I had a new windscreen fitted yesterday, it wasn't until I checked later that I found the fitter had left grubby finger marks all the way up and down the 'A' pillars. They are covered in the same stuff as the headlining, a sort of cheap thin stretchy material. I've not had much luck in the past with cleaning this type of material so just wondered if anyone had any recommendations based on personal experience.
Thanks
Take it back to the windscreen fitter ...
What he said but I wouldn't be surprised to find a get out clause in the small print. If the black marks are from the sealing compound rather than just dirt they'll be a begger to shift.
Many, many years ago I used something from Diversey to clean headlinings (I was working as a car cleaner at the time, my boss being Sally Thomsett's dad!). It was magic. May be worth asking a valet or local garage...
I'm just about to try Stain Devils on my headlining, unless someone has a better idea. It has red wine splashed all over one side..
Sally Thomsett, oh my god how I lusted after her when I was 14. She needed a damn good looking after...
How on earth did you spill wine on the headlining, or should we ask?
In article , Bovvered? writes
Foaming car upholstery cleaner.
The brand I have use is Ambersil Groom and it works will.
If there's any risk that it is oily rather than just grubby I'd consider having it done professionally and claiming from the installer.
Me too, except I was about the same age! I did get to meet her a few times...
I didn't. Some pillocks stole a load of wine from the local wine shop, didn't like the red, so heaved a full (but open) bottle through the rear window...
Just proves you shouldn't drink and drive. ;-)
They are a bunch of w***ers. The rear screen on my old Rover shattered due to a fault in the demister.
Insurance company said this was covered and to use Autoglass. Contacted them - and they said NLA (there are many varieties - with and without heater, windscreen wiper, and tints).
Asked on a car group for advice and possibly getting a secondhand one - and someone in the trade said they'd found a new one in seconds. At Autoglass main stores.
Got back onto my local branch with the reference number I'd been given and they said it wasn't suitable for a '92 Vitesse. My car is an '85 EFI - a totally different model. I've no idea where they got their details from
- my insurance ones are correct.
They came round to fit it - and of course I watched. I was surprised they used the original rubber - after all it was 20 years old, but still available new and at a reasonable price. I was also surprised they fitted it to the screen dry - the factory w/s manual says to use sealer.
When signing for it I was showed what they were charging the insurance co for the screen - approx 450 quid. Rimmer charges 120 for one - but didn't have one in the correct tint.
And of course it leaked. Took it to the depot where they re-sealed it. Next heavy rain - it still leaked. Took it back. They said it didn't. I said it did - I'd been inside the boot while a hose was played on it and it leaked. Suggested they did the same. They then said it was probably the rubber. But that wasn't covered by the insurance. After an argument they agreed to fit a new one free if I provided it. Which I did.
They managed to score the paint in two places when removing the screen. Badly.
And it still leaked...
Eventually with help I removed the screen myself and refitted it by the workshop method using sealer between glass and rubber. Perfect. And before anyone asks - there was no rust whatsoever on the mounting flange.
Did I say they were a bunch of wankers? And that's being polite.
Assuming it is just dirt or grease, and decent upholstery cleaner should shift it. Simoniz make a good one.
But if it's windscreen sealer - pass.
However, it's really down to them to sort their mess. But you'll be lucky...
"Dave Plowman (News)" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
Sounds very familiar...
Yup, definitely familiar.
Ah - now there they did manage to do it right on mine - but only because they didn't actually remove the rubber from the body.
Yup. Definitely coming through between glass and rubber in the lower corners of the windscreen. I tried some sealant, but it just slowed it down.
Captain Tolley's Creeping Crack Cure (no, seriously) seems to have done the job, though.
Good stuff, used it on an ordinary window here that leaked under gale force driven rain. Took several applications but cured the leak.
Strange stuff - very, very 'thin' - but it finds its way into cracks and has been 100% successfull (touching wood) at keeping the gentle West Cork rain _outside_ my old moggie Traveller.
Gloveboxes used to fill up with water - not nice!
I bought some online from a boaty place in Norwich - found it through Google
Adrian
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Bovvered? saying something like:
I was so exasperated with the grubby plastic headlining of a van cab, I just emulsioned it black. It worked, too.
In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes
A bunch of expensive wankers ...
Someone broke one of the side windows of my car a couple of years ago, their quote was double everyone else's
I phoned them up to check that their glass wasn't gold plated or something and they suddenly found that they had made a mistake
Fuck 'em - lying, cheating bastards, they didn't get my business
Adrian gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
Have to admit, I've been wondering if it's just very thin PVA...
Who cares WHAT it actually is? The name alone is reason to buy it.
Definitely - and even as I write this, I'm desperately trying to think of something I can use it for.
Other stuff that works is Loctite 290. Will wick into the smallest crack and set to a seal impervious to water or even petroleum products. Quite expensive but you don't need much.
Years ago I sold a pressure washer to a used car dealer in Essex. Rather than clean the dirty & often faded cloth seats in the dodgy cars they sold, they sprayed them with matt black paint.
It looked great (for a while I guess) but made the seats feel rather hard & stiff. They actually called it 'putting on a crinkle'.
I asked if anyone commented on the feel of the seats. They reckoned their punters had never had a car with cloth seats, so didn't know what to expect.
They also 'restored' vinyl roof's with black boot polish.
Whatever happened to the vinyl roof?
No, it doesn't have the right "feel". It's very runny stuff with a low surface tension so it does what it says on the tin creeps into cracks, fills 'em up, then sets.
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