Door Armrest Discoloration

Hello, all. First post here.

I recently purchased a silver 2010 Prius II with light gray cloth interior. The door armrests are a darker gray.

When I first drove the car home, the door armrests seemed to be in great condition and uniform in color. Since then I've had some rain drops land on the passenger-side armrest a couple times and the cloth is now discolored (lighter spots than the overall dark gray).

Can anyone tell me if this is normal? Seems kinda weird because the armrests can't really avoid rain drops when the door's opened when it's raining.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

 

bisco. The first time it got rained on was about a month ago. I noticed the discoloration after it dried. It stayed the same for a month.

Today was rainy and it got some droplets again and was further discolored. I think it maybe hasn't dried yet from today, but it looked exponentially worse than the first time. I'll wait till it dries, but I can't imagine an improvement based on the first experience.

Thanks for your reply.

 

Thanks, guys. Since it's so new to me, I'm gonna wait and see how bad it gets before taking action.

It's not causing me any distress, but it does look a little crappy for a car that basically looked new inside when I bought it.

I wonder if the dealer dyed it somehow to make it look good. Probably not worth their trouble. Just a thought.

Thanks again.

 

Ha, that's exactly what I was thinking. It's too bad. The whole culture of car sales. Oh well. Us vs them. An unnecessary war. Such is life

 

For what it's worth, the center console is the same color as the door armrests.

 

I do have some Dawn on hand. Thanks for the tip.

 

I think the color scheme is actually correct. I found a picture online and this is what mine looks like...darker console and armrests/door panel.

I thought it might be possible that they were discolored when the dealer got it and maybe they cheaply dyed it back to the original color. I'll probably need to give it a cleaning and see what happens.

 

Thanks for the advice. It's good to know it'll most likely come clean.