RE: [Chrysler300] Vinyl protecting

["Lee Meyer" <js23rob@xxxxxxx>]

I agree, the stuff is horrendous crap. You will never have clean windows
again.
Lee in san diego

-----Original Message-----
From: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Roger Schaaf
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 8:06 AM
To: 300-Chrysler 300 Club; Gloria Moon
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] Vinyl protecting

I have written often on this listsrv regarding Armor All.  IMHO the
product may serve well as a weed and vegetation killer for your
landscaping requirements, but to use on an automobile to protect or
enhance your interior or even your tires is the height of folly.

The stuff exudes gases for months when used in the interior thereby
fogging you windows with this scum that even lye and steel wool cannot
remove.  The shiny, greasy, slippery look and feel that it leaves on
your surfaces would not past muster at the lowest of the low car show
judging.  Not to mention what a dust collector this substance is and the
fact that over a period of time, it will discolor your vinyl and tires
to this ghastly yellow/orange/gold appearance from their normal black
finish.

I may have told this story before on this listsrv.  Many years ago I had
some body work performed on an automobile at my favorite body shop.
When I picked up the car, I noted as the beaming owner(a good friend of
mine) of the shop looked on, that interior and tires were slathered with
this stuff.

I said Ed, what is this crap.  He said it was the newest product for
protecting and enhancing the finish of rubber and vinyl.  I told Ed that
I would leave the car with him and would only pick it up when all of
this stuff was removed.  A couple of days later, I picked it up.  Ed
reported that it was a big job to remove it.

A couple of years later, Ed told me this little tale.  He said that for
quite sometime he had been experiencing "fisheye" in his paint jobs(his
shop was well noted for their extremely high quality paint jobs, mainly
on Corvettes, Porches, Ferraris and cars of that ilk).  He said he had
battled with paint vendors, suppliers of chemicals, his body and paint
guys in doing proper preparation, all to no success.  He then said that
one day he had remembered my conversation with him a couple of years
previous on Armor All on my car.  He immediately headed to his detail
shop(a large separate room in the same building).  He found that the
heating, ventilation system was shared thru the whole shop.  He then
realized that Armor All(still used in the detail shop---why, I do not
know) and when it was sprayed on automobiles it would become atomized
and carried throughout the shop, and molecules of it would land on autos
prepared for painting.  This even after they had been cleaned thoroughly
with prep-sol before paint was applied and even prep-sol was not
removing it.  Hence the "fisheyes".  

He did thank me for hollering at him some 2 years before and giving him
the idea where his problem originated.  He also switched to 303
Protectant, which of course is what I have used for some 20 years or so.

Other then that I have no strong thoughts on the product.

Roger Schaaf
300 B
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gloria Moon 
  To: 300-Chrysler 300 Club 
  Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 4:53 AM
  Subject: [Chrysler300] Vinyl protecting


  We have used Armorall on our vinyl dashes and are not pleased with the

  results later. Either we used it incorrectly or it is not the best
thing to 
  use. I know we've discussed this before, but I've lost that thread.

  For now we're using saddle soap to clean which has no vinyl softening
or UV 
  protection.

  For vinyl roofs, we use the very excellent POR-GLO by POR15 Inc. But
this 
  is for exterior use only.

  Gloria Moon

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