white cockpit seat stain

tundra250

I have a purple stain on my seat. I guess from suntan lotion. I tried to remove it but it won't come out. Anyone have any ideas...

TikiHut2

Did a quick forum search for "vinyl" and this discussion came up(see link). There's some good input. Good luck. Mike

LINK

Black_Diamond

Mr clean erasers or try baking soda with water as a paste. Some of the oxyclean ones work well too, just try it on a hidden spot first.

TikiHut2

The input from the link above was worth the read. The best input was from a PDF that Steve linked to from the Rinker vinyl supplier....(LINK)  

It discouraged many types of cleaners, most of which I'd think would've been a good idea, but would eventually have a damaging effect in the long term. It boiled down to Aerspace 303 cleaner/protectant as the one to use. I just happened to have some left over from an inflatable dinghy I renewed and it's the right stuff.

Hope that helps. Good luck, Mike

tundra250

Thanks guys, I used an all purpose cleaner and then some 303 Aero and it didn't remove the stain...I went back to the boat a week later and the stain was gone.....Go figure

Dream_Inn

Sounds like the sun may have helped you out.  Either way, that's great news! >-

212rowboat

glad you got it taken care of..... and now that it's over with, I just gotta say:

there are so, many, directions a title of a thread like this one could have gone... :-D

Dream_Inn

Oh my!!  I had to get off the floor from laughing!  I never even saw that one coming (no pun intended)!

Lifes Good

fyi for future reference. if you take a damp sponge and a bit of comet and gently rub most hard stains will come out. it may take a few applications but it works. then apply a conditioner to keep the vinyl from drying out. it also works great to get the blue dye out from someone sitting on the seats with new blue jeans.

Lifes Good

oh by the way. the spot you clean will be brighter because the rest of the cushion is slighty dirty. so you may end up doing the entire seating area.... just saying... >-

Capt_Steve

Probably wouldn't hurt to repost this...it's the cleaning/care recommendations from the Rinker vinyl supplier.

Michael T

I had a ball point pen ink mark on the white vinyl seat of my 2011 Rinker 226XL. It looked nasty. The repair guy at the dealer said leave it alone for two weeks - don't touch the thing with anything. If it doesn't break down and fade to nothing I'll take a look at it - but for now anything I do will probably make it worse unless I remove all of the color entirely from the area and re apply new color. Do you want to pay $150.00 now or wait? I waited, it disappeared, I bought him a six pack. MT

raybo3

I find that most stains will disappear on there own. Same thing happened to me with a pen.

Michael T

The admiral had a red tie dye top that left pinkish stains on a new white vinyl seat a few years back. I was all set to try toothpaste, Zud, Old Dutch or something when an old salt on a boat nearby told me to leave it alone for awhile as the stain would break down a lot with just the exposure to the sun. He was right. After a month or so it went away 99% .  I thought I could still see a little bit of a stain but my buddies (and the admiral) all thought I was nuts. MT