04-and up GM, Ford and Toyota seats!

[linkj12]

over the last few years, I've hated cleaning these cheap material seats on the GM FORD and Toyota :surrender

It seems like anything that spill on them will leave a stain ring.
Cars like the Buick Rendezvous, Ford Focus, and the Chevy Malibu. Some appers to be grease or oily stains. (I called em shXt stains) Cleaning em is one thing but when the cleaning liquid dry's up, it leaves a bigger stain ring. Anyone come up with a good tip cleaning em? I've spray mist and a scrub bush, and I've even spray my cleaning solution on a towel wraped round the scrub bush. Sometimes I still get a dry ring. I have seen some good detail done to these cheap material but no one localy want's to give there tip. Thanks for any inside info :inspector:

 

[budman3]

Very good post! Infact I was just thinking about this the other day. These seats are nearly impossible to clean, for the reasons you have stated. Other brands I have found are certain models of Ford Focus and Dodge Ram as well. I did find that drying the seat right away marginally helped -- all I used was a towel but a fan or even hair drier would work better.I'm not sure if it was just luck or what though. Anyways, hopefully someone with some tips will chime in soon.

 

[Beemerboy]

Steam is the answer on those its what I had to use...getting them wet from cleaning solution leaves water stains...the steamer worked like a charm...I didn't have one at the time so I borough my neighbors and it was the trick....The steamer lifted the stain to the surface then with the MFT followed it seemed to take the stains out without creating another stain like water dose

I cleaned the seat best as possible then used the steamer to heat up the areas in question then wiped those up as I went along using some APC on a MFT and then using a dry one right after....I would also agree that these are some hard seats to get clean...I'm wondering if some type of dry cleaning method is what would work...the one like professional dry cleaner use

Edit...use deionized water in the steamer...That said I wonder if DW would be a better water to use on cleaning these seats in general?

 

[linkj12]

budman3-

Thanks for the resonds. I'll have to try that hair dryer method.

Beemerboy-

thanks for the responds. I'm going have to try the steamer method too.....About that Deionized water, I don't think I seen it in stores? Is it the same as Distilled water? It seems that the name "deionized water" would have all its minerals removed.I guess I'll have to call one of the local water bottle companies.


I went to a ford focus fourm and someone said they had good results with 303 Cleaner & Spot Remover to removed the dry rings.... I can't find any 303 Cleaner & Spot Remover here localy or through the wearhouses so I have a bottle on order to try it out. :dnaughty I'm also going to try the other 2 methods when I get one of those cars again....

 

[Larry A]

A foam cleaner like Tuff Stuff, Prestone , Blue Coral , Turtle Wax seems to work also.