best upholstery cleaner to use?

[slammage]

as above got a old dare i say bordering retro early corsa b and the interior does need a good scrub, whats best to use? anything in particular?

more used to cleaning vinyl on old fords not 90's cloth lol

[tonka62]

I find the best thing for upholstery is Stardrops diluted and rubbed in using an old woolly jumper or similar, works well on door panels too.

[Mystery Machine]

Baby wet-wipes. Seriously.

I have to have a pack in every car for cleaning oily hands, in fact cleaning pretty much everything.

[slammage]

Cheers guys will bear the stardrops in mind , and Bruce that has been said to me before, i will get some of these tomorrow and try this is it just a case of wipe , scrub and pure muscle? got to get faint mud stains out of the seats? and just general dirt

cheers for that

Gav

[MiataMark]

I was thinking of buying this to clean seats etc, got some really badly stained seats. Should be usefull for carpets as well.

www.lakeland.co.uk/23249/Bissell-Little-Green

Anybody had experience of using a steam cleaner?

Mark

[grumblespeed]

Have to admit, I was standing looking at all the whizz bang oxy foamy acti magic type cleaners in Sainsburys the other day and eventually went for the half the price own brand stuff.
Actually, excellent!

[PandaSelecta]

When you get some baby wipes, i recommend the tesco ones with resealable plastic lids, otherwise they dry out

[slammage]

asdas nearest to me so will be there re sealable cheapest ones they've got, will do a before and after

[taurus]

Wilko's own brand car upholstery cleaner (99p iirc) is brilliant. I had an old Corsa B I rebuilt last year and the interior was rank. It came up spotless and smelt lovely.

[composimmonite]

It works !
Today I tried some of Tesco's cheapest baby wipes on my stained light grey cloth seats and now dry they have come up sparkling
Great tip.

Paul h

[Jizmondo Scrotmondo]

The best stuff I've ever used is 1001 upholstery & carpet cleaner. There's two sorts, one for machines (foamy) and one for manual use.
I used the manual cleaner in a spray bottle, spray onto the seat/carpet, scrub with soft brush and then wet vacuum it off. If there's no wet vac, dry with old towel and make sure the weather is warm too. Comes up like new

[akku]

steam cleaner is what the "detailing" boys use, less chance of a reaction between the cleaning agent and the fabric. s'posed to be better for the environment, s'posed to be easier, less clean up, deeper cleaning action, all that.

I've used the 1001 stuff for years always been happy with the results.

[dodgerover]

We bought 25 litres of upholstory cleaner from a guy with a stand at the car auctions one night years ago its marvellous - you dilute it 50:1! so still got loads left, unfortunately the label has long since disapeared so have no idea what its called....

Don't know about a steam cleaner but I've seen cheap 'trade' interior valets done with a pressure washer, traffic film remover and a VAX to suck it all back out with, they come out really well - just take a while to dry out afterwards.

[roryleach]

At what cost you have got that upholstery cleaner from that guy and please let me know so that I can also get it for my home carpet cleaning.

[winchman]

Autosmart Brisk is the best I have used, G101 is great for plastics or stubborn stains