[kenny]

jjboncik1,
Did I tell uyou about my Armorall experience? I bought a new Nissan Sentra (while going to college) back in 1983. I took such good care of that car, washing, waxing, oil changes every 3000 mi etc. I drove it to 140K mi. untill a texas hail storm (hail nearly as big as a baseball) took it out.

One of the things I did was to treat the vinal dash and sets with Armorall. Two years after I bought the car the entire interior was hard and cracked -- I had to replace the dash, and all the seat covers with new ones. Since I stopped using Armorall I've never had it happen again. I personally would never use Armorall because I've heard that it contains (or used to anyway -- and I haven't heard about any change) some petroleum distillates that break down the vinal over time.

Having said that, your engine hoses and such are not exposed to the sun (which I believe exacerbated the problem) and are pretty thick rubber so maybe you won't have this problem. I've swiched to 303 aerospace protecterant for all my interior needs (except leather), but as of yet, have not tried it on the engine compartment.

Anybody using something else on the engine compartment?