Any Magic Interior Saving Chemical
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Drifting
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Any Magic Interior Saving Chemical
I have a 79Z/28 that I've owned since Sept 79. It is all original with 30k miles. I have tried to keep everything as original as possible -but even being garaged and under a cover, I have some of the red plastic pieces, the rear sailpanels & armrests, getting uneven fading "splotches".
I know that I can take them out and vinyl paint them, but they are not exteremely bad.
I keep thinking that someone may have or know of a method to freshen them up with a "magic" chemical or something? Or like the new products that have come along for buffing clear plastic headlight covers.
Again, I know I can vinyl paint them -but the rest of my interior is perfect and I figure I may have a color matching problem.
Thanks
I know that I can take them out and vinyl paint them, but they are not exteremely bad.
I keep thinking that someone may have or know of a method to freshen them up with a "magic" chemical or something? Or like the new products that have come along for buffing clear plastic headlight covers.
Again, I know I can vinyl paint them -but the rest of my interior is perfect and I figure I may have a color matching problem.
Thanks
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Just like Santa Claus, the Easter bunny and the tooth fairey, there is no magic chemical that will keep your car interior plastic parts like new. Plastic is made flexible with chemicals called, "plasticisers", and these chemicals slowly evaporate causing vinyl and other plastic interior parts become hard and brittle and they eventually split and crack. You can find products that claim to keep your plastic interior parts soft and flexible, but the best thing that they do is to suck money out of your pocket.
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I have a 79Z/28 that I've owned since Sept 79. It is all original with 30k miles. I have tried to keep everything as original as possible -but even being garaged and under a cover, I have some of the red plastic pieces, the rear sailpanels & armrests, getting uneven fading "splotches".
I know that I can take them out and vinyl paint them, but they are not exteremely bad.
I keep thinking that someone may have or know of a method to freshen them up with a "magic" chemical or something? Or like the new products that have come along for buffing clear plastic headlight covers.
Again, I know I can vinyl paint them -but the rest of my interior is perfect and I figure I may have a color matching problem.
Thanks
I know that I can take them out and vinyl paint them, but they are not exteremely bad.
I keep thinking that someone may have or know of a method to freshen them up with a "magic" chemical or something? Or like the new products that have come along for buffing clear plastic headlight covers.
Again, I know I can vinyl paint them -but the rest of my interior is perfect and I figure I may have a color matching problem.
Thanks
Jfb is correct. Father Time is having his way with the car. I know of no magic chemcial that will reverse this. Maybe somebody else does.
BTW....post pics of the car if you can. I grew up with Camaros of this vintage, and remember when the streets were crawling with them. Would be a nice trip down memory lane.
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Sounds like the car is a candidate for a rotiserie, ground up, nut and bolt restoration. You can take care of those issues while the car is apart.
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I don't know of a magic chemical that would restore the color without dyeing or painting, but if the fading has not progressed too far, you could blend it in and prolong the deterioration process with a good silicon based spray. There are dressings for interiors that are siliconed based that you can just spray on. It is similar to the tire dressings. But the downside to these is that if you spray them on, you will have a heck of a time if you did decide to dye or paint down the road.
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Just like Santa Claus, the Easter bunny and the tooth fairey, there is no magic chemical that will keep your car interior plastic parts like new. Plastic is made flexible with chemicals called, "plasticisers", and these chemicals slowly evaporate causing vinyl and other plastic interior parts become hard and brittle and they eventually split and crack. You can find products that claim to keep your plastic interior parts soft and flexible, but the best thing that they do is to suck money out of your pocket.
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Not that it will completely restore the items, but I put aerospace 303 protect-ant on all interior trim to protect it from UV damage.
http://www.303products.com/shop303/i...protectant.cfm
http://www.303products.com/shop303/i...protectant.cfm