Chris
Armor all is notorious for many reasons. Yes, it dries out vinyl.
Apparently leaches out the "natural" oils.  It also turns any surface
it's applied to into a dust magnet, makes seats and steering wheels
very slippery etc etc.   Never use it again. Learned the hard way of
course.
On 9-Feb-06, at 1:05 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> ps, what did the Armor All do to the dash??
>
> i had my dash in my Audi crack after years of armor all use.   my
> mom, who
> never cleaned her dash, never had a problem, and her Audi sat
> ungaraged for
> years in the elements.
>
> is armor all destructive to vinyl??
>
> ps, i have  nice brown or black dashpads if anyone needs them..no
> cracks..
> chris