Fixing STICKY BUTTONS At Home For FREE (I Try Everything)
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- If there was one thing I needed to fix on 2014 Jaguar F-Type S, it was the sticky buttons. Sticky buttons are common in early 2000s luxury cars, the switches are coated in a soft touch coating that breaks down overtime and becomes a nasty sticky goo. I searched for how to fix this and ended up with a bunch of different ideas to try out. Today we're going to buy all those things (even though you probably already have all these common items sitting around your house) and test them. No matter what happens you'll need very little of any chemical or make up wipes to get the entire car cleaned up.
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I used Turtlewax bug and tar remover on my Mercedes W220 steering wheel buttons a couple yrs ago, it took maybe 5 min for all the buttons, didn't damage the buttons and still looks perfect ;)
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It's basically the rubber coating that has lost its vulcanization. Alcohol works, as does Windex and Goo Gone. I've found that a melamine sponge (i.e. magic eraser) helps in scrubbing.
Try gazoline !
I'm glad someone finally actually made a "how-to tutorial" on sticky buttons instead of shipping everything off for someone else to fix.
I refuse to pay 2 to 3K also. Neutrogena makeup wipes have done well in my Ferrari. Big parts I simply replaced with carbon fiber ie steering column.
Like other problems in life, alcohol is the fix.
Iso alcohol is also great for tree sap! Let it dwell for 15-20 seconds on the sap spot and then wipe with the rag, it will often just melt the sap off.
I have found cooking oil works great on tree sap. The plus of the alcohol is that it has many other uses away from the car, and the bottle lasts years.
Where was this info 20 years ago when I was climbing pine trees in North Carolina.
Why would somebody pay thousands when you can just clean it with alcohol is a testinomy of having too much money
@@ivanoffw absolutely true - cooking oil is great for removing pine tree pitch. Have been using it for years. My parents have lots of pine trees, which I climbed...
And he went on ahead and put the lotion in the basket...
Using the Jag to demo is perfect. Now I know it is a common issue, not caused by anything else. Thank you!
Awesome presentation. I have encountered sticky coatings on automotive switches and low priced optics. This is one of the most helpful episodes I have viewed on YT. Thanks JR...JAG is so entitled sans the Blue Oval portion..lol
Weird, I’ve been cleaning this stuff off of joysticks and game controllers for years but had no idea they used it on cars of the same era. Makes sense I guess. Good info.
My '14 Cayman S had these on the PCM knobs. I simply pulled them off and rubbed them with an old washcloth until all the sticky crap came off.
Great video!
I'd try mixing the isopropanol 70/30 with distilled water to avoid paint coming off. I used >99% isopropanol on my Volvo buttons and it did take some paint off the corner of one button but that's about it, everything else cleaned up perfectly. Might have even been missing paint in the first place from use over the years, just covered up by goop.
I used Finish Master house brand "smart" wax and grease remover paint prep in my 2012 Jag XJL. Absolutely works better than Wd40 and isopropyl. Doesn't hurt the white labels or black paint
I went to the companies website and there are "SMART" products that I found there. But, you described the product being labeled "...wax and grease remover paint prep..." and I could find nothing labeled as such on their website. You should have dropped a direct web link in your description for the exact product you want us to find. In addition to that, there are no prices listed for the products and I see no way to buy/order the products from them. How are you supposed to get it?
Thank you for sharing your jag experience. As a f type owner it was very informative. Are you going to show us the how to for your paint detailing and is your spoiler working as it should? They are absolutely a great car to drive and enjoy!
Detailing tomorrow, and yeah, I just left the spoiler locked up 🍻
I noticed you had the gen 1 ftype like I have.
Word of advice-the buttons on the steering wheel are dreadful and we're amended on the 2015 ftype to be contoured rather than flat. The flat ones are really difficult to press and register a button press.
You can't switch the entire button assembly out because the circuit board on the button is different - but you can swap the button plastics over and the new moulding is angled enough to register the button presses.
IPA and a soft bristle tooth brush. Gets al the tight spots nice and clean too.
Simple Green maximum spray degreaser. I just did it 5 minutes before I typed this message. Took all the stickiness right off without being abrasive. Everything came off like hot butter, no scrubbing. BUT!, You need to have a few towels because that sticky stuff sticks to the towel and if you don't turn and change your towel, you end up wiping the sticky residue back on. Oh, and please use a towel that's clean and not all frayed and stuff. Used it on my 2014 Jaguar XJL Portfolio V6 supercharged 😇.
