does shoe polish taste like?...... Mmm exactly!

Peanut oil doesn't have the same effect. May be the slightly abrasive texture of the peanut butter, coupled with the peanut oil that does the job.

All i know is, it's been working well for me for over a decade, but jam/marmalade/chocolate spread/syrup/treacle all had fairly poor results...
and don't get me started on the egg mayo sandwich filler fiasco of 2010.