Other notes included smell, residue, and drying patterns.Īfter all of the cleaners completed that test, we wiped a chunk of semi-soft butter on the dashboard.
We began by testing each cleaner on a separate section of equally dirty dashboard and door panel and noted how quickly the cleaner cut through the dirt and grime. We purchased a large pack of new microfiber cloths for this test to ensure each cleaner had an equal chance to clean. He's driven the thing all over the place, and it's accumulated its fair share of interior grubbiness in its three decades of existence. We didn't want to use a new car, so we settled on a semi-legendary 1990 Geo Tracker owned by Car and Driver's very own Dave Beard.
We wanted a mix of typical grime and simulated messes in our test vehicle for this evaluation.
