COVID-19 — Disinfecting Motor Vehicle Interior Surfaces

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Rdr854

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Dealerships are now advertising that they will be wiping down interior surfaces of new cars between test drives and before and after service department work. I understand the importance of disinfecting for both employee and customer safety. In reading the can for most wipes, it says for hard nonporous surfaces (e.g., glass, metal, plastic). Of course, leather being cow hide, it is not nonporous.

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Will these wipes harm leather surfaces (steering wheels and seats)?

Is there a better way to disinfect?
 

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I don't think anything containing alcohol, ammonia or a bevy of other disinfecting chemicals should be applied to leather.

Also, I want my new car to smell like a new car, not Ajax or Everclear.
 

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depending on what they will use... it will probably mess w/ the leather
 

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Just about all "leather" in automobiles today is either urethane-coated leather or vinyl. Unless you are test-driving $500k vehicles, the "pleather" is non-porous.
 

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