I bought in bulk alcohol swabs when I was crypto mining to remove thermal paste and it works great. Started using it to clean other items such as keyboards. It is cheap and not harsh. Use to use a spray gun with alcohol to clean car parts like brakes to save on brake clean and it is not harsh on the lungs.
Learned from the corvette community for the c5 sticky airbag cover. Use goof off and a blue scrubbing pad and it gets it off just don’t apply that much pressure.
My favorite is to use mineral spirits. Turn rag often to clean spot. Very safe on nearby materials. Then wipe down with soap and water solution.
Thanks for the information 👍, I have the same problem with my 2002 Volkswagen, I'm going to give it a try.
As a car guy, I hate to say this, but I use armorall wipes to clean off the sticky stuff. I use the no shine matte ones. It’s great on the “leather” steering wheel and works for the buttons too. Also the stalks for turn signals and wipers.
Really excited for this, I have a 2011 XJL (the S Class competitor), and these buttons being gross is the only thing that seems to date the interior. I was quoted almost 2,000 to have the cleaned and resurfaced.
Can’t wait to try some of these out, as most DIY guides are for a Mercedes, and oddly enough those don’t seem to work for Rovers and Jags with sticky buttons.
yeah, I had similar issues with an old, cheap game controller a friend gave me. I just used the isopropyl and a scour pad on a sponge, and the controller is back to new with the soft material, which was just coated in the goo.
This is amazing. I used a horrible shine protectant on my steering wheel that left it blotchy and sticky. I went straight for the rubbing alcohol and looks as good as new!
Thanks for this video!!! I own a 2012 Jag XJL with sticky buttons and have been curious how to fix them!!!
ISO would have been my guess for working well from the start. I wonder what AMMO NYC would use though. He probably has a few tricks or would at least use a soft brush to help get in the crevasses
The best I’ve found was Resolve carpet cleaner. Several years ago I bought some preowned DJing equipment for a karaoke business I was starting up, and all the wireless mics had a soft rubberized coating that had gone sticky.
I tried alcohol, adhesive remover, etc. with some success but not great. I then tried some spray on Resolve carpet cleaner, and it worked like a charm. I would recommend wearing gloves though if you try it. After a few hours of constant exposure it dried out and chapped my hands like crazy.
Did it produce any discoloration on the plastic? I tried alcohol on a black remote control and it removed the goo, but it kind of burnt it (it left a white-ish haze on it)
@@JoeOrber that plastic was left its natural color from what I can remember. I believe it was ABS, so other plastics might have a different reaction
Thanks so much for your video. I used Al ohol 70% on my 2013 Hyundai Elantra GT (aka i30 in Europe) driver door trim around the door switches. They were gunked and sticky. The alcohol pulled the stickg black gunk off and left a black plastic non sticky new looking finish. I will tape off areas with gaffers tape and apply alcohol (I may dilute the mix).
Used wintergreen ISO on my VW. Worked perfect.
I have had good luck with DeGerm. I have cleaned many interior bits in late 90's and early 2000's cars with it.
Finally. A car repair I understand. Thank you.
The 91% Isopropyl alcohol worked wonders! THANK YOU!!!!! One thing I can recommend though, use a very wet towel and rub GENTLY then repeat with a fresh piece of towel, as it will just smear if you don't use a fresh piece of towel each time. More alcohol & les pressure is the key. I rubbed through the paint in a couple spots on my steering wheel buttons. Now I have to swap those switches out.
I used talc to stop the plastic from feeling sticky, then used a scraper to get the worst of it off, then just washing up liquid neat and a nail brush.
For larger surface areas such as gooey dashboards or airbag covers, carefully/perfectly clean with 90% or higher IPA, 2 square inches at a time, and then coat with a product called "PCR Plastic Renew". The coating is a perfect way to make the plastic new again. Holds up for years when done properly and will not wash off. PCR plastic renew is not a "dressing" but an actual flexible plastic coating.
I just attacked the sticky buttons on my w211 Mercedes-Benz and I had very good luck with armor All interior detailer/cleaner and a microfiber towel. I actually put considerable pressure on it and they held up very well (++ to Mercedes) This solution seems safer than some of the other caustic materials listed elsewhere because this is formulated for your interior and even includes a UV protectant.
