[OwnerCS]

When I was in high school, in the mid-seventies, I worked at a Fiat, SAAB, and Subaru dealership after school as the lot detail guy. I remember Fiat had a strange oily film that would appear in the inside windows after the cars would sit in the sun with the windows rolled up. The film was so thick that I could scrape it off the windows with a razor blade. A motor oil looking substance would run off the razor blade after a few swipes. I asked the owner about it and he said it was plastisizer being released from the vinyl seats. It was a mess to clean off and customers complained about it during the first year of ownership. It seems that once the seats stopped emitting the oily substance, they would dry out and begin to crack and take on a shredded appearance. Neither the SAAB nor the Subaru vehicles had this problem. We determined that automobiles that released an excessive amount of plastisizer were more prone to more interior wear, dash cracks, and early deterioration.