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Sorry, had to dig this up as i've been trying to tidy up my interior lately and have something to add about removing that black rubbery crap.
I've found that windex is useful. Spray heaps on and rub with a green scotchbrite pad for the harder plastic trim pieces or a blue pad one if you're cleaning the non-textured bits as the plastic will scratch with a green. I tried all the other solvents I could find at home and most do nothing while things like acetone obviously melt the lot. When you get a good whiff of windex it smells likes ammonia so if anyone's keen to give a higher concentration of that a go... go for it, I'm not
It may even be the alcohol in windex that's doing the job, but I didn't have any isopropyl around.
Pieces like the steering column covers and the dash end plates (fuse panel cover) seem to have a thicker coating and if you can avoid it, don't even start with these bits, it will take you forever! Downside is that the steering column covers, especially around the ign barrel are usually the worst off with scratches all over.
After cleaning them and fixing a few cracks around the shifter with some resin, I gave everything a coat with black vinyl dye. I also did the 'wood' trim pieces. I dunno about everyone else but I always thought that stuff looked terrible and I'm too cheap to buy the ali set. You can see in one of the pics that I haven't done the rear centre console trim, only the bit around the shifter. A bit of a difference between the new black and the old black!
I've found that windex is useful. Spray heaps on and rub with a green scotchbrite pad for the harder plastic trim pieces or a blue pad one if you're cleaning the non-textured bits as the plastic will scratch with a green. I tried all the other solvents I could find at home and most do nothing while things like acetone obviously melt the lot. When you get a good whiff of windex it smells likes ammonia so if anyone's keen to give a higher concentration of that a go... go for it, I'm not
It may even be the alcohol in windex that's doing the job, but I didn't have any isopropyl around.Pieces like the steering column covers and the dash end plates (fuse panel cover) seem to have a thicker coating and if you can avoid it, don't even start with these bits, it will take you forever! Downside is that the steering column covers, especially around the ign barrel are usually the worst off with scratches all over.
After cleaning them and fixing a few cracks around the shifter with some resin, I gave everything a coat with black vinyl dye. I also did the 'wood' trim pieces. I dunno about everyone else but I always thought that stuff looked terrible and I'm too cheap to buy the ali set. You can see in one of the pics that I haven't done the rear centre console trim, only the bit around the shifter. A bit of a difference between the new black and the old black!
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