What do you all recommend for taking care of the wood in the interior? I would like to make sure (ideally) that UV is reduced while protecting it. Ideally maybe a little polishing, but secondary to the above.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Haasman

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303 aerospace protectant.

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Any car wax or furniture paste wax works fine.

Placo1 used piano polish and got good results.

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Paul S.

2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".

Car wax and the occasional 303 protectant overspray gets on it and I buff it...shines deep!

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Cory's Piano Polish

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the wood coatings are similar to those on the paint. Zymol has a specific product for use on poly. it works quite well. Stay away from solvent based products.

This is a nice product to work with:

http://www.emmonscoachworks.com/ecommerce/shopDetails.cfm?p=5395&cat=4

Which is how Meguiar's got started in the car care products business.

They made furniture polish, and noticed that people were polishing their cars with their furniture polish.

Early cars had laquer finishes, and car manufacurers were using the same laquers that were used on furniture.

It was before my time, but do remember guys talking about a hand rubbed laquer finish on the car?

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Paul S.

2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".

Well this is really interesting, and I'm glad I caught it. I had some light cracks in my climate control surround on the 202, and one day a piece on the side snapped and bowed out about 3 inches. I pulled the panel and the wood let god and had a definite outward/concave bend to it. I used Klasse on it for 3 years, which I just realized is petroleum-based. I wonder if it weakened the finish or penetrated to the wood?

I got a nicely-used replacement, and will polish it with my Meguiars from now on. I thought I was making good use of the Klasse, which was an old bottle left over for use on a former car

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