| Armor All is evil! Pure evil! Sorry, just had to get that out of my system. Seriously though, Armor All isn't particularly good for plastics and vinyls over the long term. There are some products which clean and polish vinyl and plastic without having the negative side effects of Armor All. I've never used "back-to-black" so I can't comment on whether it's a "good" or "bad" thing in my purist ontology. As for Armor All, it's loaded with silicone to give things a shiny gloss look, but it also tends to make things feel really greasy and slick, and all that silicone eventually forms a permanent coating on the surface. Over the long run, the "valleys" of the textured grain of whatever you are treating will fill in with silicone, creating a white "veiny" look. The only stuff that will really get it off are harsh solvents like DuPont Prep-Sol, which don't leave the surface looking so hot either. Plus vinyls and plastics dry out (despite the greasy feel) after repeated use, all sorts of chemical mumbo jumbo about plasticizers and so on.
I have a particular beef about this because the people who owned my '77 MGB for the ten years before I got it were regular Armor All users, and by the time I got the car the dash, interior door pulls, etc. were slicker than a greased pig and had a fine white filling in the grain. After several attempts to strip the Armor All off, it became clear that replacing the parts was the only viable solution. I was pretty suprised that, despite the super-slick greasy feel, the vinyl of the dash was actually quite flaky and brittle when I started to pull it off. People also tend to Armor All the rubber bumpers on late MGs, which it awful for the rubber. I had mine painted with flexible nylon-based semi-gloss paint, now I just wax the bumpers with the rest of the car. A bit extreme perhaps at $200 per bumper, but it's a more permanent fix. But I digress...
My point is, if you are looking for a better long term solution, then remove the excess wax, don't cover it up.
Just my two cents...
And for the "obscure, difficult solutions" department, I've heard that good old fashioned spit, navy spit-polish style, does a decent job. Just drink plenty of fluids to stay hydrated...
-Ricardo
"2 minutes by yourself and...you feel shame, you know...and then you get free" | 
