Hello everybody.
I've got a 1994 Taurus GL (3.0L), green interior. A couple weeks ago I noticed that the trim panel to the left of the passenger side airbag appeared a bit darker than the rest of the dash. Didn't really think too much of it at the time. Flash forward to yesterday when I finally went over and started cleaning the interior. I noticed that the rag I was using to clean the dash was sorta sticking to that panel. Upon further examination, that rag was turning green (to match the interior).
So I popped the panel off and took it in for further cleaning.
First thing I used was water, which didn't do me much good. Same as windex.
Then I tried a carpet cleaner product (Bluemagic) I'd used successfully to get some harsh sap off my paint and that started to make a difference. Well, it turned green as it hit the table anyway...
At first I would have suspected that perhaps this car had the interior panel dyed after being replaced. It's been a company car for my mother's ex-employer for the first half of its life, and then mine most recently. A pretty sizeable layer of material can be combed/sludged/mudded about on the surface of this panel near the edges though, what should be thicker than a typical dye I would think...
I guess my question is... what's going on?!
(With regards to "doesn't look very clean to me"... I wasn't done!
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I've got a 1994 Taurus GL (3.0L), green interior. A couple weeks ago I noticed that the trim panel to the left of the passenger side airbag appeared a bit darker than the rest of the dash. Didn't really think too much of it at the time. Flash forward to yesterday when I finally went over and started cleaning the interior. I noticed that the rag I was using to clean the dash was sorta sticking to that panel. Upon further examination, that rag was turning green (to match the interior).
So I popped the panel off and took it in for further cleaning.
First thing I used was water, which didn't do me much good. Same as windex.
Then I tried a carpet cleaner product (Bluemagic) I'd used successfully to get some harsh sap off my paint and that started to make a difference. Well, it turned green as it hit the table anyway...
At first I would have suspected that perhaps this car had the interior panel dyed after being replaced. It's been a company car for my mother's ex-employer for the first half of its life, and then mine most recently. A pretty sizeable layer of material can be combed/sludged/mudded about on the surface of this panel near the edges though, what should be thicker than a typical dye I would think...
I guess my question is... what's going on?!
(With regards to "doesn't look very clean to me"... I wasn't done!
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