Morning all,

The seats in my vRS are filthy (due to a combination of mud and road grime from various bikes, alloys etc) and long overdue a clean.

Am I best to get them professionally done, and is steam cleaning the best option?

If so, is there anywhere good in the bucks/middlesex/west London area?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Obviously a professional clean is best, but I always found a damp cloth and some carpet cleaner (or some oxyaction in water) brought them up pretty well tbh.

Hire a rug doctor from somewhere like morrisons if you have on local, that's your best bet. Failing that, for a quick fix try Autoglym interior shampoo and a damp cloth, it's surprising how well it works.

Marc

Be careful if the front seats are heated. I have used Meguiar's Heavy Duty Carpet & Interior cleaner, £5.99 from my local DIY store. A bit "faffy" - you have to use clean terry towelling, but very effective for me.

If you want a REALLY good clean of the seats then you're best to take the seats out, covers off, and put them in the washing machine! I've seen someone who did that on here. Was going to do it myself, but not had the time. Search is your friend on this one

After that I would suggest that the rug doctor/wet vac is the best thing to use.

I'm sure some of the cleaning products are good, but they'll never do as good a job as the above.

Once they're clean I suggest you put a couple of tins of scotch guard on them, and then hopefully they'll stay cleaner, and can just be wiped then!

Hope that helps.

I'm going to hire a rug doctor so will let u know how it goes. Ive got so many marks on my seats.

Cheers for replies guys, how hard is a rug doctor to use?

I bought one of these from Snap-on cheap because he had it on the van so long. Its a karcher but red & badge Snap-on

Carpet Cleaner

I also bought some cherry smelling cleaner and its fantastic

Cleaning Solution

Ill post some pictures later of what this actually takes out the carpets & seats that you never see

If anyones local your welcome to come and use it

Obviously a professional clean is best, but I always found a damp cloth and some carpet cleaner (or some oxyaction in water) brought them up pretty well tbh.

and a fine job he did,

fancy doing them for me ?

I'd also recommend that if you are doing them at this time of year, to buy some cheap seat covers to put on once clean - at least for the front anyway as they get filthy really quick in the winter. I have some plain nylon ones off Ebay that are on for the winter, think they were a tenner each - mine have skoda logos on the headrest section but you can get them with VRS too I think.... they do the job even if they are a bit thin/cheap.

Marc

TBH, un less you have a garage as part of your house.... I just wouldn't do them now.. they'll take forever to dry even with a wet / dry vac. you'll get so much condensation it'll be unsafe and will most likely give you frost on the inside of your windows.

Seriously, I'd wait until May or something..

TBH, un less you have a garage as part of your house.... I just wouldn't do them now.. they'll take forever to dry even with a wet / dry vac. you'll get so much condensation it'll be unsafe and will most likely give you frost on the inside of your windows.

Seriously, I'd wait until May or something..

good advice

I'd be thinking the same thing, leave the seat cleaning until the temps warm up and the weather improves

I use autoglym interior shampoo with meguiars detailing pads and then a microfibre cloth to dry it off. Works very well and no water marks are left.

Well I was mainly just being impatient, I'm not cleaning them properly just getting the worst of the surface dirt off so its a little more pleasant for people in the back. I ended up using a damp terry towel, and some cleaner my mate got from a car show, then scrubbing away. It worked really well, got the worst of the dirt off, and the seats were only mildly moist afterwards, so very impressed! I'll probably hire a carpet cleaner in the spring, or get them steam cleaned when I get the car valeted in the new year.

Cheers for all the advice though guys, I really appreciate it. Have to get some pics up when its finally done properly lol

theres turtlewax interior cleaner you can get from halfrauds, usually works well on my seats have autoglym interior shampo aswell think its rubbish tbh

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_190214_langId_-1_categoryId_165651

I have sonax dashboard cleaner. Special product for cleaning and maintaining furniture,car interior fittings, car seats, motorbike leathers, and other components made from smooth leather. Removes dirt, oil and grease, and simultaneously keeps the leather extremely supple without becoming slippery.

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Edited 28 March, 201115 yr by diane21

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Morning all,

The seats in my vRS are filthy (due to a combination of mud and road grime from various bikes, alloys etc) and long overdue a clean.

Am I best to get them professionally done, and is steam cleaning the best option?

If so, is there anywhere good in the bucks/middlesex/west London area?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Best I've seen is to remove the covers and use the washing machine. There's a thread on here about doing just that. It requires a little bit of nouse and possibly a proper tool or two.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/154853-fabia-vrs-seat-cover-removal/

HTH

J.

I used Autoglym Hi-Foam Interior Shampoo from Halfords. It was about £6.

Spray it on, wait 30 seconds, Rub it with a sponge. Done

It did this twice and the seats came up really well, not far off as new from a cleanliness point of view.

Sat on a towel for one trip into work and then they were dry by home time.

I'll definitely buy it again

I have mine done the guy who valets my car, can't get it near his standard but once he's cleaned it proper if I see a small stain autoglym interior shampoo seems to work well!

Keep them covered with a seat cover would be an idea.

Having a small steam cleaner maybe an option to get rid of the grime??

I've posted this stuff a few times now.

http://www.chemspecworld.com/catalog_browse.asp?ictNbr=190

Spray it on, aggitate with a brush and remove with a wet vac (which you can pick up for less than £100). It is amazing stuff. I use it on customer cars and they are amazed with the results, and althought they dont know it, it's makes such an easy job of it.

This stuff smells really nice (I use the clean cotton), is also anti bacterial and lasts a long time as you have to dilute it loads... http://www.restormate.co.uk/epages/15094.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/15094/Categories/Craftex/CarUphol/Chemicals/Deodor

With regards to drying, I have a powerful fan that I put in the car which dries it out within an hour (its a bit pricey though) http://www.drieaz.com/_DEC/DEC_Product_Base.aspx?decID=1022 but if you close all the windows and run air-con on re-circ, then nip out after 10 mins and open all the doors then repeat the process a couple of times you can get it dry pretty quick too on a nice day.

My seats need doing again after the winter, might do them this weekend an post up some pics of the process.

Edited 1 April, 201115 yr by saint1d

Autoglym spray foam interior shampoo and a damp/sponge cloth works wonders.

Edited 2 April, 201115 yr by deathhead

Hi all,

For those still considering giving their seats a clean. I have found that a bucket of warm water, a half cup of non-bio washing powder and a clean cloth has made mine look like new & deodourised the car too. Just finish off with a hoover to get rid of excess water.

I had a RugDoctor on hire over the weekend and gave my vRS seats, carpets and mats the once-over. They've all come up quite well and hasn't done them any harm. They were dry by the following evening so approx 24 hours with no special effort e.g. dehumidifier.

Having said that it may not be worth the bother of getting the RugDoctor just for your car seats. I used it to clean two cars and two sets of furniture.

Edited 20 July, 201114 yr by liammoo