SEMA 2016 Video: RaggTopp Convertible Top Care

[Mike Phillips]

SEMA 2016 Video: RaggTopp Convertible Top Care


In this video we meet Rick Goldstein the President and CEO of RaggTopp and he walks us through the products and the process to clean and protect canvas and vinyl convertible tops.


RaggTopp Convertible Top Care with Rick Goldstein





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[FUNX650]

The AGO forum's RaggTopp videos
are some of my favorites.

As an example...here's one
from ~6 1/2 years ago:

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/...tible-top.html




Bob

[Mike Phillips]

The AGO forum's RaggTopp videos
are some of my favorites.

Bob

Thanks Bob!

For what it's worth I do my best to always have two convertibles in our car detailing classes, one with a canvas top and one with a vinyl top and then we go over the correct procedures for cleaning and protecting both types.

[Mike Phillips]

Also, here is one of the most in-depth how-to articles I've ever written on any car detailing topic...


NEW Haartz/RaggTopp Convertible Top Brush - How to clean and protect a convertible top



Haartz/RaggTopp Convertible Top Brush





With all kinds of tips like this one...


How to correctly dry a convertible cloth top

Just like you don't want to scrub a stiff brush against a convertible cloth top to avoid fraying or tearing the fibers free from the weave, you also don't want to scrub or wipe water off a convertible top.

Instead you want to use the blotting technique with a drying chamois like the Cobra Guzzler HD Waffle Weave Drying Towel . The Guzzler HD has a 1/4" inner foam core sandwiched between the soft, absorbent microfiber waffle weave outside.




Blot the water off of and out of the convertible cloth top

To blot water off of and even remove water OUT OF the cloth material, place a Guzzler HD onto a section of the top and then firmly press down over the surface of the Guzzler HD. Allow for a few seconds for the water on and in the top to move through capillary action into the Guzzler HD.






The dark patch mimicking the shape of the Guzzler HD is almost dry as most of the water has moved from the top into the Guzzler HD.







And this one...