I've been down this road a time or two.
I usually start with a bucket of HOT water and vinegar and a scrubber. Scrub
everything good, any particularly bad spots I hose down with Goo-Gone and leave
it for a bit. Keep the Goo-Gone wet for a good 5 minutes, then scrub it back
off.
Hit anything plastic vinal(sp) with a vinal cleaner but not Armor All. I've
used Son of a Gun which seems to work okay.
My folks gave me a couple three cars over the years and as they were smokers
and I'm not there was plenty of scrubbing involved at the first turn over.
One time my wife left some "Laffy Taffy" on the cloth seat in her car, of
course it got warm and you can just imagine. I figured there was just no way
but soaked it in Goo-Gone anyhow and started picking at it. Amazingly before
long I got the whole dammed thing off the seat and left no sign it'd ever been
there. That sold me on Goo-Gone for sure.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:14:43 -0700
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Went to Cal yeaterday to get the Beetle (daughter child is off to the
U.K.). Drove the 300D over and SHMBO and the boy-child, with his bright,
shiny new permit, followed me back. They got 48mpg, I got 22mpg.
The Bug is retchingly gross dirty. I can't describe it. She is going to
get the riot act read to her when she returns...and, unless I cool off
a bit by then, she may not even get the car back.
Right now I'm fighting the urge to just take this rolling dump to
someone and let them detail it. However, I'm sure I should just do it
myself.
So then...what is the best:
carpet cleaner
upolstery cleaner
any other detailing helps/tricks/stuff.
Thanks
Bob Rentfro
'77 300D 148K
'01 VW Beetle TDI 61K (grodiest car in the whole world...at this time)
Litchfield Park, AZ
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R A Bennell wrote:
> Have you used it for very long? I had a spot on the back seat of my Toyota
> 4Runner. I asked a fellow who came to the house to clean carpet about it and
> he removed it with some sort of spot cleaner that he uses for carpet. He
> just sprayed it on and soaked it up with a towel. I was impressed. However,
> a year or two later, the spot is now not the same color as the rest of the
> seat. It seems to have removed some of the blue dye in the seat as the area
> is now whiter than that surrounding it.
Perhaps if he'd cleaned the seat and NOT just the spot, the seat would
now all be the same color. Perhaps what you perceive as the "original"
color is the effects of light and dirt on the original color, while the
spot is the result of just light's influence.
Marshall
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