Car interior cleaning machine needed, something hardcore !!
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Hi All,
My 4x4 has oil and stuff on the rear seats and rear carpets. No amount of cleaning products and elbow grease seems to help (due to previous owner and I noticed after it was too late). I put a bike on my back seat the other day and the next morning when I took it out half the frame was coated in this film of oil.
Short of replacing the interior, which I don’t want to do because it’s a 98 model, so not worth it, can anyone please recommend some kind of steam or cleaning machine I could use? I don’t really care if it is so strong the seats are slightly damaged, I would rather get rid of the oil. The smell in the car in the heat is horrible and any dirt is trapped in no time.
I have seen Edd China (Chynna) or however you spell his name go on and on Wheeler Dealers about this wonderful industrial cleaning machine or some other you can rent for £30 a day, so was hoping to maybe give something like that a go.
Any help/advice much appreciated.
My 4x4 has oil and stuff on the rear seats and rear carpets. No amount of cleaning products and elbow grease seems to help (due to previous owner and I noticed after it was too late). I put a bike on my back seat the other day and the next morning when I took it out half the frame was coated in this film of oil.
Short of replacing the interior, which I don’t want to do because it’s a 98 model, so not worth it, can anyone please recommend some kind of steam or cleaning machine I could use? I don’t really care if it is so strong the seats are slightly damaged, I would rather get rid of the oil. The smell in the car in the heat is horrible and any dirt is trapped in no time.
I have seen Edd China (Chynna) or however you spell his name go on and on Wheeler Dealers about this wonderful industrial cleaning machine or some other you can rent for £30 a day, so was hoping to maybe give something like that a go.
Any help/advice much appreciated.
I've heard very good things about this - http://www.rugdoctor.co.uk/
Never used it though. Can be hired from B&Q (near me at least)
Never used it though. Can be hired from B&Q (near me at least)
Get a professional to do it, not a crappy car wash but a proper valeter with all the kit. Get the entire car done, it will probably cost you £50 more than buying/renting stuff and just doing the interior yourself, but you wont have to do anything and will have a showroom clean car by the end of it.
s p a c e m a n said:
Get a professional to do it, not a crappy car wash but a proper valeter with all the kit. Get the entire car done, it will probably cost you £50 more than buying/renting stuff and just doing the interior yourself, but you wont have to do anything and will have a showroom clean car by the end of it.
Thanks, have tried that too, maybe just too much oil ingrained. after hte clean it seems a lot better but maybe there is so much soaked in it keeps coming back to the surface. Am going to keep my eye on some replacement seats, not really too bothered about the carpet, can live with that
p4cks said:
s p a c e m a n said:
That would probably mean that the foam underneath the fabric is saturated with oil, you're not going to get that clean 
This. I'd just keep an eye out online for a replacement rear seat. Probably the best solution if you can't live with it as is.
brake cleaning fluid is good for getting oil stains from fabric 
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Edited by skyrover on Friday 12th July 11:10
Daft suggestion, but what about taking the seat covers off, cover the foam in thin plastic sheet, wash the covers & put them back on over the plastic covered foam?
You'll be trapping the oil in the foam & because of the plastic sheet it cant leach through onto the newly cleaned seat covers.
You'll be trapping the oil in the foam & because of the plastic sheet it cant leach through onto the newly cleaned seat covers.
well no dodgy stuff on the seats lol, thanks for that :-).
Thanks for the tips, will play it by ear. i can live with it, sort of, but the dirt is getting trapped and cant put anything on the rear seats or carpet without getting coated in some kind of oil residue. the smell in the heat however is pretty noxious but opening the windows seems to help.
ideally i would prefer some intense cleaning produc but if the saturation is deep then i guess the only solution is to replace the seats and carpeting, so will look around some breakers sites and see what i can get
Thanks for the tips, will play it by ear. i can live with it, sort of, but the dirt is getting trapped and cant put anything on the rear seats or carpet without getting coated in some kind of oil residue. the smell in the heat however is pretty noxious but opening the windows seems to help.
ideally i would prefer some intense cleaning produc but if the saturation is deep then i guess the only solution is to replace the seats and carpeting, so will look around some breakers sites and see what i can get
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