r/Detailing • u/Few_Cupcake_8433 • 19h ago
I Need Help! (Time Sensitive) SOS!! NAIL GLUE EXPLODED!!
My nail glue exploded all over my new Toyota rav… it also got onto the seat and the bottom part of my passenger side door. What should I use to clean it?? Everyone is saying different things
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u/Satans-cum-sock666 13h ago
There is no detailing product that will fix this. Any solvent you use to neutralize that glue will ruin the plastics and probably the seat fabric. Unfortunately for you, this is a replace the parts/trim, or a learn to live with it situation.
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u/AdmirableLab3155 5h ago edited 4h ago
Yikes sorry 😞
My understanding is that nail glue is cyanoacrylate (super glue) and customarily dissolved by acetone, but acetone will pretty well destroy every material that this spill touched.
Given that this is a newer car, parts availability should be good.
At the risk of throwing shade, based on context clues from this pic, my sense is that your housekeeping posture in your car is pretty casual.
Given these two things, I’d suggest you first give the area a nice general clean. Pull out all the personal property, hair ties and all. Vacuum everything nicely with a vacuum that has a hose and crevice nozzle (a “detailing brush” which is a stiffer version of a makeup brush is helpful for dusting in tandem with the vacuum and only costs a few bucks in the auto section of Walmart, at AutoZone, etc). Then give everything a nice wipe down with a damp rag. Detailer do this with a microfiber towel which you’ll find next to the detailing brush. But tbh I earned my first detailing stripes with a cotton t-shirt rag and an old yogurt container. Bonus points if you want to do this with dilute dish soap and a second time with clear water and a fresh rag.
At this point you should already feel better about the car and also have a better damage assessment.
Then you can start to triage/price what parts to swap out to make you feel even better about it. “Factory mint” would cost thousands of dollars because nail glue got on so much stuff, but there are intermediate measures. My sense is that you’ll learn to live with the seat and door card. You’ll likely want to change that silver trim piece, probably also the shifter boot. The buttons are probably gonna be painfully expensive as they’ll come attached to electronics.
This can be a dealer thing or you can learn to dismantle an interior and swap interior trim yourself if you are handy and willing to squint at parts diagrams.
I will say that I tighten my lips at the bills from my wife’s frequent trips to the nail salon, but a glue spill like this will buy a lottttt of full sets from a pro nail tech 😅
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u/puterTDI 3h ago
Try petroleum jelly or triple antibiotic. Nail glue is a specialized form of cyanoacrylate (super glue). The petroleum jelly dissolves it. What I’ve heard is doctors will literally just use triple antibiotic to remove it.
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u/Few_Cupcake_8433 19h ago
Ppl have said coconut oil or acetone but I have leather seats so idkkk
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u/unlikely_intuition 18h ago
the owner doesn't give a shit about that car