I've cleaned the interior of my new to me 93 FD and am wondering when exactly it really is clean.

I'm using the Armor All Orange wipes on the dash and console, the old owner didn't do much cleaning and of course after the first pass the things were pitch black.

Second pass, black...third, black....fourth lighter grey...I mean this is ALOT of cleaning.

Does the plastic 'give off' color or should I keep working away till it comes totally clean?

The interior was close to disgusting, especially the HVAC controls, looks like he had an incident with some pop and there were sticky sugar stains on the plastic, took forever to get that crap off.

I just don't want to wash the color out if that indeed is whats happening.

Thanks

 

Is the lighter grey still on the black side because ive never seen a grey interior unless he painted it or recovered it

 

also if you did screw up think of this as an excuse to start seriously working( other than the cleaning which is very tedious it sounds like) on your RX-7 i mean it would have happened eventually(working on it) and soon youll be broke like the rest of us

 

No broke here, its an LS1

I should have been clearer, the cloth I am using gets lighter and ligher, ie less dirt.

From the amount of times I had to wipe I would have assume to have gotten the surface dirt off the first few passes, not still getting it off after 4-5, but I might be wrong and the reason I posted the question.

So no motor troubles, but plenty of suspension work to do. I just NXT'd the body, I have zero patience for real paint work and it looks OK. Its not great, its not bad. Probably send it off for a wet sand and a ton of wax and keep it up from there.

 

If you are worried about killing the color, switch to good old fashioned soap and water.

 

yeah but if some of its killed, lets say 2 square inches just as an example, if he switches to soap and water that 2 square inches is going to stick out like a sore thumb. my suggestion is if the color really is going away and you want to keep the stock look just repaint it in textured flat black. It will probably look better too

 

It's like wiping your ***. You keep wiping till you see nothing.

Seriously, though, I wipe my interior dash and panels w/ Meguiar's "The Professional" Vinyl & Rubber Cleaner with a towel, and I'm done when it comes up clean. Sounds like the previous owner of your car was a slob. *But*, once your interior is thoroughly clean, it will be easier to maintain if you wipe it down every couple weeks.

 

I just used Meguiars NXT yesterday, used a bit too much but I plan on picking up there interior stuff.

The interior is in good shape, I just am really **** about keeping it super clean and always wipe down/redo it every 2 weeks.

I have some new interior pieces coming this week and I'll hit it again till its clean.

Thanks for the advice.

 

Funny: My RX-7 was vacuumed/cleaned/etc one a week... My Audi (newer, nicer interior, leather, etc...) I have yet to really do anything to.