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ret5hd

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2. I find the same problem with certain...

Reply to intrepidity (Original post)

Thu Feb 23, 2023, 06:37 PM

Feb 2023

textured plastics…most notably our (now sold) Prius dashboard.

The damned thing had a texture that seemed designed to hold any dirt, dust or lint as if it had an adhesive. If I had sat and tried I could not have designed a surface that was more difficult to clean. Any material you cleaned it with was going to deposit as much as it picked up…paper towel, magic eraser, rag, etc.

I liked the car, hated the interior plastics.

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Unable to clean certain surfaces; a new phenomenon? [View all] intrepidity Feb 2023 OP

older surfaces have micropits and scratches that tend to hold dirt Kali Feb 2023 #1

With some of these plastics, it seems electrocharge related somehow intrepidity Feb 2023 #4

I find the same problem with certain... ret5hd Feb 2023 #2

It's as though the pressure washer and steam cleaner folks got together intrepidity Feb 2023 #6

When we had our house built in 1994, I chose a textured linoleum... 3catwoman3 Feb 2023 #3

Ugh!! I have shower tiles like that intrepidity Feb 2023 #5