Cleaning Dirty Car Upholstery

RE: Cleaning Dirty Car Upholstery Post By Karen (Guest Post) (09/17/2007) I would try to clean it yourself before having it professionally detailed. I just bought a used car and the person I bought it from paid $150 to have it detailed. The seats and headliner are still stained and the car smelled. I got rid of the smell easily using Fabreeze and plan on trying Folex for the carpet and headliner. Clearly it was $150 wasted.... RE: Cleaning Dirty Car Upholstery Post By Judy (Guest Post) (08/25/2006) I use my carpet steam cleaner with the hand attachment. After my two very active little boys have been in the car everyday I have just about everything left on the fabric seats. I clean the car twice a year in the spring and fall unless there has been a major mess. The steam cleaner has worked everytime. RE: Cleaning Dirty Car Upholstery Post By annie (Guest Post) (06/04/2006) I use too get cloth seating n upholstry in cab of my big truck really dirty with grease .. to get it all out.. I use one part water with two parts of amnonia,,, n a sponge not a cloth.. Put on dabbing,, do not rub into,,,, if done that already keep washing with dabbs. It may take some time,, willl he be restored like new. It will come out.. Amonia is super great for removing residue. keep the sponge damp,,, n keep cleaning sponge while doing this.. annie RE: Cleaning Dirty Car Upholstery Post by jennma521 (19) | (05/11/2006) Contact i use a carpet cleaner from menards, it works well on car carpets and seats, i detail cars, and that is the best cleaner to use other than a actual cleaner machine. it is called, heavy duty carpet stain remover, by nest dimensions* it is a blueish color can and a purpleish lid, it is hard to find sometimes, they keep it with the vacuums. That is where our menards keeps it anyways... RE: Cleaning Dirty Car Upholstery Post By Carol in PA (Guest Post) (05/11/2006) Rather than having my son's used car detailed professionally when he got it, I bought a small Bissell carpet cleaner from Overstock.com. Actually it may be an upholstery cleaner because I know it has a hand-held device thats easy to use inside the car on upholstery and carpet. For the same price, I can do this myself whenever I want., and I have the machine to use inside the house if I want. RE: Cleaning Dirty Car Upholstery Post by camo_angels (695) | (05/09/2006) Profile | Contact I would bite the bullet and get it professionally detailed, maybe check craigslist.com in your local area and offer a trade. Sometimes it is just worth it; mine came back looking BRAND New, and it was 5 years old and 120,000 miles!