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30th March 2013, 14:11
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upholstery cleaner?
I have used our Vax carpet cleaner on the seats in my car with pure hot water just to see was it was like as i haven't used one before.
All i can say is that my inertia is pretty dam clean 9 times out of 10. I went over my drivers seat with the carpet clean and i felt sick the amount of pure dirt and 12 years worth of berried farts that had layed between the fabric of the seat. You can see the nice clean water in 1 end of the hose and pure brown shit coming out the other.
It done an amazing job, so good in fact that i want to do it again with an upholstery cleaner and do the seats, carpet and roof lining. Can any one recommend some good upholstery cleaner, nothing that will destroy my wallet but good value for money.
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30th March 2013, 14:25
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Glasgow
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Why not do the same with your carpet ?
Get the seats out and then put the carpet out.
Prob best to use an APC
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30th March 2013, 14:32
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i will be doing the same with the carpet, i only used hot water on the seats just to see how to use the actual vax carpet cleaner but was surprised how much muck it got out with just hot water, wanner add a cleaner and go mad! 
Wheres the sort of place you get apc from mate?
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30th March 2013, 14:41
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Apc though a wet vax doesn't work very well. You need a dedicated cleaner, 1001 is pretty good if you can find it.
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30th March 2013, 14:53
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I was thinking about spraying APC the try to agitate the dirt out with some brushes.
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30th March 2013, 15:11
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I want a wet vac so I can do this to my seats lol
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30th March 2013, 17:39
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Quote:
Originally Posted by josh11490
I want a wet vac so I can do this to my seats lol
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It's great! My dads friend gave it to us as his mum was chucking it out, everything all in the vacuum packs pretty much brand new for free.
The amount of dirt it pulled out of one seat with just pure hot water was unbelievable, can't wait to see the result with decent cleaner
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30th March 2013, 17:46
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Think I might keep an eye out for a cheap one...
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30th March 2013, 17:54
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Quote:
Originally Posted by josh11490
Think I might keep an eye out for a cheap one...
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Would recommend one to any one. This is the one we got http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vax-Multivax.../dp/B0041MI3W0
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31st March 2013, 20:15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by stevie_m
I was thinking about spraying APC the try to agitate the dirt out with some brushes.
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Yeah that works, I use this to get rid of stains. Tbh I rarely crack out the wet vax unless the smell is unbearable, and you have major cleanliness issues.
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2nd April 2013, 20:11
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Location: Reading
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I use autoglym interior shampoo with my vac comes up like new
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2nd April 2013, 23:27
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Wet vacs are shit hot, i used one of those RugDoctors on mine and cant praise it enough.
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3rd April 2013, 21:30
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when ive finished fitting my door tweeters i'm gonna blitz the car with it but fully, ill try and get some pictures of the quality isnt that bad
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3rd April 2013, 22:12
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Why not use the carpet cleaner vax sell? Its what i use and it does an amazing job! I do my carpet and whole interior once a month!
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4th April 2013, 04:22
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I use the vax unit aswell, great piece of kit
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