I'm looking for help with interior cleaning/conditioning products. First: wipes. These make a lot of sense to me: something quick and simple that's always in the car, and every once in a while you do a quick 30-second brush-up over everything to keep the car perpetually in an almost-new state. But what to get? There seem to be - leather cleaner - leather conditioner - leather cleaner+conditioner combined - dash/plastic cleaner - dash/plastic conditioner - dash/plastic cleaner+conditioner combined I can understand how in principle cleaning and conditioning/protecting are two separate things, but I don't really want 4 different sets of wipes. Are the combo products okay or would I be setting myself up for problems with them? Also do the wipes need to be compatible in some way with the main non-wipe products I might be using (like 303 or Zaino etc)? I plan to avoid armorall, but might use something from meguiar's or lexol. Meguiar's seems to have a couple cleaner+conditioner combo products, lexol seems to have their leather cleaner and leather conditioner separate and a vinylex cleaner/conditioner combo. What's a good balance between generic and special-purpose for the wipes? Any recommendations / warnings? And on to my second main topic: non-wipe products. Here I've seen lots of recommendations for - 303 for a dash/plastic protectant - Zaino Z9 leather cleaner - Zaino Z10 leather conditioner - maybe duragloss 441/221 leather cleaner/conditioner Is 303 just a protectant or is it a cleaner too? If I had 303, Z9, Z10, would I have all my bases covered? Also how diligent do I need to be about keeping the chemicals separate from each other? I mean can I use one rag for everything, or would I be smearing traces of leather conditioner on the plastic etc? Then just wash the rag/rags in the washing machine afterward? As you can see from my questions, I'm a bit green at all this. So all advise is appreciated . Thanks.
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Along these lines, I am looking for advice on treating light scuffs on the various plastics in the interior. I have some light scuffing on the "plastic" of the dash and the "plastic" door insides and the "plastic" on the door sill where I get in/out and sometimes drag my feet and on the "plastic" sides on the floating console. I have dark grey interior. I used soft pencil lead to darken some of the light areas of the scuff that catch one's eye (this helped). I tried to hide scuffs with interior detailing spray (this did not seem to help). I tried quick wax spray (this did not seem to help). Any suggestions would be most welcome.
I use Lexol on the leather. 303 is great for the plastic parts. Here's a list of my favorite detailing products: http://priuschat.com/forums/gen-iii...ing/62907-my-favorite-detailing-products.html
