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This one still makes me shake my head and ask, "WHAT WAS I THINKING?"
The weather-strip around the base of my old 911SC Targa's rear window was looking cracked and dry. I got out the bottle of ArmorAll and sprayed it on the rubber. A light bulb went off over my head, "HEY, LET IT SIT AND SOAK IN" in big letters, scrolled across the great idea lobe of my brain.
So, I left the ArmorAll sitting on the rubber, a nice even white coat of liquid. Overnight should be enough time to let that stuff perform its magic on that dried rubber.
Next morning, I turn on the lights in the garage and see that all the ArmorAll has proceeded to run down the rubber seal, pool and the base of the targa bar and run down the fender over the paint. When I wiped it off the paint, I found the paint had been eaten off DOWN TO THE PRIMER!!!!
Words cannot describe my anguish. A self-inflicted wound of the worst kind. How would I describe such stupidity to the guy at the bodyshop?
Well, the bodyshop was rather unemotional about taking my money to repaint it. However the story doesn't end there. ArmorAll and paint don't get along very well and with the best efforts of the bodyshop, several nice deep fisheyes appeared close to the targa window's weather-strip above the engine lid. ArmorAll kept weeping out of the weather-strip and made paint prep nearly impossible.
Yep, ArmorAll performed a miricle on my targa window weatherstripping because by the time I was finished it looked brand-new because it was!
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