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[speedy6464]

Noticed at the weekend that my soft top is marked and a bit faded. Looking at other posts, seems to be Renovo or Autoglym as best products Any advice? Cheers Graham

[MrSimba]

Renovo

[chris_uk]

i saw mine was looking a bit grey and mouldy, so i poured ariel washing up liquid neat onto the soft top and set to with a scrubbing brush and the hose..

cant really see but it came up nice

[Geebo]

Renovo

[LittleLofty]

I have used the Autoglym pack on previous cars and it is very good.I done the VX at the weekend but this time I used meguiars all purpose cleaner and then applied Fabsil.It is just as good and works out a bit cheaper.

[TOMVX220]

If money isnt an issue go for the Renovo 3 stage! Ive just used it on mine last week to great effect! Cleaner, then re-colour (dye) finsihed off with a re-waterproofer!

Looks great, as good as new!

[G-Bob]

i saw mine was looking a bit grey and mouldy, so i poured ariel washing up liquid neat onto the soft top and set to with a scrubbing brush and the hose..

Chris...

I'm going to add this to the "Running a VX on £5" facebook page.
Hope you don't mind?

After you are finished with the washing up liquid, spray some diluted nikwax for tents on it and it'll be super waterproof too!

Cheers

Bob

[lego_man]

The Aerospace 303 range work very well on Fabric Roof's and interior surfaces, there are 2 products to use, one to clean and then one to protect... http://www.cleanyour...r/prod_487.html http://www.cleanyour...d/prod_175.html Hope this is some help Ash

[Craig S]

i saw mine was looking a bit grey and mouldy, so i poured ariel washing up liquid neat onto the soft top and set to with a scrubbing brush and the hose..

Chris...

I'm going to add this to the "Running a VX on £5" facebook page.
Hope you don't mind?

After you are finished with the washing up liquid, spray some diluted nikwax for tents on it and it'll be super waterproof too!

Cheers

Bob

Fabsil for a large tin is approx £15, after 2 years my tin is still half full, so a quick calc works out £3.75 per year so well under the £5 could treat it to a magic tree also to get rid of the fabsil smell.

Edited by Craig S, 13 April 2010 - 10:24 AM.

[Bargi]

Does anyone apply anything to the softtop inside or doing it all to the outside is enough? Cheers Ray

[starlight]

It's normally enough to do the outside.

having said that, when I first got my car there was mould and mildew on the inside of my hood (it had been in a scrapyard over the winter with one of the windows open ), so I cleaned the inside with the Autoglym cleaner, and then treated it with the Autoglm proofer to prevent any reccurance...

[dapimp]

Autoglym for me. I have had to do my inside with the cleaner, comes up a treat.

[Zoobeef]

Autoglym gets the thumbs up from me. Like to spray the hose on the roof now to see it shooting off now haha

[Mangham54]

Autoglym gets the thumbs up from me. Like to spray the hose on the roof now to see it shooting off now haha

Girlfriend walks up to car and stands there blowing the rain off it

[fred666]

See now ive used t5he renovo kit and although it helped with waterproofing it didnt get rid of the pressure washer marksin the roof ... (Not caused by me i might add)

[Zoobeef]

Autoglym gets the thumbs up from me. Like to spray the hose on the roof now to see it shooting off now haha

Girlfriend walks up to car and stands there blowing the rain off it

Hmmm should i be embarrassed that i do that too

[cramman]

Sorry, first soft top car, and probs going to go along the lines of the renovo stuff, as I could do with the colouring, do I need the stuff for canvas roofs? Not vinyl?!

Edited by cramman, 21 April 2010 - 08:07 AM.

[techieboy]

do I need the stuff for canvas roofs?

Yes. It works a treat, revived my blue soft top nicely a couple of years back.

[cramman]

Cheers. Think I'll get some ordered.

[Sammy]

Autoglym gets the thumbs up from me. Like to spray the hose on the roof now to see it shooting off now haha

This is what I used a couple of weekends ago. Seemed to work well when I chucked some water on (not rained since and I wanted to see how well it worked!)