Restore Interior Wood

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mini1

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What do you use to remove the scratching, marring and hazing on factory interior wood? No matter what I do, the wood always seems to get scratched. I've got cars brand new and the wood is already full of micro-scratches, swirls, and hazing. How do I restore the wood and make it look like new without doing any damage to it? I want to be able to look at the wood in the sun and not see any micro scratching, swirls or haze. Rarely, does a client ask me to restore their wood, but my person collection of cars could use some help.
 
Danase said:
A lot of the wood in cars has a clear on it that you can take care of similar to paint.
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+1. On my truck, I use IP and a terry cloth. Cleans it up nicely. Be sure you do a test spot first.
 
mini1 said:
What do you use to remove the scratching, marring and hazing on factory interior wood? No matter what I do, the wood always seems to get scratched. I've got cars brand new and the wood is already full of micro-scratches, swirls, and hazing. How do I restore the wood and make it look like new without doing any damage to it? I want to be able to look at the wood in the sun and not see any micro scratching, swirls or haze. Rarely, does a client ask me to restore their wood, but my person collection of cars could use some help.
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a fine polish followed by carnauba :)



(Zymol has a product specifically for this task, I own it. Any hi-grade carnauba will yield an excellent result.)
 
mini1- Just be a little careful how aggressive you get, the clear on the wood might not be all that thick and you don't want to take off enough to compromise the UV protection.





tom p. said:
a fine polish followed by carnauba :)



(Zymol has a product specifically for this task, I own it..)
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I bet the stuff you have is the same as mine! I got mine from Beverly Hills Motoring Accessories back in '85 and it has their name on the label, but on the bottom of the jar is the Zymol eagle and logo.



Is yours a rather granular, yellow wax?
 
tom p.- Yeah, that appears to be it all right, still a little 2 oz. jar too. Gee, hadn't thought about Emmons in a while..
 
I've got two jars of the stuff. I bought the 2nd one recently from someone on this forum that didn't want it. It's a neat product, but any quality carnauba could replace it.
 
Can I just take Meg's NXT 2 to the wood? I don't want to damage it since it costs $1000's to replace.
 
IMO at some point it's not a bad idea to just keep the wood clean and protected and let the marring go. I know..more of my Autopian Heresy, but if it's gonna keep getting marred up anyhow you can only do so much polishing.



I haven't polished the interior wood in Accumulatorette's A8 for quite a while, and it could sure use it, but I'm just letting it go for now as I sure don't want to have to get it refinished. For that matter, the wood in the S8 isn't exactly *perfect* these days either :o but I'm not losing sleep over it.
 
mini1 said:
So I should use a standard carnauba wax and not a higher end syn wax?
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Either one oughta work fine, with the normal diffs in appearance. The wood has clear of some kind over top of it anyhow, the LSP won't actually touch the wood itself.
 
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