Removing Vinyl Dye

[Bob_D]

I had a 68 Corvette interior that had two separate coatings of vinyl dye over the original Dark Orange interior. You could clearly see the build-up. I used a water soluble paint stripper and it worked very well. Followed up by I think mineral spirits. Forgive the lack of detail, this was over 20 years ago. After stripping all the vinyl pieces I re-dyed them to the correct color. The original surfaces were fine, but very faded so they needed re-dye. When done the car was a Triple Crown Award winner.

[Starship]

I've removed black dye from an entire 1968 Nova interior (except headliner) with thinner and tooth brushes. Very labor intensive but worth it when the beautiful original Ivy Gold was revealed. Even did the metal dash and plastic on the column with no harm at all. Headliner was too porous for the process to work.