AZjeff
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This article popped up on MSN says to use olive/vegetable/coconut oil to condition your dash. Never heard of it. Yes or no?
oil your dash
oil your dash
Oil on the dash?
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Sounds like a terrific way to turn your dashboard into a sticky, dust covered mess. Just use the products intended for it, and skip the food oils.
Originally Posted by JustN89
Yeah, I don't want my dashboard cooking in the Texas heat with vegetable covering it. I can only imagine how bad that would smell.
That's why the refined man's choice is bacon grease
In summer you could probably fry the bacon on the dash, huge time saver.
Yeah, I don't want my dashboard cooking in the Texas heat with vegetable covering it. I can only imagine how bad that would smell.
That's why the refined man's choice is bacon grease
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What credentials does the author hold?
Wouldn't this leave oil residue on the windshield as well?
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That's disgusting and would turn rancid.
I took some bad advice years ago and "conditioned" my leather (fake) work boots with vegetable oil. It turned rancid and began to smell so bad I had to toss them. Don't use anything natural that can spoil. It's nasty, trust me.
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Having worked with natural lubes for cast bullets, I concur with the posts above: rancidity, bad smells and offgassing in hot weather/film on window glass. Curiously, given the bacon grease comment, pure lard is the best of the worst, but still not good enough to be recommended.
Having worked with natural lubes for cast bullets, I concur with the posts above: rancidity, bad smells and offgassing in hot weather/film on window glass. Curiously, given the bacon grease comment, pure lard is the best of the worst, but still not good enough to be recommended.
On the plus side you could cook your breakfast on the way to work.
I used WD-40 to clean up the vinyl on the back of the seats in my 96 Nissan pickup ...and they looked so good that I ended up using a light coat on all of the interior vinyl / plastic... sort of just to see what it'd do ... that was over a year ago and all of it still looks new. I didn't think it would hurt anything but didn't think it would last too long either... but it has ! I just wipe the dust off the dash as needed with a slightly damp cloth... no more than before. Even though it's a daily driver, it stays in the carport a lot of the time, so it's not out in the sun all day unless on a day long trip... even so, after more than a year, I'm impressed.
Originally Posted by AZjeff
This article popped up on MSN says to use olive/vegetable/coconut oil to condition your dash. Never heard of it. Yes or no?
oil your dash
It will shine it up so that the sun will reflect off and glare on the windshield making driving more difficult.
This article popped up on MSN says to use olive/vegetable/coconut oil to condition your dash. Never heard of it. Yes or no?
oil your dash
It will shine it up so that the sun will reflect off and glare on the windshield making driving more difficult.
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