sup guys so today coming at you with a little how-to so as some of you already
probably know I'm trying to finish the goose for foxed over fist
got a lot to do I'm gonna paint the molding still probably and give this
thing a buff and a wax but one of the things I'm working on is the door panels
so the door panels out in the armrest and so one of the big problems with
these cars because it's like 30 some-odd years old is that when these interior
parts sit they get this really nasty sticky like goo that comes out of the
parts themselves and I don't know what it is I'm a Wyatt does it but I do know
how to fix it so that's what I'll show you today that one's already done it's
nice and ready nice and clean ready to go back in the car and show you the
passenger side so as you can see it kind of looks normal but this darkness here
they've got this like kind of gooey feel to it and that's probably why it's dark
you kind of just collect dirt dirt and dust that sticks to it and pound leaves
this kind of leaves this shiny shiny stickiness on my fingers colleagues
that's like an oil almost and on the other side it actually leaked down
underneath here when I took it off there was like this wetness of goo it just
kind of seeped out of this piece here now the door panels themselves aren't
that bad at least on the Fox bodies but this piece right here is just horrible
nastiness I think that you run into this on a lot of different vehicles not just
the Mustangs
I mean I will be honest this is not my doing this action this idea actually
came from Tom's turbo garage if you're familiar that channel he did he did a
special on an import that he'd bought and it had that stickiness throughout
the whole car so he tried different all kinds different cleaners couldn't find
anything and ended up finding on a forum I guess that was pretty prominent in
that particular vehicle found on a form that you can use soda crystals so he put
on that cheeky soda crystals I knew that I had the issue inside like sweet I'm
gonna find some sort of crystals well that's where I ran into a small issue so
looked everywhere for soda crystals couldn't find them and what it is is I
think they don't call them soda crystals anymore they still use the chemical the
chemical is do that stuff
so basically while I was in the store I just googled what is what our soda
crystals and basically what I got was that they are sodium carbonate so when
you google what is what our soda crystals
it basically says it's sodium carbonate so I just look for chemically you know I
just look for cleaning agents that were made of sodium carbonate and what I
found is that's what oxy clean is now oxy clean has another chemical makeup in
it called sodium percarbonate I figured they'd worked the same because I
couldn't find any soda crystals I tried that and what I did was I just mixed a
scoop of that stuff into a squirt bottle with some warm water and spread on those
panels and it worked awesome that stuff literally just kind of melted away more
so than any other cleaner would have been able to do the only thing that I
had to do after the fact was put some like trim shine on it this particular
piece here kind of had this kind of just like white mist inside the little cracks
of the fake vinyl you know fake vinyl itself is not perfectly smooth it kind
of has this pattern to it and it made these like little white pieces inside
that so well trim shine fix that hang up it's good to go getting ready to do the
other side anyway little quick tip little little how-to how to clean the
sticky icky off some old interior partly and thanks to Tom's turbo garage
OxiClean will get the job done mixing some water there are some other things
to primarily like soda crystals are used to clean washers and dishwashers and
that sort of thing you like run a cycle without anything else you put this stuff
in there supposed to clean all the crevices of a washer or a dishwasher or
whatever it is that's Merilee so if you're looking for for
this stuff and you can't find OxiClean or you don't want to use OxiClean just
basically go look for stuff that's made to clean dishwashers or washing machines
look at the ingredients if it has that sodium carbonate in it then that is a
soda crystal and then the other thing is too is obviously I'm no professional so
if basically try it on a small portion of your interior before you go soak in
the whole thing just to make sure that's not gonna have some kind of ill effect
but there you go I gotta get to work not gonna be a long video little tech
tip for you guys
sodium carbonate or soda crystals clean the sticky iki off your door panels