Sio2 interior Protestant for vinyl and plastic

[DetailZeus]

I think you need to ask what you actually want from your protection. Si02 products seem great at beading water. Do you need your interior to bead water?

[Demonicus666]

I think you need to ask what you actually want from your protection. Si02 products seem great at beading water. Do you need your interior to bead water?

Want to protect the interior for several months at a time to be honest

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[rlmccarty2000]

Why can’t you mention the name here?

Forum rules. Only products sold by AG are allowed to be discussed. The Autopia forum allows all product discussion.

[rlmccarty2000]

I think you need to ask what you actually want from your protection. Si02 products seem great at beading water. Do you need your interior to bead water?

SiO2 containing products do more than just bead water. They can provide UV protection, help prevent scratches/marring, etc.

[WristyManchego]

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Ah jeez. Didn’t realise this was meant to be a fan club.

[DetailZeus]

SiO2 containing products do more than just bead water. They can provide UV protection, help prevent scratches/marring, etc.

In the context of interior products I'd question if the Si02 would make any difference. I don't think you'll see 9H hardness on a product for vinyl.

[rlmccarty2000]

In the context of interior products I'd question if the Si02 would make any difference. I don't think you'll see 9H hardness on a product for vinyl.

With a SiO2 spray product you shouldn’t expect any hardness whether it be on paint or interior plastics. Most contain 5% or less SiO2. Mostly a SiO2 spray only provides gloss and slickness and it is the polymers and/or resins creating the gloss. SiO2 has become a buzzword similar to Teflon (PFTE) or Polycharger.

[DetailZeus]

With a SiO2 spray product you shouldn’t expect any hardness whether it be on paint or interior plastics. Most contain 5% or less SiO2. Mostly a SiO2 spray only provides gloss and slickness and it is the polymers and/or resins creating the gloss. SiO2 has become a buzzword similar to Teflon (PFTE) or Polycharger.

We're on the same page here. All I'm suggesting for the OP is he focus on the results and not the ceramic or Si02 buzzwords. For shiny, scratch sensitive piano black or wood trim I could see the usefulness extra slickness could provide. But I'm not going to waste my blackfire Si02 on my dashboard or vinyl seats because all I need is a matte, non-greasy finish. And I can achieve that with much cheaper products.

[Boudin]

Carpro Perl is a silica plastics protectant as well as Ech20. I use both on interiors for its UV protective qualities. I imagine the new Elixir, once released, will be even better on interiors.

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[itsgn]

So I'm surprised no one has made a cermaic sio2 interior protectant for interior vinyl and plastics. They have sio2 products for leather , upholstery, and fabrics why not plastic??

It's because plastics already have all the properties that a ceramic coating could offer. They repel water and they are relatively scratch resistant (actually, more so, than most SiO2 coatings). On the other side they're also flexible which ceramic coatings are not. And they're also often textured, which would make it impossible for a degraded coating to be polished off.

That said there are excellent SiO2 dressings for interior plastics (like CarPro PERL), which have none of the drawbacks of coatings, but work really well and are almost as durable as the latter, because on the inside of the car, they're less subject to the elements.