Looks like new now!
parking in the back and going in the service area FTW!! this is the best walmart hack and ive been doing it for years. i also check out back there as there is usually no line. its amazing!! the only things i think you cant check out in the service area are things that need to be weighed but i may be wrong just never have taken the chance. if you all arent parking in the service area you are missing out!
Just don’t be inconsiderate when parking over by the ACC and block the bays or you might get yelled at by the techs in the shop.
I usually park by the outdoor/garden department and enter through there. More parking, less people, and closer to the stuff I need. The problem is that there isn't always an open register.
Leather wipes work well, juts done the buttons and steering wheel on my Jaguar XK 5.0 .
No sticky buttons on my 20-year-old Toyota Prius! Thanks for sharing-maybe in another 20 years, I’ll need to use your trick, though I still have my doubts! 😎
I have an XJR with 17 years on top and 494.000km, plus an XKR the same old but with 160.000km. The interiors in both of them are like day one, with the exception of the saggy roof liner in the XJR (Jaguar tradition). Clearly Jaguar went to worse year by year until being kind of a walking dead right now. Such a pity, they made memorable and amazing machines and I really love them.
Have tried Spirits on plastic e.g umbrella handles & remote backs .Which is affective; quick but can damage your goods being overly aggressive on your plastic. Diluted with a water applied to rag with only a small amount of spirits applied to the rag after . As did not have Isopropyl Alcohol on hand to tryout.
I use pure glycerine: let it rest on the sticky surface for a day and it will regenerate the original feel, as new, without any stickyness.
Really?
@@itstherealone I also saw this comment and tried it, and an overnight glycerin treatment didn't accomplish anything. It might have softened the coating a bit more even. Just use IPA.
Starterfluid, dimethyl ether is what I use on car interiors, wetting the buttons and surfaces with it and then wet a microfiber cloth with it and wipe carefully and it will clean the sensitive surfaces without damage. Just keep well ventilated and no lit cigarettes nearby...
The steering wheel buttons in my Town Car and Marauder did this. I used some mineral spirits, a stiff plastic brush, and microfiber towels. A little bit of work but a HUGE improvement.
Amusingly, a 1996 Honda convertible I have seems immune to sticky button syndrome.
I think this video will go down with classics like "headlight polishing comparison" as good how to videos.
Make-up brush and talc works. It absorbs the oils without speeding up its breakup. I've used that for computer mice and tools with rubber grips but need to remove the dirt first. I leave my 'powdered up' for a few days. brush it off and generally back to normal for quite a while but nothing stops the process of decay
Get the start/stop button replaced, it's relatively cheap and takes no time to swap out.
I had the same issue as you and just replaced it.
It's the same button as most jlr cars so not bespoke to the f-type
Glad to see I'm not the only one who walks in the oil change side to buy stuff at Walmart! Well at least until they stopped selling ammo
IPA also Works on ThinkPad's to remove Finger marks. just cleaned mine.
Thanks JR.
This is a gorgeous car!
Baking soda worked for me. Mixing some water with baking soda, into a paste, then lather the paste to the sticky area. The paste will absorb the sticky oil from the surface. Sticky surface on plastic is caused by the instability of the oil.
Awesome (some crazy dollar store cleaner) works like an absolute charm on sticky buttons!! And steering wheels that are just disgusting.. yeah man awesome diluted works so well
I've found Magic Erasers work well on steering wheels. If it's leather, it's a good idea to use a leather conditioner after cleaning it, as the chemicals are quite harsh. But yes, most steering wheels are disgusting.
@Burt You're right, I've never heard of this product before, and had to do a search to see if it's something I'm familiar with. And I'm not, which means, where I live, it's not available. The store locater indicates it's sold at mainly USA Dollar stores. Although I sort of live in two countries, neither of them is the USA.
We use IPA all the time in computer repair, mainly the delamination of the older MacBook screens. I also use a product called PEEK - you can't get it everywhere but it does work. It stinks a bit so do it in a well vented area. Older mice from early 2000's also had this same issue with sticky mess. Oh, for the little corners, use cotton swabs. And indeed take your time, it does not come off immediately.
I enjoy drinking IPA at my local pub.
@@OMGWTFLOLSMH I am with ya on that - 🤣
I hard about liquid lemon acid will help. The Start Button is only a cover I think, is Chiapas to change. Thx for the Videos about the jaguar. Greetings from Austria
So would you say using something like steam with some cleaning solutions would work as well?
i already have all the stuff you used to clean them at my house. just need a jag
I’ve used both alcohol and simple green (diluted8:1) and either q-tips or a detail brush.
