Crumbling Foam
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On the drive back from getting the dents taken out of the Dino, I felt like I was driving through a sand storm! With both windows open, I noticed a lot of dust flying around. I had this happen before on another Dino, and it was the old foam inside the sun visors raining down into my eyes. I looked up while driving this car and found the visors intact and the foam still in good shape. I suffered through the sand storm and made a note to look closer at the problem.
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When I got out of the car, I noticed everything was covered in powder, and realized it was coming from the back panel of the car.
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I could see the foam behind the panel was crumbling to dust and blowing all over the place.
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I carefully removed the leather panel and found the source of the sandstorm.
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I vacuumed up all the loose foam and scrubbed off as much as I could. Original cars like this are neat, but the downside is some of the original materials are well past their service life!
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Since the seats had to come out to access the rear panel, I did a little bit of cleaning.
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I believe these seats were dyed at one point in the past, but there was also a lot of dirt embedded into the leather.
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I tried my best to get some of this dirt out of the seats to give the interior a little brighter look than the dirty brown it had turned into.
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Using some mild soap and a toothbrush, I worked on releasing some of the dirt. After cleaning, I applied some leather conditioner to keep the leather from drying out.