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    How do you clean your vinyl top?

    I'm finishing up winter prepping my Buick, and it has the tan full vinyl top. I know we've discussed this at length when I had my black '85, but it's been so long I'm sure the responses will have changed.

    I've been planning on cleaning it with Meguiar's plastic / vinyl shine then going over it with Lexol leather conditioner, since I have both and do the same for my leather seats.

    Opinions?
    1984 Ford Crown Vic LTD, The Murphmobile (RIP)
    1985 Ford Crown Vic LTD, The Murph Deuce (SOLD)
    1978 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, The Crapiece (current project)
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    #2
    I used the 303 leather/vinyl cleaner and then the protectant on the Lincoln. Left my hands 4 years later in the same shape I got it in except for the spots that were already "patched" opened up. And I probably didn't clean it as much as I should have.

    Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
    rides: 93 Crown Vic LX (The Red Velvet Cake), 2000 Crown Vic base model (Sandy), 2003 Expedition (the vacation beast)

    Originally posted by gadget73
    ... and it should all work like magic and unicorns and stuff.

    Originally posted by dmccaig
    Overhead, some poor bastards are flying in airplanes.

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      #3
      Really... I'll have to look into this!
      1984 Ford Crown Vic LTD, The Murphmobile (RIP)
      1985 Ford Crown Vic LTD, The Murph Deuce (SOLD)
      1978 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, The Crapiece (current project)

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        #4
        I dont.

        the last time i did it dried out and cracked to hell.
        Give a man a fish and he will be fed for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will promptly forget that he once did not know, and proceed to call anyone who asks, a n00b and flame them on the boards for being stupid.

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          #5
          What did you use on it?

          Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
          rides: 93 Crown Vic LX (The Red Velvet Cake), 2000 Crown Vic base model (Sandy), 2003 Expedition (the vacation beast)

          Originally posted by gadget73
          ... and it should all work like magic and unicorns and stuff.

          Originally posted by dmccaig
          Overhead, some poor bastards are flying in airplanes.

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            #6
            Everyone on hear recommends the aerospace stuff but I haven't bought it yet in the mean time I just wash it with car wash soap and spray wax it and the water beads rights off. If it's dirty lexol makes good vinyl cleaner


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              #7
              I only use 303 aerospace protectant.
              ~David~

              My 1987 Crown Victoria Coupe: The Brown Blob
              My 2004 Mercedes Benz E320:The Benz

              Originally posted by ootdega
              My life is a long series of "nevermind" and "I guess not."

              Originally posted by DerekTheGreat
              But, that's just coming from me, this site's biggest pessimist. Best of luck

              Originally posted by gadget73
              my car starts and it has AC. Yours doesn't start and it has no AC. Seems obvious to me.



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                #8
                I use the 303. Good stuff. The problems I have had with spray wax or other liquid stuff is what happens in the summer heat.
                My horror stories are from when I used to live in the CA. desert, where it is very HOT and dry.

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                  #9
                  I use Meguiar's # 40...really good stuff.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Louis View Post
                    I use Meguiar's # 40...really good stuff.
                    Thats probably the best stuff to use.


                    1990 Colony Park, with HO swap.

                    Previously:
                    1990 Lincoln Town Car Cartier.
                    88 CVLX
                    01 Marquis

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                      #11
                      How do you clean your vinyl top?

                      There seems to be a lot of dirt built up in the creases now too. I had the car at the parents over most of the summer, and the street in front of their house was torn up and completely redone, so a lot of that construction dirt is pretty deep in the crevices on it.
                      1984 Ford Crown Vic LTD, The Murphmobile (RIP)
                      1985 Ford Crown Vic LTD, The Murph Deuce (SOLD)
                      1978 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, The Crapiece (current project)

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                        #12
                        The 303 works better on my '87. The Meguiar's didn't hold up as well - maybe too hot and sunny down here...


                        "Hope and dignity are two things NO ONE can take away from you - you have to relinquish them on your own" Miamibob

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                          #13
                          Get a nice brush and lather everything up wiping away the lather before it dries.
                          ~David~

                          My 1987 Crown Victoria Coupe: The Brown Blob
                          My 2004 Mercedes Benz E320:The Benz

                          Originally posted by ootdega
                          My life is a long series of "nevermind" and "I guess not."

                          Originally posted by DerekTheGreat
                          But, that's just coming from me, this site's biggest pessimist. Best of luck

                          Originally posted by gadget73
                          my car starts and it has AC. Yours doesn't start and it has no AC. Seems obvious to me.



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                            #14
                            I don't know why I never thought of that...
                            1984 Ford Crown Vic LTD, The Murphmobile (RIP)
                            1985 Ford Crown Vic LTD, The Murph Deuce (SOLD)
                            1978 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, The Crapiece (current project)

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