vinyl cleaning

To clean it you can use mineral spirits on the outside. Softening it is a problem. Mineral oil or some leather softeners can be worked in but they may also remove the label.

A good friend of mine has developed a cleaning and softening mixture that works really good and softens as well, I used it on some coil spring isolators and it cleaned and soften them beyond my expectations, so with that said here's what worked. I bought POR-15 Cleaner Degreaser and used a 4 to 1 mix with hot water ( this is done with water from the tap ) this not only cleaned but softened, I let it soak in a plastic container for  1 day and checked my progress, so you leave it in for as long as needed. Another option I have used is hand cleaner like something with pumice to scrub , GO-JO type.

I just did a check on the contents of the POR-15 Cleaner Degreaser...there is no Acetone...according to the manufactures label of contents : Water, Potassium Hydroxide, Butyl Cellosolve, Ethoxylated Undecyl Alcohol. I know that POR -15 has renamed this cleaner as it used to be Marine Cleaner, maybe when they did that they reformulated the product to be less harmful

Some of the Jeep crowd have bought these:

Edited by Lyle - Apr/07/2018 at 6:42pm