I Recently purchased a 2004, 228. The previous owner who lives in S. Florida wisely kept the cushions in his garage when not in use in an effort to keep the mold/mildew at bay.
The day before I was to come over for a sea trial the owner was working so he ask his wife to get the cushions out and make sure they are all there. When she got them out and was looking them over she thought they didn't look as white as they should. She didn't know they are not supposed to be bright white. She thought they had darkened from age and did a search on google about how to clean boat seats. She just happened to read one of those articles about spray painting the vinyl to make them look new. Bless her heart, she thought she was helping. The cushions were in decent condition till she did that. Well, except for the rear backrest cushions. He had to learn the lesson about not towing with them in place the hard way. None of the piping is worn and no ripped seams. Now they have a creepy feel to them and she must have bought the cheapest paint available because in the high humidity we have, the surface continues to have a sort of tacky feel. When they touch together for awhile, like when you stack them, they kinda stick together. I am hoping someone here knows how to remove the paint without damaging the vinyl. I have some Citrus paint stripper but that says not to use it on vinyl. It's talking about house siding but no doubt, vinyl is vinyl. Thought about acetone but I'm not sure how that would affect the material either. If you have knowledge about this, please help.
You can see they are too white.
Here, you can see here where it stuck to another cushion and pulled off some paint showing the factory color underneath.
On this one, she forgot to spray the backside so the original color is obvious.
The day before I was to come over for a sea trial the owner was working so he ask his wife to get the cushions out and make sure they are all there. When she got them out and was looking them over she thought they didn't look as white as they should. She didn't know they are not supposed to be bright white. She thought they had darkened from age and did a search on google about how to clean boat seats. She just happened to read one of those articles about spray painting the vinyl to make them look new. Bless her heart, she thought she was helping. The cushions were in decent condition till she did that. Well, except for the rear backrest cushions. He had to learn the lesson about not towing with them in place the hard way. None of the piping is worn and no ripped seams. Now they have a creepy feel to them and she must have bought the cheapest paint available because in the high humidity we have, the surface continues to have a sort of tacky feel. When they touch together for awhile, like when you stack them, they kinda stick together. I am hoping someone here knows how to remove the paint without damaging the vinyl. I have some Citrus paint stripper but that says not to use it on vinyl. It's talking about house siding but no doubt, vinyl is vinyl. Thought about acetone but I'm not sure how that would affect the material either. If you have knowledge about this, please help.
You can see they are too white.
Here, you can see here where it stuck to another cushion and pulled off some paint showing the factory color underneath.
On this one, she forgot to spray the backside so the original color is obvious.
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), scrub as mentioned and then it the vinyl looks shot, use the vinyl spray.