Never saw you so chill. That was like watching Bob Ross paint LOL
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When I owned a vacuum cleaner store we used a product called "DESOLVER" from Kleenco Co. it cleaned all the sticky and gunky stuff without harming the plastic at all.
I used some GooGone, toothpicks, my fingernail and a microfiber cloth. The great thing about the Jag buttons is the symbols/lettering is in-bedded into the button. Unlike Ferrari buttons where the lettering is the first thing to be wiped off.
Acetone worked really well for me on my Mercedes.
WD-40 isn't as good cleaner, as Lighter Fluid. It's my favorite for leaning petroleum based adhesive residue. It's not aggressive to most inks or plastics. I bet that woud be a better candidate for cleaning and prep. Any residue evaporates nicely. If so you can follow up with IPA, But, IPA can attack a lot of inks, especially with abrasion.
I always heard of Gumout and a soft toothbrush. My brother-in-law swears by acetone and a low powered nail rotary tool(my sister is a nail tech). The acetone will usually strip the paint off though usually. When I was a deckhand, the bridge deck buttons would get gummy and sticky and we used a malleable eraser they sell in art supply stores. Looks like silly putty kind of. If you mixed in some charcoal ash, that also worked pretty well, then afterwards we used leather cleaner.
Try hand sanitizer, which is gelled alcohol. It provides the same result as liquid alcohol but is dripless. That's probably what people are referring to as 'hand lotion.' I just cleaned my Protec brand mountain bike helmet that was sticky all over and it work's great ! But now shinny instead of flat black.
Mercedes had this problem too with the mid 2000s cars, I used Meguiars Ultimate Interior Detailer on a microfiber. It will eat the legends off if you're not careful though.
We use the Orange adhesive remover when we take off decals. Probably do the job. Get it at Ace.
In Canada we have a paint mess remover called “goof off”. It’s not citrus like goo gone. In fact, it smells awful. Worked amazing on sticky steering wheel buttons on an ‘06 Mercedes ML. Didn’t harm the markings on the buttons.
Goof off is excellent. I have an old tin flask of it and it’s still good.
What about Goo Gone, or a citrus based sticker residue remover? It leaves a nice citrusy scent too.
I do electronics repair as a side business, and my method on things like soft touch laptop lids from the 00's, stickers, marks, etc.. has been Goo Gone, Goof Off, or 91% IPA depending on how bad it is, and the type of plastic I'm dealing with, but with Goo Gone, or Goof Off I always have to do a final clean with IPA, or cheap Window cleaner, but I always spray whatever I'm using on a cloth first before wiping the surface.
I wonder how Goo Gone or 3M adhesive remover would do? Can touch up the one white spot on the button with a Sharpie
I would NOT use IPA(Isopropyl alcohol). It does in fact REMOVE the stickyness, but the rubber coating is gone too. IPA eats/dissolves rubber.
I used Permatex Hand cleaner with lanolin. Cleans and leaves a satin finish!
Could have used Goo Gone or Goof Off, Walmart does sell them both.
Slrayway Glass cleaner worked perfectly for me. No more sticky buttons…
Sprayway is magical... I don't know why it works so well on so many things 🤔 What car was that on?
@@WatchJRGo was actually on a remote but when I was searching for a cure to the sticky buttons everyone was saying they used this on sticky car buttons. I have used it on a few items with sticky rubber. Hard to get up here in Canada but it works great on glass too. Go figure lol!
Don't have this specific problem with any vehicles I deal with, but I have found glass cleaner a safe way to clean random things where you are unsure of the best approach.
Second on the Sprayway. Remotes, electronics, toys, and other stuff with the crappy soft-touch used from 1997-ish to 2013-ish…
Sprayway is denatured alcohol, which is very similar to the ISO alcohol JR used
This may or may not apply but you can try and use the cheap blue mouthwash to remove the residue. In the IT world I used it to remove the delaminating coating on Macbook screens. It works really well.
You need to use a thinner cloth or just one layer of your cloth to get into tighter areas. I thought you would start using cotton swabs or ear swabs.
