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!

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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.