Not to highjack your thread...adding something to it........
Another organic oil that has uses on our Vanagons is Peanut Oil.   I use it
on the exhaust system of my van, should probably do about once a month, but
I do it when I have the van inside for some other work...It helps with
rusting of the mild steel exhaust...

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> I've done this before, but not with as much effect as today. That is using
> mineral oil on the dash and other plastic bits. I found an old bottle of
> heavy mineral oil ( USP, laxative) and applied it fairly generously to the
> dash. Let it sit a spell then buffed off. Did a nice job. But what really
> pleased me was how it restored the chalky door handles and handbrake cover.
> I have the self destructing brown plastic in my van and nothing I have used
> on it before has been quite as good as the mineral oil.
>
>
> Alistair
>