A buddy of mine uses Olive oil on his Bay Window dashes when he restores them and they look great. Not shiny , just normal looking clean . 

                              Stacy

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> On Nov 17, 2014, at 9:29 AM, Marc Perdue <mcperdue@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I should be getting my van back from the painter next week and I've
> been thinking of all those parts that are going to look so drab
> against the new paint. The dash is, of course, the biggest and most
> visible. Does anybody know a way to get the dash to look like new
> again, and to hopefully stay that way for a while? I'm not really
> interested in that high-gloss Armor-All look . . .
> 
> The funny thing is, I was thinking about this and wondered if anybody
> had ever put liquid shoe polish on their dash? Would this work, or be
> bad for the dash? My gut's telling me that it should go the way of all
> crazy ideas, but I just don't know what the dash material is and what
> chemicals could hurt it or not. Oh, I also want to treat the
> instrument panel cover.
> 
> Open to ideas . . .
> 
> Thanks,
> Marc Perdue, in central VA