Hey guys, so I peeled my windshield tint off and was dealing with the grueling task of removing the glue. I tried goo gone and a bunch of other stuff that didnt work at all then I saw someone suggest using carburetor cleaner and a razor, so thats what I did. Besides needing a couple stitches afterward the job wasnt so bad. I had put some towels down on the dash to prevent all the gunk from getting everywhere and when i removed the towels I noticed some glue had got on the dash, so i used a little carb cleaner on a rag and wiped it off, no biggie right? WRONG. When it dried it looked like this...
I tried hitting it with some armor all but it just keeps drying and looking the same way, any ideas before I spend like $300 replacing dash panels?

 

Seriously dude? Who told you to do that lol. You may now need a new dash. I have no solution. On the other hand, why did you peel the tint off? Was it because it was to dark to see at night?

 

First of all, all you need to remove window tint is rubbing alcohol on a terry cloth and a blow dryer/heat gun. There was no need to spray the window directly with carb cleaner ( not saying that you did, doesn't matter now).

Looks like you dried out the dash with the carb cleaner. I would first go over the effected area with a wet towel. Then use some dash conditioner to see if you can at least hide the damage that is already done. Something like this should be reversible. Armor all tends to evaporate too quickly to hide anything.

I always push Black Magic products for interior/dash protector.

Good luck!

-pal215

 

Sick of being harassed by the cops have 5% all around with 35% on the winsheild so it was pretty blacked out. Wouldve been better paying for a ticket than all these new panels lol

 

Try some 303 Aerospace before getting a new dash.

 

Gonna be wayyyy more than 300 lol. Try some back to black first

 

if you cant get it to come out I would see if you could vinyl wrap it instead of buying new panels

 

Vinyl wrap a textured part? :-/

Time to get it flocked!

 

Dealers saying that big panel is like $120, and like $30 for the one on top of the instrument cluster. But I dont even know how to go about taking the thing apart. What a nightmare

 

I'd say give Meguiar's Ultimate Black Plastic Restorer a shot.

 

he is right , its a good excuse for that. But also I know some people actually painting they dash. It is a way cheaper solution then getting a new dash.

Some paint job looks really nice. One guy did painted matte black his dash in the STI. Looked really sharp. I just don't have a picture. You can do the whole dash matte black and the Front windshield pillars. That i think would look amazing

 

What he said....would be a good opportunity to paint them....would look good if done right.

 

Back to black and similar products will most likely fix that.

 

dang what kind of glue was it that Goo-gone didn't work? I removed my tint as well because it was hard as **** to see through at night and the glue just scraped right off with goo gone

 

This all day.