Has anybody cleaned their interior carpet and if so, can you provide some recommendations?

 

I used this stuff that my mom had from 3M, said "High Traffic, Carpet Cleaner" for stairs and stuff. Works very well! Dries up reasonably fast, and is not a Pain in the butt to vacuum up! Very pleased with the results, as so far any stain that was there, wasn't there for long. It may take 2,3 applications for them to completely disappear, but it does work. I had a sick stain on my back-seat from one of my friends not having a good ride back to his house, when he decided he couldn't use a bag or anything. Its completely gone now, took like 3 applications but it worked none the less! I would recommend any of the high-traffic carpet cleaners at wally world or target! None would harm it, only thing it could do would be to help.
~Phil
"Semper Fi"

 

Meguiar's APC+

 

I have APC+ but I havent tried it on my carpet as of yet. I bought it to clean the white letters on my wheels but I will try it later. For the mean time I've been using Meg's Quik Out. I like the smelll of it and I think it did a great job. I barely drive the truck so with that said my interior is not hurting. I think that if its bad off you may want to start with the APC+. It works wonders on my letters so I can only image what it can do on the inside.

 

For the cleaning motion, try going sideways because that seems to be the texture lines of the carpet.

 

But if Darren is right (it makes sense... clean with the carpet's bias and not accross it)... and if you want to KNOW the bias of your carpet ('cause it might change from lot to lot or year to year)...

Take a piece of paper and an old-fashion wood pencil or old-fashion bic pen... (you know... round but with eight sides):

Put the paper on the carpet, put the pencil flat on the paper and roll it back and forth. Do it North-to-South. Do it East-to-West.

No matter which way you roll the pencil... the paper will "walk" in the direction of the carpet's bias.

A guy from the Ontario New Home Warranty showed me that trick (because, he said, if you've got an unsightly carpet seam... it's likely because the installers switched the bias at that seam)