Dash Fade

**DLRioM** · 02-01-2008 01:26 PM

I was cleaning the car over the weekend and notice on the passenger side dash on the RHS at the bottom the dash paint had faded considerably. WTF?

Im taking it to the dealershio to have it fixed along with the annoying rattle of the side pillar but im really starting to lose my patience. The car is only 6months old!!! what am i gonna have to put up with for the next 5years.... It just seems to be one minor prob after the other which leaves me really battling to be a Honda supporter......

Any one else had the dash prob?

**Paul1985** · 02-01-2008 01:28 PM

did you have one of those glade air freshner bottles hooked up there?
They can leak and cause stains supposedly..

**aaronng** · 02-01-2008 01:53 PM

Do you always have passengers? It could be their pants rubbing against that bit of plastic. Moisten a soft cotton cloth and give it a gentle wipe. it could be just "dry".

I use 303 protectant, no fade yet even with a passenger riding. Mine is a 2004, parked outside.

**DLRioM** · 02-01-2008 02:17 PM

Well thats y im so annoyed.......

i use the car as a weekender, it very rarely sees the sunlight as its always in under ground parking or garaged. I dont have or use any freshner and i dont believe my passanger has had her pants up against the dash (even if she had the dash cant possibly be that fragile).....

The colour has gone a little blue and what it looks like is the paint has come off?? ive cleaned it over and over again and its not getting any better.

**aaronng** · 02-01-2008 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by DLRioM

Well thats y im so annoyed.......

i use the car as a weekender, it very rarely sees the sunlight as its always in under ground parking or garaged. I dont have or use any freshner and i dont believe my passanger has had her pants up against the dash (even if she had the dash cant possibly be that fragile).....

The colour has gone a little blue and what it looks like is the paint has come off?? ive cleaned it over and over again and its not getting any better.

Do you have the beige or black interior? Give 303 protectant a go.

**traumatized** · 02-01-2008 03:10 PM

hey aaron, hope you are well mate.

where do you get your 303 from? i use to get them from autobarn in lansvale but they don't seem to stock them anymore, but said they can try to order them.

so just wondered where you get them from do you order them in also? or buy them off shelf?

cheers.

**EUR003act** · 04-01-2008 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by DLRioM

Well thats y im so annoyed.......

i use the car as a weekender, it very rarely sees the sunlight as its always in under ground parking or garaged. I dont have or use any freshner and i dont believe my passanger has had her pants up against the dash (even if she had the dash cant possibly be that fragile).....

The colour has gone a little blue and what it looks like is the paint has come off?? ive cleaned it over and over again and its not getting any better.

i once had kangaroo skin on my dash... when i took it off, it left like a really strange mark, it looked like that bit of dash had been in the sun for 100years! i dont know whether it was from some kind of oil or bug in the roo skin... but after a few weeks of cleaning with protectant, it seemed to disappear? i dont even know where it was now, u cant see anything

**Psy** · 04-01-2008 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by EUR003act

i once had kangaroo skin on my dash... when i took it off, it left like a really strange mark, it looked like that bit of dash had been in the sun for 100years! i dont know whether it was from some kind of oil or bug in the roo skin... but after a few weeks of cleaning with protectant, it seemed to disappear? i dont even know where it was now, u cant see anything

The question here is, why did you have kangaroo skin on your dash in the first place?

lol

btw DLRioM, what do you mean rattle on the side pillar? Maybe it's normal.

**minix33** · 04-01-2008 10:58 PM

should have gotten interior protection =]

**aaronng** · 05-01-2008 01:27 AM

Originally Posted by traumatized

hey aaron, hope you are well mate.

where do you get your 303 from? i use to get them from autobarn in lansvale but they don't seem to stock them anymore, but said they can try to order them.

so just wondered where you get them from do you order them in also? or buy them off shelf?

cheers.

Try the other Autobarn outlets. One of them is bound to have 303 in stock. The Blacktown outlet has it.

**aaronng** · 05-01-2008 01:28 AM

Originally Posted by EUR003act

i once had kangaroo skin on my dash... when i took it off, it left like a really strange mark, it looked like that bit of dash had been in the sun for 100years! i dont know whether it was from some kind of oil or bug in the roo skin... but after a few weeks of cleaning with protectant, it seemed to disappear? i dont even know where it was now, u cant see anything

I find that most skins like to suck oil/water. Same with a chamois. I guess the roo skin dried out the dash and the protectant slowly remoisturised it.