armor all damage?

[Calendyr]

Found it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnq2OtSZnNA

Just re-watched it (been over a year). So he talks about Solvent vs water, not sillicone. So I am unsure if this applies to Armor All or not, don't know if Armor All is solvent or water based. Maybe someone with the info could educate us?

 

[Rsurfer]

Larry Kosilla made a video about a year or two ago explaining the différences between waterbased and sillicone based products. I cannot recall where I saw it, it must be on youtube somewhere. In the video he has a flexible rubber pipe that has been connected to a sillicone based product tank for a while and the pipe is now solid as rock.

I think it's a good way to show how drying that product is. I don't know if the formulation of armor all still uses Sillicone these days but I am tempted to think it does because of the intense shine it has once applied.

That being said, I would not use sillicone dressing from Meguiar's either, it's not a company thing for me.

I'm no chemist, but water based Silicone is safe. Car Pro's Perl is a water based silicon oxide dressing.

 

[FUNX650]

Ricky-Bobby, there is a video

Don't Buy Armor THE SHOCKING TRUTH About ARMOR AL…: Don't Buy Armor THE SHOCKING TRUTH About ARMOR ALL MUST SEE!!! - YouTube

Seems to be a very likable fellow...In fact:
I bet he would be a cinch to reach stardom in those:
"People of Wal-Mart" video productions!

Yeah, but he keeps using it and building up more layers with dirt trapped between coatings. You could hear that the bottle was almost empty.
What a joke!

Yea...
He really doesn't seem to exude the persona of a:
Society of Plastics Engineers member.


Bob

 

[Rsurfer]

Yea...
He really doesn't seem to exude the persona of a:
Society of Plastics Engineers member.


Bob

Too funny Bob. You should write for David Letterman..oh shoot, he's retiring.

 

[davidc]

Surely you're not suggesting that the reason:
Vinyl would crack Back in the 80's...
Was ArmorAll's fault!!

Bob

Back in the 70's, 80's Chrysler actually sent out a bulletin to vehicle owners warning that Armorall would dry out vinyl and plastics and urged owners not to use it as warranties would not be honored for use of that product and the damage it caused. I have heard they changed the formula but there are so many better products now that Armorall is no where on my radar.

Dave

 

[FUNX650]

Back in the 70's, 80's Chrysler actually sent out a bulletin to vehicle owners warning that Armorall would dry out vinyl and plastics and urged owners not to use it as warranties would not be honored for use of that product and the damage it caused. I have heard they changed the formula but there are so many better products now that Armorall is no where on my radar.

Dave

Turned out that was a bogus TSB.

It was Chrysler's bean counters that insisted the vehicles' plastics be of such low grade quality.
Of course, when the low-grade plasticizers in Chrysler's plastic components started out-gassing at such an alarming, expedited-rate...
They looked for a scapegoat---any scapegoat they could find.

Since ArmorAll was the only company that had an interior "plastic dressing" on the market at this time;
and when Chrysler heard that they had customers that used ArmorAll:
Boom! They had their scapegoat (or so they thought).

Funny that, even though one of the Big Three tried to take ArmorAll down...
They're still around, and still remain the World's largest "dressing" manufacturer/supplier---that has an even larger portfolio.

And to think:
All this from a guy that owned a few 1970's Chrysler vehicles.

Bob

 

[Flash Gordon]

Ok so maybe I started out this thread completely wrong. Maybe it should have been, what could cause a cars interior to appear to dry out in only a year?

Does it look like a white powdery substance? I did a Corvette recently that was covered in the mess. It can off easily FWIW

You sure it doesnt just need a very good cleaning with something like 1z plastic cleaner or a dedicated leather cleaner? Thats what it sounds like.

This ^

Ricky-Bobby, there is a video

Don't Buy Armor THE SHOCKING TRUTH About ARMOR AL…: Don't Buy Armor THE SHOCKING TRUTH About ARMOR ALL MUST SEE!!! - YouTube

I hate to call someone a liar, but this guy is a LIAR! Is doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to see this truck has NEVER seen ANY KIND OF CONDITIONING/detailing. Much less on a regular basis as he claims

That damage is either from improper cleaning or from the dye GM used. What a load!