I've found I have to keep a pretty fresh cover on the dream on. it does absorb oil pretty quickly, but as soon as I hit it with a pad it comes back to life. Doing normal maintenance will definetely help as well. I tried to polish it too, and that gave me a look closer to the original dream just not quite as flippy. I've gone down to as low as 500 grit on my dream on and it reads oil well still at low grit for me. RyGuy119, I do agree it does get lane shine pretty quick, so I thnk keeping the surface at what you want will help a bunch.