Cleaning Cloth Seats?????

[MarkFX4]

hey everybody....
I know this subject has been beaten to death but I am still searching for a "cleaner" for my cloth seats in my 06 F150. These seats are a nightmare to clean. It started with rain spots that "stained" my seat. I tried cleaning with OXY water. Made it worse. Then straight water using a carpet shampooer. Still nothing. Now my seat looks like I laid greasy french fries all over it! I have tried a couple cleaners but nothing has worked so far! Suggestions PLEASE! Appreciate any help a bunch!

[DarrenWS6]

Meguiars Quik Out is good for random stains and dirty carpet.

http://www.meguiars.com/?cloth-carpe...lstery-Cleaner

In your case it may require a full shampooing and steaming.

[MarkFX4]

yea Darren...probably gonna have to go that route. I do have a shampooer, I just need to find out what is good for cleaning the seat. And yea...it is no longer a "spot" issue. The whole seat needs a good cleaning now! I appreciate it guy.

[drewk86]

Originally Posted by MarkFX4

hey everybody....
I know this subject has been beaten to death but I am still searching for a "cleaner" for my cloth seats in my 06 F150. These seats are a nightmare to clean. It started with rain spots that "stained" my seat. I tried cleaning with OXY water. Made it worse. Then straight water using a carpet shampooer. Still nothing. Now my seat looks like I laid greasy french fries all over it! I have tried a couple cleaners but nothing has worked so far! Suggestions PLEASE! Appreciate any help a bunch!

I have the same problem... I have never experienced a cloth that "Stains" soo easy...

[turtle313]

the local servpro franchise quoted me $98 to shampoo/steamclean the carpets and seats. I haven't had it done yet but I figure if they can get smoke, ash, and mold from fire damaged carpet in homes, I'll give them a shot at my truck. Especially since it's under $100 for everything and they'll come to my house.

[MarkFX4]

lemme know how it turns out Turtle! thanks
these seats are a freakin nightmare.

[USAFCountryBoy]

I have cloth seats as well and a pretty cheap stain remover that has worked well for me is tide stain remover, its a little bottle with like orange bristles on it. I got it from wal-mart for about 6 dollars and have been pretty happy with it.

[athill]

so has anyone ever gone the full shampoo route? if so, how were the results?

[scott1981]

Originally Posted by athill

so has anyone ever gone the full shampoo route? if so, how were the results?

I have to do mine once every 6 months to keep them looking good. My local car wash does them for $10 a seat and they come out looking perfect

[bigemike]

I use one of these

http://www.autodetailingsolutions.co...-extractor.htm

with the Meguiar's APC + it is the orange apc that meg's detailing line has, it has an antifoaming agent.

What I would reccomend if you don't have the money for the durrmaid extractor is this

http://www.bissell.com/Products/c/Po...g/product.aspx

bissell makes a few in the same lineup, and I would reccomend using water about 170 degrees with about 2 oz of the apc+ to every gallon of water. and some mixed 4:1 for spot treating.

Hot water and the apc+ is the key. I have the beige cloth and it looks good as new. It goes through the water spots like a hot knife through butter. I go offroading, quad riding, camping, boating. My intererior gets beat up regularly and outside of a small rip in the driver seat, it looks as good as new.

Let me know if any of that helps, but you can get a gallon of the treatment and a bissell for under $150 and you can take care of all of your interior and carpet needs.

[se7n]

Ugh my tan cloth seats are beginning to look terrible. I have one of those small steam cleaners for carpets, do you think this would work decently on the seats? I have a couple stains that will just not come out and after trying to use a couple different stain removers today, I need to flat out clean the entire seat to get the splotches out.

[bigemike]

order you a sample bottle of the apc+ from autodetailsolutions and then use water about 170deg with that small handheld and you will have great results, just might take a little longer to dry.

[midnight08]

tuff stuff has always worked for me.... its available at walmart and just about any other store.

[hairyauman]

those products are decent for quick on the spot jobs. when i need a thorough carpet/mat clean in my '06 FX2 I use a rug doctor. i bought a rug doctor about a year ago instead of renting one for a few years prior. It does a good job.

[x_sgs_x]

What kinda seat stains with water WTF Ford, i use turtle wax foam cleaner it does the job, but you will still need a good steam clean once a year.