Interior Questions

[Lonnie]

Geez Rob4092xx! your response is a cut-and-paste from response #76 in the thread:
https://www.autopia.org/forums/car-...eather-reconditioner-6.html?highlight=leather

What, you don`t think anyone would remember (Haven`t I seen this some place before???) It`s still good/great technical info on leather.

The leather cleaning/conditioning is a forum topic that keeps re-appearing quite often and everyone has a different experience with the plethora of leather care products out there. My suggestion?
Listen to Stokdgs. I respect his opinions and experience with Spinnybeck.

 

[RMarkJr]

ya 303 Aeropace seems to be known to have a high level of UV blocking. There is also Meguiars Natural Shine interior dressing. If you are looking for economical then you could use Meguiars Hyper Dressing diluted down to 3:1.

Also .. by the way .. glass is a natural UV blocker to some extent. I believe that auto manufactures are adding UV blocking to glass. But Still a good idea of course to use something with at least some type of UV protection on the panels.

 

[Accumulator]

Also .. by the way .. glass is a natural UV blocker to some extent. I believe that auto manufactures are adding UV blocking to glass. But Still a good idea of course to use something with at least some type of UV protection on the panels.

I figure that glass does a *LOT* of UV blocking, enough that for fixed-roof vehicles it`s generally sufficient.

I wonder how common interior fading/etc. really are...outside of, say..vehicles left outside in Phoenix. And whether treating those surfaces is really necessary in the functional sense.

I hardly ever use anything other than Interior QDs on my interior plastics and/but I haven`t had any issues since the early `80s (when some neglected cars from the `60s exhibited fading/drying). I`ve never treated interior fabrics, but can`t recall any ever fading (at least not in cars from the last ~30 years).

EDIT: In Coleroad`s case, I wondered whether the APC might`ve factored in...I generally avoid highly alkaline products on interior plastics as I`ve faded previously-OK pieces by using the wrong stuff on them.
So I always wonder if it`s a solution in search of a problem, just another way to get people to spend $.

(If anybody with great memory recalls what happened with the steering wheel of that A6 I sold to my BFF, I figure that isolated case was a matter of hand creams/perspiration, not mere UV exposure through the windshield. Even Audi was shocked, replaced it gratis though out of warranty.)