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My car doesn't have the sticky button problem but the last time I got it detailed the person used a mix of alcohol and distilled water in a spray bottle and he sprayed it all over the surfaces and knobs and buttons and it did a great job and evaporated quickly. The headlight/turn signal stalk had brown icky stuff dripping out of the seams when he sprayed it down. The old stock stereo was nasty too. The only issue I saw is that it left some of the black plastics a hazy gray color but the black can be restored during the detailing process.
I did the alcohol treatment with an old set of headphones I loved but were absolutely sticky all over. They were so far gone I also had to use a small amount of baking soda, although I would not recommend that with painted plastic like you had to deal with. I would suspect that Alcohol is also safer to use around electrical components.
Use an adhesive remover wipes, always works. I use REMOVE universal adhesive remover by smith & nephew.
soap water or simple green and wet with q-tip or small brushes, use dry q-tips or brushes to dry it off,worked on my sedan well
eyeglass cleaning wipes may work as well
I always used armoral wipes, they work and should protect the buttons a bit as well. I have seen some paint loss/white spots on older cars from the 90s that had crazy amounts of stickiness.
Also wiping things down with armor all or something similar will help keep the buttons from fading etc
Oh don’t worry mate, I know you’ve never bought hand lotion before 😂… I tried the alcohol option on a black Walkman’s remote control and it did take the goo off, but it burnt the plastic and left it with a white-ish haze/cloudiness. I tried the remote control first so that I wouldn’t ruin the Walkman itself, which is a high-end Sony Walkman from Japan with full-logic mechanism. I guess I will try the makeup remover wipes on it to be on the safe side, I read somewhere that a paste of water and baking soda could work too, have you tried it by any chance? Anyway, great video, thanks for sharing 😊
Any tricks for getting scratches out of hard plastic interior door panels?
My SN95 Mustang ‘vert, the whole door panel insert was sticky. This would have been good to know twenty years ago.
I’ve used denatured alcohol for button/control cleaning, doing test areas is very important, some covering is chemical sensitive.👍
Thanks my stereo presets were sticking on my old f150. Gonna try this.
This problem is very much alive and well in 2022 - a LOT of vehicles have soft-touch materials that will degrade quickly. My 2017 SantaFe had soft touch plastics that were already degrading in 2021!
Every time I think "I wish these buttons in my car were more luxurious" I will remember this video.
It is more likely that nail polish remover wipes (non acetone) will work best, However they may be a bit aggressive,
I get this with computer plastics sometimes. I use WD40 to clean off all the broken down plastic on the surface ( that is sticky ) and then clean well with ISO 91% to clean up the WD40 residue.
I'll give it a try. I have an old MS force feedback 2 joystick that has gone very sticky, but annoyingly is still the finest joystick ever made, alcohol just seems to make the problem worse and vigorous cleaning just led to the coating peeling off. I'll try wd40. Failing that I'll just strip the sticky coating off completely and wrap the thing in bicycle handlebar wrap.
My jag is a x100 so has 99 problems but sticky buttons aren't one lol thank fck
@@throwback19841 if the WD40 and 91% ISO doesn't work all the way, I use clear nail polish to cover over the parts and it stops the sticky and doesn't wear off. I have done that with a few dslr cameras where the grip gets all soft and sticky. WD40, 91% ISO and then clear NP on top fixes it. I still have an old Nikon D70 I did it to maybe 5 or 6 years ago that is still holding up just fine.
Fretboard 65 works great, just takes a lot of patience. You cover the button with it, let it sit for a minute or two and wipe off. I’ve used it with a ton of success.
Dunlop Fretboard 65 is just mineral oil with some lemon essence added.
Use Q-tipscwith the alcohol. It's much more gentle on the buttons.
“Simple green “ works and is a little less scary… I had good results on an 06 Maserati gransport with it. The seat backs were a huge issues in the car and a concentrated dose of simple green stripped them and allowed me to wrap them.
Another great video from JR. Thanks
Great video! What about degreaser?
Thanks for this video! I shared it with my dad and he used 70% isopropyl alcohol and completely removed the sticky on my Mom's ML350 steering wheel buttons today!
Is that sticky stuff under the lift parts of the button as well?
Alcohol worked well for sure. I probably would have tried goo-b-gone - has anyway tried that? I've used it on a number of things and it has done well but have not tried it on switches. Enjoyed the video. Good info!
If I got them clean and free from stickiness is there any product that could be put on them after to protect them again?
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Detail brush might be less harsh than the microfiber?