Removing garage applied interior shine

mrlee

Greetings all.

Recently bought a car at the cheaper end of the scale but the seller has sprayed something over the entire interior making the whole thing shiny and stupidly slippery. Is there anything I can use to remove some of this sheen? (primarily the slippy aspect) Mostly hard plastics and probably some kind of pleather on the steering wheel & handbrake.

Thanks in advance 👍

facade

You need a solvent that wont attack the plastic, try alcohol, or WD40. You will need loads of clean cloths- I wonder if those glass cleaning wipes would work?

Car_54

I suspect WD40 might make it worse - I'd try meths, lighter fluid, nail varnish remover. As they always say, test a small unobtrusive area first.

LadyDee

Have you tried just warm soapy water?

Owain_Moneysaver

Google-fu suggests

alcohol-based LCD screen wipes. Everything else left it's own residue of sorts, although a leading brand baby wipe, the "pure" variety (no fragrance, no moisturiser, etc), proved to be second-best.

https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/13427/removing-interior-shine-spray

followed by something like

https://www.micksgarage.com/d/dash-rubber-and-plastics/products/2999517/nextzett-cockpit-premium-cleaner-500ml

facade

Don't try acetone based nail varnish remover (smelly), it will attack the plastic. Acetone free (non-smelly) should be ok, but it will leave an oily residue behind. Then warm soapy water will be needed to get the oil off....

mrlee

Thanks for the thoughts - I’ll try some pure baby wipes first as they’re cheap and easy to get hold of. Will report back soon.

force_ten

l would try an apc all purpose cleaner watered down to about 10/1

if you dont have an auto specific APC use a household APC like star drops spray on to a micro fibre cloth and rub over the affected surface my have to wipe a couple of times to fully clear the cockpit shine

m0bov

IPA with distilled water mix, or APC watered down as above, Use a MF, for the love of god dont use WD40, that's fish oil......

facade

m0bov wrote: »

for the love of god dont use WD40, that's fish oil......

Only if fish oil is light kerosene


https://web.archive.org/web/20140119014037/http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/st_whatsinside


WD40 is a pretty good solvent for sticky things, pretty useless for freeing seized nuts & bolts and lubricating moving parts though.