Good product for cleaning car seats?

MASTER...of the bra

As title says, what's good for giving car seats a spring clean. I don't mind a little elbow grease but the less the better.:o

I see Febreze advertised alot but it's just for bad odours.

andyseadog

best thing, if your on a budget and have no tools or supplies i found previously is to borrow stuff from around the house that you already have so it costs you zero.

get an empty spray bottle (an empty mister muscle, or windowlene or any bottle that has the 'trigger misting thing' on it) and give it a good rinse.

then get some detergent that you use in the washing machine (daz, surf, bold, whatever is lying around) and add it in a fairly concentrated mixture with some warm water into the empty spray bottle.

then get a basin and a clean cloth and fill this with clean water (it doesnt have to be warm).

first dampen the cloth in the clean water, and use it to dampen the area of the seat your going to clean, then spray on the detergent that you have mixed up in the spray bottle, leave it to sit for a short time, then give it a good scrub with a nail brush, when you reckon you've scrubbed enough, take the clean cloth, wet it again, and use it to blot off the excess from your scrubbing. it leaves the seats a little damp, but it works.

common sense applies to the above (change the clean water when its dirty, test on a small concealed area first for colour runs etc.)

i've done this countless times, usually works a treat, after a while though i realised it was really a lot of work so i splashed out on a wet vac, from lidl works a treat

edit : i think there was another thread on this subject only yesterday, but its nearly 5am so im wayyyyyy too tired to go look for it

vectra

As above but I have used APC ( All purpose Cleaner) in place of detergent.

Any APC will do
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Tesco
Lidl

Gary ITR

vectra wrote: »

As above but I have used APC ( All purpose Cleaner) in place of detergent.

Any APC will do
Flash
Tesco
Lidl

Watch out though, some APC's contain bleach so check it on an old towel or something first

dr.fuzzenstein

Very hard to clean fabric with cloth and brush, more punishment than it's worth.
Have a Vax carpet cleaner for the house (got it quite cheap in LIDL) and it has an attachment for the car.
It's the same as a valet, really gets the dirt out of the seats, still hard work but nowhere near as bad as cleaning your seats with a rag and bucket of water.
And it really gets the carpets in the footwells clean.
Also, consider seat covers to stop them getting dirty in the first place.

Atlantic Dawn

Autoglym have an upholstery cleaner spray thats great, brought mine up like new.

giant_midget

Now..I'll probably get shot down for saying this :pac: ...I bought a car some years ago with very dirty seats it, was a Volvo s40.

I used paint thinners...yes...paint thinners, and hot water and scrubbed the seats with a cloth, Guess what..Fabric in the seats looked like it was factory new after 10 mins work and it stayed like that for as long as i owned the car.

Now it stank of thinners obviously, but the smell was gone pretty quick with a few blasts around with all the windows open..Really worth a go!

obviously not on leather seats...:pac:

vectra

Onkle wrote: »

Watch out though, some APC's contain bleach so check it on an old towel or something first

True
I should have mentioned that and also should have mentioned to dilute it as well..Not to use it pure

si_guru

I use a steam gun to loosen the marks then VAX it with a wet vacuum. Of course it might be worth paying a to just have the seats valeted?