All right, on today's short, quick video, I'm going to go ahead and try to clean out some of these
console buttons here, where pop has spilled and gotten nasty. And see if we can bring them back to life. So stay tuned!
All right, so today's video is pretty simple. What I'm going to try to do is get these
buttons unstuck. This whole console section on the Mercedes sits right behind the cup holders.
And the cup holders obviously holding pop and everything like that, tend to spill back on these buttons.
So, maybe you hit a bump and a can of pop will splash back on these buttons. And this back button and this
favorite button has gotten super sticky around the edge, sometimes to the point where you can't even
click it down. It just feels like it's gooey underneath. So, what I'm going to do is, attempt to try
to dissolve some of the stuff underneath it. Most of the time, all the videos on the internet show
people actually taking the console apart and doing it that way. I'm going to try with a set of Q-tips.
I got these little applicator pointed Q-tips. I'm going to take some of these Q-tips
and some alcohol, I just had 70% isopropyl alcohol or as people call it-- IPA. I have it sitting around.
So I'm going to use that. And then I'm also going to try...my bright idea was, use some floss as well.
So, I'm going to dab a little bit of alcohol down in, around the button, and then I'm going to
attempt to get some floss underneath there, to kind of floss all that crap out of there, and
dip that down in the alcohol as well. So, we'll see how it goes. Just make a quick video on it and see
if I can make this happen. So, we'll take floss and go down in between it. Let's go ahead and
get it a little bit wet with the Q-tips. Get this bag open. I'll probably just do one Q-tip. I'm not going to
overly saturate the buttons. Some people have talked about spraying cleaners down in it,
and soaking the area around the buttons with cleaner, and letting it get down in there.
I'm purely just trying to get a little bit of alcohol in between these buttons. And get down in there.
Work it down in there. And then we'll get after it with the floss here. So that is my idea for the project.
I'm not going crazy with the alcohol. Just enough to get down in there.
I was worried about it maybe bleaching out some of the clear protective coating on the buttons.
I guess will jump that hurdle when it comes. So, I'm going to do it about three times. Get a good
amount of alcohol underneath the edge of the button. And then we'll go through here
and we'll see what the floss does. It's the best idea I could come up with to get underneath the buttons,
without taking the console apart. So, let's see what this does. Close my alcohol of course.
And we'll take a piece of floss. We'll see if we can work it down underneath this button.
So, might need a little Q-tip, or a little paperclip, or some kind of something,
to work it down around this corner. I know that once I get it underneath the corner, it will be easy going.
But it's a matter of getting it down underneath there. So, let's see if I can...
It already seems to be a...that alcohol seems to have broken down whatever goo is in there already.
I'm getting a lot more push-ability out of the buttons already. So that's exciting.
So I'm hoping that getting this floss down around here will just further help my cause.
I don't know if it's a good idea or not. Of course, I didn't get the idea from anyone specific.
So, it's just kind of something I came up with. We'll see if we can get this down underneath
the edge of the button. And get it flossed out. Might not even be able to get it down in there.
Might not even be able to get it down in there.
Okay. Here we go! So just the pointed Q-tip got me pretty close.
Okay, I'm going to try that again. Shove it down around there, around the corner. Once I get it in on one side,
it'll be a piece of cake for the rest of the console because it'll already be
underneath the plastic. So, I've got that down in there pretty far. I'm going to try to use a
piece of this plastic here, to get it the rest of the way. All right! There we go! Okay, so I got
my floss down in around the button. All right, let's go ahead and move this through here.
All right. Yeah, you can tell there's a lot of gunk because it's coming out on the floss.
So, let's see what we can do here.
I'm going to try to put a little bit of alcohol on the floss. And we'll see how that goes.
All right. Let's go ahead and put that down in there.
Plastic was a good idea.
All right. Work it down in there. All right, now we have alcohol on the floss. And I'm just
using it to pull around the edges of these buttons.
That one's feeling great now.
So I could tell from when I was pushing it, that it was just up here, at the very front of the button,
where most of the crap had gotten down in there. So that's where I was concentrating most of my energy,
was with the floss around the front of that button. This one feels like it could use
a little bit more. I'm going to go ahead and get another Q-tip going here. So simple, little fix
without taking the console apart. We'll see how it holds up after a couple days of drying out.
Some of it might be the cleaner I used. I was using Chemical Guys All Clean
and it's supposed to be diluted 20 to 1 for interior use. And I've noticed that that cleaner,
that all-purpose degreaser and cleaner is really, really sticky. So, some of the problem might be me working
some of that cleaner down in there. So I worked some more alcohol down in here around this button.
Apparently when you hit the power button it works. So, just by doing a little bit of Q-tipping,
I'd say we're really pretty close to calling it good. It has completely freed up the button.
So, that was a real quick fix. I was anticipating the worst on it because...and when I have to take apart
the console, I'm not afraid to do it, but just a lot of time and effort just for a button
that's a little sticky. So that just worked that alcohol down in through there while it's still wet.
That floss definitely helped that side of the button. It's a really tall button. The sides of it are really tall.
So it was just getting down in between the plastic part and the actual button.
So, I'm going to go ahead and go get some cleaner. And I'm going to wipe it off and call that project done.
Took a little five minutes and got it cleaned up to the point where I'm happy with it.
So quick little video. Just something I was getting aggravated with while riding in the car.
Just little stupid stuff. So, hopefully tonight I'm going to...more than likely going to pull the Corvette out.
And I'm going to get it shined up because it is warm enough outside right now
that I can wash a car outside. So it's kind of nice. Probably pull the Corvette out,
shine it up. And then maybe later, I'll look at doing a shop tour, something like that. So coming up soon,
we'll do a shop tour. I'll take you guys around the shop, and show you guys that. But thanks for watching.
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