GTL

Hello,

Last tear a small brown spot showed up in my dash at it grew bigger and bigger with time (top left arrow).



I tried alcohol, windex cleaner, armorall, to not avail. It seems nothing can get out that stain. One day it suddenly disappear! I thought it was a kind of fungus or the like, so tried a fungicide. It did not help, it got worse as shown in the picture. Then a couple of weeks ago, new stains started to show up (top - left arrow, and bottom picture). NOTHING seems to take this stains off. It looks they will just spread over all my dash..kind of like cancer. Any help out there or experience with this type of problem? Thanks a lot.

GTL

Sorry, I meant top -RIGHT arrow on the first paragraph..and year instead to tear...

GTL

When I posted my original SOS message nobody responded...but I am going to go out on a limb and assume that somebody is interested in my problem. Well... I mean solution.. 'cause I solved it.. Yeahh!!!

I had a very bad case of a nasty fungus growth. Over the last TWO years, yes it grew little by little, I tried a zillion type of chemicals. Only one (409) was able to remove just a little bit after a lot of scrubbing and scrubbing, but in a couple of weeks the mold came back with vengeance. See original photos.

After a lot of research found this little outfit in Maine called Twin Pines that make chemicals to remove stains in.. get ready guys...... dolls and action figures! What make me keep reading their website was their statement that their stuff will work only in vinyl samples and will destroy all other plastics. When I saw pictures of how good the thing worked on stained dolls, I decided to give it a try. I knew that the Porsche was made of vinyl in the affected area.. so what the heck and bought the stuff.

I have to inform you that the thing called Remove-Zit killed and removed all those micro-critter in a four days...With this message I send a happy cheers to those doll and action figure collecting community, if it wasn't for their passion that little company wouldn't have existed and my dash would have been eaten alive with time.

Guys, take note. This could happen to you.

Cheers and happy driving :-)

ERAU-944

my oh my, that is interesting, i'll keep it in mind in case my sisters ken doll ever gets anything nasty from that **** barbie! <img src="graemlins/oops.gif" border="0" alt="[oops]" />

michael2e

GTL FWIW even though I haven't had to deal with this problem (yet anyway!)I for one appreciate the time taken to post the follow up. Thats what really makes it worth perusing the forum IMHO. Thanks <img src="graemlins/beerchug.gif" border="0" alt="[cheers]" />

GTL

Hey ERAU944 you are way off the apex in both your reply and in the little picture you decided to show-off.. <img src="graemlins/roflmao.gif" border="0" alt="[hiha]" />

ERAU-944

<img src="graemlins/c.gif" border="0" alt="[ouch]" /> ... no offense intended to any barbie fan or whatnot... that just came to mind so i had to say it... thats a rennlist pic to, it just happens to look like my car... my springs arent THAT shot! hehehehe happy driving with your clean dash, mine is fungus-free as of yet. <img src="graemlins/burnout.gif" border="0" alt="[burnout]" />

keith

GTL, that is amazing. Billy (86951) directed me to this thread, and I'm glad he did!!!

How has your dash held up so far?

drucallhome

GTL, Thanks for posting. I have the same problem in the same area on my tan color dash and glove box lid. I had given up on cleaning the dash and was considering on replacing it, until your post. Help, what's the web site for Twin Pines.

ram_one

I've just begun toexperience this as well. Guess I'll be getting myself a bottle of that cleaner.

triscadek

I'm really really really glad you posted this. I caught just enough of a rumor of how you fixed this to drive me nuts trying to find this obscure mold remover to fix mine. Thanks!!!

I've also been trying to get rid of this stain.

Did I say I'm glad you posted this?

triscadek

<a href="http://www.twinpines.com/Products.html" target="_blank">Here</a> it is.