First, your Stilo's pull levers and remove the lower side by inserting your fingernail.

Thanks for the info man, it's been said before but never really had pictures to go along with the description.

The only thing I would like to add on this is to NOT try the same with the radio buttons as they have a fine rubber coating on top and boiled water will only melt some of it away. I ruined my buttons because of this and was forced to find another set.

This procedure can be done for the board computer buttons as well.

After you clean them, never use any of that cheap silicone spray on the dash, ever. Use only the finest lotion with little or no silicone like Nigrin Cockpit Lotion, and you will never have sticky buttons again. Been using it on both my stilos for over 1 year and still looking like new..

Afili, do you mean boiling water (100C) or just really hot? I am afraid I 'll end up with liquid buttons Does this method remove the gummy stuff on the buttons?

vladof said:

The only thing I would like to add on this is to NOT try the same with the radio buttons as they have a fine rubber coating on top and boiled water will only melt some of it away. I ruined my buttons because of this and was forced to find another set.

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All the buttons and switches (windows, CN+, "MODE" panel, climate control, electric seats, roof and steering wheel buttons etc.) on my Stilo are rubber covered. No way I would put any of them in boiling water.

I had a problem with the plastics at the bottom part of the dashboard. It seemed that all the plastics were melted and you could destroy your clothes if you accidentally touched that area.
The guys at the Greek Stilo club found a solution.Any oven cleaning spray (Mr.Muscle for example) will do the trick. My plastics became like new!
I tried the same trick with the buttons, in order to remove the gummy stuff from them, but with no luck...

Davren said:

All the buttons and switches (windows, CN+, "MODE" panel, climate control, electric seats, roof and steering wheel buttons etc.) on my Stilo are rubber covered. No way I would put any of them in boiling water.

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Well I guess the rubber on all my buttons except the radio ones were to worn for me to notice they were covered in anything. They were very yacky and felt like someone had pored honey on them.

The only method I could think of was to put them in boiling water and it did do the trick, although looking at my father's radio, you can clearly see that all the rubber parts coating is still there.

You can clearly see on AfiLi's pictures that he's missing the rubber as well, but nevertheless, at least he has clean buttons.

I would only recommend this if the buttons are in a very bad condition. If you don't apply very much force, you won't ruin the rubber.

They are surprisingly strong anyway, I boiled water in the microwave and placed them in the bubbly bath..

Don't you just love that silicone spray gummy sensation...

LE: maybe it's the actual rubber itself that gets damaged in time and turns sticky. Maybe that's what's turning white in the bole of hot water.

I don't think boiling water will melt them, just imagine how hot they get when it's 40 degrees in summer and they are directly exposed to the sun.. the temperature in the car can easily reach 60 degress in the sun..
And Davren is right, all knobs, switches etc are "rubberized". My window knobs on the driver's side are scratched a bit... but my girlfriend always uses her nails to push them.. they were all brand new as I got the car What you can do, as afiLi suggested is take off the rubber material.. but that's just until you scratch the plastic underneath and then there is nothing to take off

The plastic underneath is very hard to scratch, my other stilo's previous owner was a woman, the rubber on all the electric windows was destroyed, and an added bonus on the outside paint underneath the handle.

Nevertheless, I took the rubber off in September 2008 and they haven't scratched one bit since.

So I guess it's a sacrifice you can take, if you are careful with the buttons then go ahead, if not, just spend the 150£ or whatever it costs on a new set.