Interior Cleaning - Armor All vs "The Rest"

[chucko314]

Hey Guys... i know this question has been asked before ... but here I go ...

Have you guys had any trouble with Armor-Alll Cracking your dash? Ive read countless posts where people state that their interiors have been damaged by ArmorAll Products.

Any suggestions ? NuVinyl / Black Magic / Others ??

[russiankid]

Armor-All is not very good for vinyl, but most newer dashboards aren't vinyl(correct me if I'm wrong). I use F1 Formula, its in a light green bottle, it seems to work very well. My dash is almost 19 years old and not one crack.

[RTexasF]

I've never heard of it cracking, it's just not a very good product compared to others.

[russiankid]

I've never heard of it cracking, it's just not a very good product compared to others.

A lot of their stuff is silicon based.:thumbsdow

[88AccordLX-i]

My parents used Armor-All for years on the two Accords...neither of them have had any interior problems. The dashes look almost new, so it couldn't have done anything major to them.

[namegoeshere]

I used to use Armor All on my old Camry. The dash was vinyl or a vinyl-like material. Not saying that it was Armor All, but after 8 years or so of using it the dash started getting black.... almost like it got burnt. The black/burnt area started off very small but eventually spread and covered pretty much the entire dash. It went from it's original brown color to a black/burnt color.

After that, I started using 303.

[MakingWaves]

Years ago, I was especially neurotic detailing my first car once a week, a 1992 Mercury Topaz 4-door. I kept that car for about nine years in cream-puff condition (ungaraged) and consistently applied Armor-All to the dashboard and door panels using an old t-shirt as an applicator. By year 6 or 7, small cracks began to appear on the edges of the dashboard, then eventually got bigger so that the underlying foam was showing. I believe that the frequent Armor-All applications dried out that particular dashboard, and it was not helped by the summer heat.

I'm not sure, but I think the Accord's dash is light-years better than a 16-year-old Mercury's.

[88AccordLX-i]

Years ago, I was especially neurotic detailing my first car once a week, a 1992 Mercury Topaz 4-door. I kept that car for about nine years in cream-puff condition (ungaraged) and consistently applied Armor-All to the dashboard and door panels using an old t-shirt as an applicator. By year 6 or 7, small cracks began to appear on the edges of the dashboard, then eventually got bigger so that the underlying foam was showing. I believe that the frequent Armor-All applications dried out that particular dashboard, and it was not helped by the summer heat.

I'm not sure, but I think the Accord's dash is light-years better than a 16-year-old Mercury's.

Well, we've had no problems with the dashes of our '88 and '92 Accords. Maybe we just got lucky again...

[rszappa1]

The best stuff out there is protectant 303

[RTexasF]

Seems I remember MotorcityHonda saying he used a Surf City product that rivaled 303 and was less expensive. I don't recall what it is though. I've got a 1/2 gallon of 303 so I'm not going to buy anything else for quite a while.

[rszappa1]

Sometimes cheaper is not better.....