The arm rests on the 55s are the same situation. Always getting greasy feeling. It's the result of the material deterioration and yes when it stops the material cracks as I understand it. Saw an article on the subject a few years ago talking about it as the Barbie Doll effect since the early Barbie's do it also. -----Original Message----- From: patrick grant [mailto:gran102@xxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 6:23 PM To: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; William Huff; Don Verity Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] i have(had ) the same problem with a 69. has to do with the material used back then. just takes a LOT of scrubbing. dont wish it away because when it stops sweating it starts cracking. pat ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Verity To: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; William Huff Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 9:48 PM Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] Hi Bill, I had a similar experience with a 70 dash pad. I used a product called "Greased Lightning" and it cleaned it up quite well. I did have the advantage of the pad being off the car so I could hose it down. Seems to be a problem with the 70 year only for some reason. 300ly, Don ----- Original Message ----- From: William Huff <whuff@xxxx> To: <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 9:57 PM Subject: [Chrysler300] > Hi Group, > > I have a 70 300 vert that is slowly going back on the road. It has been > sitting under dry shelter for about 2 years. I have now discovered the > vinyl dash pad has a thick greasy coating on it. It is transparent but > sticky. I have tried alcohol and then some enamel thinner on it, but it > doesn't take all of the coating off, although it is less sticky. I am > leery of using stronger solvents. Does anyone have any experience with > this? Any solutions? Oh yes, I live in Florida, so there was humidity to > consider, but I kept Damp-Rid in the car to lower humidity. > > Same car, a previous repaint has left some of the underhood rubber with > overspray. Any hints on how to remove the paint and restore the original > flat black surface of the rubber? > > Thanks, > > Bill Huff > > > To send a message to this group, send an email to: > Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > For list server instructions, go to http://www.chrysler300club.com/yahoolist/inst.htm > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler300/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > Chrysler300-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > To send a message to this group, send an email to: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For list server instructions, go to http://www.chrysler300club.com/yahoolist/inst.htm Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler300/ b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Chrysler300-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To send a message to this group, send an email to: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For list server instructions, go to http://www.chrysler300club.com/yahoolist/inst.htm Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler300/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Chrysler300-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/