Rear Deck Refurb Part 2

Well, since removing all the rear pieces is a real PIA with window removal, heat shield removal and rivet drilling I decided to go easy and cheap for now. I removed one of the B pillar pieces and cleaned it up with a small soft toothbrush and some Woolite and water. Once it was rinsed off and dried it looked brand spanking new! Now the only problem with this approach is that I couldn't remove the other pieces to rinse them. In that case we used a damp, not wet, towel and gently rubbed/blotted as much of the Woolite out as possible. Then we used a hand-held wet/dry vac (Riyobi) and sucked up as much water as we could. Dried over night with the top off and again it looked brand new! (OK, mostly brand new. A couple of spots had to be redone twice) I am still going to have to replace the upper wrap-around piece because there is a small hole in it. However, unless you are sitting in the car and turn around, you never see it! (I may try to do a small patch job with a snippet of extra material from under the B pillar as a stop gap.)

Now for the small nicks in the material that raise the already raised thread we used a very small amount of Elmer's Glue and just laid them back down again. Works well.

 

Sorry, I forgot to add the mandatory before and after pic...
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The darker one on the bottom is before, the lighter one on top is after. Hmmmm, I can try for better pix maybe.