Cleaning and shining problems

[MissingToof]

Hello, my son decided to clean our bass tracker and used Starbrite aluminum cleaner/restorer.  Now it looks horrible, hazy cloudy looking everywhere he put this stuff on the boat.  What can we do to fix this?  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[J.W.]

Was the aluminum clear-coated? If so, that stuff may have eaten the paint.

If it were mine, I'd be tempted to get an orbital polisher and some Flitz or Mother's polish and see what happens. Maybe somewhere inconspicuous at first until I could see that it doesn't make things worse.

[Dark3]

I tried looking online and cant find anyone else saying anything similar, just all good reviews. Not sure why this happened, did he use it in accordance with the instructions? I wonder if you have some sort of electrolysis going on. 


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[topdsm0138]

That stuff is technically an acid. If you leave it on too long, it "etches" the aluminum or eats paint.

The trick is doing one small section at a time with that stuff. You can't "soap up" the whole boat at once, then scrub it all, then rinse like we do cars. That's probably what happened.

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