Removing stains from car seats

[MattM]

How do u do it without a valet? Can I buy something from halfords, or would a steam cleaner work?

Im really annoyed with my mate, he's stained the passenger seat with his sweaty arse after a long session in the gym :yuck:

 

[Dunc Uno Turbo]

How do u do it without a valet? Can I buy something from halfords, or would a steam cleaner work?

Im really annoyed with my mate, he's stained the passenger seat with his sweaty arse after a long session in the gym :yuck:

thats bloody rank! but **** funny lol

Dunc

 

[Goldie Punto]

Autoglym super interior clean.

 

[jug]

i always use warm soapy water and a sponge, but you must do the whole seat or there will be water marks. it works a treat, they'll be good as new. if you only do one seat you'll see how dirty the others are and have to do them too, so just do them all at once and then sit on binbags till its dry.

 

[MattM]

thanks

 

[thepottleflump]

I'd recommend Autoglym Interior Shampoo which works well - much better than I'd expected.

 

[Venters]

i always use warm soapy water and a sponge, but you must do the whole seat or there will be water marks. it works a treat, they'll be good as new. if you only do one seat you'll see how dirty the others are and have to do them too, so just do them all at once and then sit on binbags till its dry.

Try not to soak the seats too much either that way you can hoover the dirt and moisture out without destroying the hoover and it will dry alot quicker!

 

[jug]

very true, i do hoover them wet. if you have a bagless hoover (like a dyson) its ok to hoover them even when they're really wet, i do and it hasnt died yet, but you do get a nasty brown slime on the inside of the pipes. :yuck:

 

[CJ_CINQQY]

im a car valet and we use Concept Go Foam. Its in an aerosol can,looks like snow when it comes out,spay that on then use a nail brush.removes anything

 

[jug]

do you mean a valeter

the foams are great, and good fun to use too

 

[Venters]

but you do get a nasty brown slime on the inside of the pipes. :yuck:

I'm gonna add that to my sig!!

 

[jug]

hahaha.

nasty mind

 

[Dobby]

if i were you i'd your sweaty mate to pay for it to be proffesionally valeted

 

[gayboy]

talking of car seats i got a cinqy and need subframe for pass side any one help

 

[faster4_tec]

in the wtd section 'boy.

or at hte very least get yourself back in the cinq section.


VAX wet and dry. and some 1001 shampoo stuff, diluted like hell.

works beautifully, but I ONLY do it in summer as it has to be really sunny and dry for the seats to dry in anything like a day or so.

I still have a pineapple juice stain from like octover on my passenger seat

 

[jug]

I still have a pineapple juice stain from like octover on my passenger seat

that could never happen to me, i have simple rules: no eating, no drinking, no smoking, no pens pencils crayons or glitter (for GF's lil sis), no makeup or brushing hair (for GF), no dirty clothes or shoes, no touching windows, no picking your nose or biting your nails, no touching the stereo or sat nav, and most importantly of all- rulebreakers walk home. no i'm not joking.

 

[Andy_sx]

Bloody hell Jug

my cars got stains on the back seat :devil: :yum: its a mobile ash tray, and has hair and glitter everywhere, and i wont go into the condition of the windows!!! why do you think i want the leather for patch... wipe clean baby :devil: :slayer:

 

[alexGS]

I bought a Bissell Little Green Deluxe machine (as you can guess, it's American) - wet vacuum. It's one of the best things I've ever bought

When the $25 bottle of Little Green formula started to run out, I decided to try Simple Green instead, diluted twice as much. As a bonus it's <ahem> green

It works really well on seats etc. particularly if the spot/stain is sprayed with cleaner half an hour beforehand. Overall there is an amazing amount of dirt extracted - the water usually looks like an espresso coffee - brings up the fabric colour and eliminates odours!

The machine has become rather noisy (I switched back to the Little Green formula, but that made no difference except that it didn't work as well). Strangely though, as the seats start to dry, the remaining dirt rises to the surface - so a second pass the next day sorts that out.

With carpets, I get the best results if I remove the carpet from the car and spray with Simple Green, then clean with a waterblaster (pressure washer!) This may sound extreme but it flushes all the dirt away... with the carpet in the car, it's harder to extract the dirt - especially from the closed-pile budget carpet used in cheaper cars - longer-pile carpet seems easier to clean, paradoxically enough.

I agree that without using a wet vacuum, the foam aerosols are the way to go.

Cheers,
-Alex