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Mike Phillips or others:
Today started like any other day...washed 3 box trucks for a rent-to-own place and then off to another spot for 2 details. The first, a four door Toyota Truck went great.
The second was a 1995 Toyota 4Runner in pretty good shape. I finished the exterior and was planning on going back first thing in the morning to finish the interior. Had a few minutes of light left so I started dressing the dash.
My routine is to have hyper-dressing or leather cleaner/conditioner and a can of accent coating. I've used Accent many times for vents, switches, and other "hard to reach interior surfaces" as the can says. Today I sprayed around the turn signal and steering column adjuster and immediate the plastic turned white!! It got worse after sitting a few minutes.
I couldn't tell if it was just white that could come off or if it completely bleached the plastic so I tried APC, hyper-dressing, scrubbing, and so on and nothing seemed to help. I'm going to look at it again in better light, but I have the sick feeling that it ruined the plastic.
The can says nothing (that I saw) about checking for color-fastness or not using on certain types of interior surfaces. In fact, I used the same process on a 1998 4Runner about a month ago and it was great.
The owner said, "It's 12 years old, don't worry about replacing it" when I said I would if I can't fix it, but it looks horrible! Is this a "known" issue/possibility?? If so, the rest of this can and the other I have is going in the garbage. I can't take the risk with it.
I know that if it took the color out that only dying or replacing will work, but is there something else that I could try first? Boy can a great day go bad real quick.
Jonathan
Today started like any other day...washed 3 box trucks for a rent-to-own place and then off to another spot for 2 details. The first, a four door Toyota Truck went great.
The second was a 1995 Toyota 4Runner in pretty good shape. I finished the exterior and was planning on going back first thing in the morning to finish the interior. Had a few minutes of light left so I started dressing the dash.
My routine is to have hyper-dressing or leather cleaner/conditioner and a can of accent coating. I've used Accent many times for vents, switches, and other "hard to reach interior surfaces" as the can says. Today I sprayed around the turn signal and steering column adjuster and immediate the plastic turned white!! It got worse after sitting a few minutes.
I couldn't tell if it was just white that could come off or if it completely bleached the plastic so I tried APC, hyper-dressing, scrubbing, and so on and nothing seemed to help. I'm going to look at it again in better light, but I have the sick feeling that it ruined the plastic.
The can says nothing (that I saw) about checking for color-fastness or not using on certain types of interior surfaces. In fact, I used the same process on a 1998 4Runner about a month ago and it was great.
The owner said, "It's 12 years old, don't worry about replacing it" when I said I would if I can't fix it, but it looks horrible! Is this a "known" issue/possibility?? If so, the rest of this can and the other I have is going in the garbage. I can't take the risk with it.
I know that if it took the color out that only dying or replacing will work, but is there something else that I could try first? Boy can a great day go bad real quick.
Jonathan
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