Vinyl Conditioner

Hi Rosco... and thanks for the reply.
I used to use Armourall for looking after the black chrome on my previous vehicle and whilst it looked good at the time of application, I found that unless I used it on a regular basis the black started to turn white :-(
Seemed to be a way of locking people in to using their product ... so I wont be using it again on my current vehicle.

This vinyl maintenance thing has arisen quite a bit recently.
Vinyl is a product made from crude oil.
When in the sun it sweats and the hydrocarbons evaporate from it.
Whilst pumping crude oil out of the ground there appeared a white greasy substance on the pump plunger shafts. It was what we know today as Vaseline.
Vaseline rubbed sparingly into surface of vinyl replaces some of what is lost and keeps it supple and it then lasts. Excess has to be buffed off with a rag to minimize dust attraction.

If you use Armourall, which has no chemical similarity to vinyl all, all it does is look nice and shiny and concentrates the UV rays onto/into the vinyl and it then cracks just as fast as if you don't use Armourall, maybe even faster.
Armourall is a silicon product and vinyl has no relationship to silicon substances. Armourall used to advertise, "Use Armourall for cracks in vinyl" they were right. Use it and it still cracks up.

Use Vaseline and all is well. There are many Vinyl roof cars and dash tops done with vinyl still ok. Non that I know of which had been done with Armourall.

Having seen evidence of this over a few decades I think Armourall is a crap product and haven't used a drop for at least 25 years.

thanks for the reply evaredy,
after a bit of surfing the net I came across the meguiars product as well in a 1 gallon container and I thought this might be the go.
sounds like your happy enough with it :-)

You never know if your happy with a product until it has done it's job on vinyl for 10 + years and still all is well.