Not sure why this has spawned 5+pages. Put simply, any time you use acetone or other caustic cleaners, you damage your fenders, or other synthetic material items (but only talking about fenders here). That is why they turn sticky and feel different after use. Do not use stripper, acetone, carb cleaner, etc on products like this. You change the chemical composition of the barrier coating and the fender itself. You may not feel it the first time, but it will happen, and you did damage it.
Use a non-caustic cleaner like the previously mentioned Blechewhite, Spray-9, Purple stuff, Simple Green, etc. Blechewhite just so happens to work best from the dozen or so I have tried over the years, with the least amount of work. Most all the suggestions above will work, you just don't want to damage your fenders.
OK, off my soapbox.
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