Thunderbird Raggtopp Fabric Cleaning and Protectant Kit

RAGGTOPP Fabric Cleaner
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Tips For Cleaning Your Light Colored Tbird Soft Top

Here is some great information from one of our fellow members at the TBN forum;

"I have a Cashmere with the Light Stone top. I had the same thing on mine. Drove me crazy, I tried everything, I tried the carwash with presoak, Raggtop Cleaner, 303, even tried Woolite. Seems like I could get some of it, dried looking nice but still visible when wet. Not long after, the spots that showed wet would start to get darker again.

I started researching, found a website of Haartz, one of the leading
makers of the cloth / canvas top material. I was able to ask the question and get help with cleaning mine. Seems it was actually mildew, all my claening was taking care of the surface mildew, but not killing it's growth in the weave of the canvas, and more visible when wet. Soon all I had killed was growing back due to not killing it down in the weave.

Their solution freaked me out. But I decided to try it because I had reached the point of replacing the top. Their soltution was mix 1/4 cup of Raggtop Cleaner, 1/2 cup of bleach, yes bleach, and 1 gallon of water. The bleach is what freaked me out. They assured me, wet the top first, sponge the cleaning solution all over, let stand for minium of 20 minutes, don't let it dry, if you need, keep sponging on to keep wet. Then rinse it throughly. It worked, I had to do a few spots a second time. My top looks like new, it even cleaned up the areas where the creases are from folding. I followed it with a good washing with the ragtop cleaner to make sure there was no beach residue left.

After it dried good, I was amazed the difference, didn't beach or change the color at all. I put several applications of the water proofing / sealant on. It looks like it did three years ago when I bought the car.

It's nerve racking to put bleach on the top, but I trusted Haartz and tried it. I would do it again if needed. I'm tryingh to be more diligent cleaning and putting on the sealent.

Be careful with the bleach on your boot. The tops are canvas, cotton, tight twill. My '05 boot seems to be more synthetic and might be damaged by bleach. I cleaned mine with resolve carpet cleaner. Worked great, but my boot wasn't extremely dirty."

-TBN member, Bradford in Florida.

SOME FEEDBACK FROM OTHER MEMBERS;

"I tried this out today on my Sand soft top and I am blown away on how this works! I changed the formula just a bit, But it works better than any other fabric cleaner I have tried. That includes 303 and Ragg Topp. Now all I have to do is treatment sealer and I am good to go!.............................Thanks for the tip Bradford"

-TBN member, Mike in PA.