Cleaning grotty interior?

wench02

Any tips? My car seats are pretty discusting - previous owner must have been a dirty minger.


Tried the usual interior spray on valet clean, worked a bit. Tried a steam cleaner, that helped a bit more. There are still however lots of grotty stains in my car that I want to get cleaned up.


The local car wash charge circa £30 for cleaning seats, and its obviously about £30 to hire one of those rug doctor thingys.


Any nice cheap suggestions for getting my car nice and clean again?

Rain_Shadow

Why did you buy a car with minging seats?

wench02

Because I needed a car....

worried_jim

Just get someone in to do it for you- they'll have all the right gear and chemicals.

I bought a Renault off a farmer which had most of the farm inside and £80 later it looked as good as new, I could never have done it on my own.

To give you an idea of cost-

http://mobilecarvaletingbrighton.co.uk/prices_service/

loskie

can you buy replacement seats from a scrappy?

motorguy

loskie wrote: »

can you buy replacement seats from a scrappy?

Yes because buying an entire interior from a scrappie and then getting it fitted (and risking upsetting the airbags) is cheaper than paying a valeter £30 do it for you :rolleyes:

motorguy

worried_jim wrote: »

Just get someone in to do it for you- they'll have all the right gear and chemicals.

I bought a Renault off a farmer which had most of the farm inside and £80 later it looked as good as new, I could never have done it on my own.

To give you an idea of cost-

http://mobilecarvaletingbrighton.co.uk/prices_service/

+1

Just get it done professionally for the sake of £30. They have all the chemicals, will do a better job and you wont waste a day of your life faffing about cleaning seats.

Two or three potions for cleaning from Halfrauds will cost you near that anyway.

Rain_Shadow

wench02 wrote: »

Because I needed a car....

And it was the only one for sale?


Anyway, I'm another vote for letting a valeter do it for you.:)

khcomp

I have a Vax carpet cleaner - does a brilliant job on seats with the appropriate attachments, but still about £170 dearer than having it done by a valeter...

bigjl

Our old Clio had beige seats.

It had a hard life being used for Care Work, so basically a mobile office and the kids where 9 and 11 when we bought it.

So a few stains here and there, then the wife bought new jeans with silly zips on the sides.

Ripped the drivers seats to pieces over a few weeks as the zip would catch when she got in and out.

I bought and fitted a mk3 facelift interior with half "faux" leather.

That's when I found out the later ones have thigh airbags instead of seatbelt pretensioners.

I did get it fitted in the end, Black instead of Beige. I mixed and matched the plastic panels for the old Beige ones on the Black seats and it matched the rest of the car perfectly, door panels and dash where a mix of Black and Beige, actually looked factory!

Never had any airbag problems till the under seat plug started to cause a few problems, soldered those up.

I think it was back on when we got rid.

To be fair we had got out money back on that car.

I paid £180 (I think) for the seats on eBay. They were from a three door so panels where no good.

Did the same for my V50, paid £100 for front and rear seats.

Changing the Volvo seats was as simple as you like, even though they were from a 2005 model and mine was 2008.

loskie

motorguy wrote: »

Yes because buying an entire interior from a scrappie and then getting it fitted (and risking upsetting the airbags) is cheaper than paying a valeter £30 do it for you :rolleyes:

depends on what is making them grotty smart rse My first co car was passed to me from a senior employer, within it 5l of unpasteurised raw milk had been spilled.
The only way to get rid of the smell was a new interior, no amount of cleaning products could fix it.