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Dec 12, 2019 23:54:32 GMT
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Can anyone recommend a method/product to clean 50 year old Vinyl seats?  I have tried the spray foam cleaners and a soft old tooth brush/finger nail brush and they look great but once dry they still look dirty.
Any opinions/information appreciated?
Pete
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They look pretty good to me.
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Rich
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Cleaning 50 year old Vinyl SeatsRich
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Magic sponge/eraser and water with a tiny bit of vinyl safe cleaner in. Don’t scrub, just run the sponge over the surface and rinse regularly. They are amazing. Our valeter at work started using them for interiors to get ingrained dirt off and he swears by them.
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Thank you I will try some of those.
If anyone has any more views on cleaning these seats please comment?
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samta22
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^^^ when I used to do a spot of detailing on the side for pocket money at weekends they were the go to for steering wheels also, quite disgusting what they used to lift off. Trick is as mentioned, not too scrub as they can be quite abrasive, a wipe over combined with a spot of warm water and a soft bristle brush then a final wipe with a damp microfibre should do the trick. If you want a specialist cleaner, I'm a big fan of the Poorboys products - they do a good vinyl cleaner, then as a final step I give a quick wipe over with their natural look dressing which is superb stuff - I still ensure I have a bottle at all times now for my own cars. |
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Ok more options thanks Sam
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samta22
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Dec 13, 2019 10:46:24 GMT
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Knew I had some evidence somewhere - when I attacked the Celica seats Before  After  |
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'37 Austin 7 '56 Austin A35 '58 Austin A35 '65 Triumph Herald 12/50 '69 MGB GT '74 MGB GT V8'73 TA22 Toyota Celica restoration'95 Mercedes SL320 '04 MGTF 135 'Cool Blue' (Mrs' Baby) '05 Land Rover Discovery 3 V8 '67 Abarth 595 (Mrs' runabout) '18 Disco V |
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Rich
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Cleaning 50 year old Vinyl SeatsRich
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Dec 13, 2019 11:18:40 GMT
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^^^ when I used to do a spot of detailing on the side for pocket money at weekends they were the go to for steering wheels also, quite disgusting what they used to lift off. Trick is as mentioned, not too scrub as they can be quite abrasive, a wipe over combined with a spot of warm water and a soft bristle brush then a final wipe with a damp microfibre should do the trick. If you want a specialist cleaner, I'm a big fan of the Poorboys products - they do a good vinyl cleaner, then as a final step I give a quick wipe over with their natural look dressing which is superb stuff - I still ensure I have a bottle at all times now for my own cars. Magic sponges really are magic ain’t they. And yea, I do my steering wheel in my Cherokee regularly as I’m a mechanic and it gets filthy despite looking clean. You can Feel it’s actually clean when you’ve done it. It’s great. |
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vanpeebles
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Dec 13, 2019 11:35:30 GMT
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Baby wipes are great at getting the real heavy muck off.
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Dec 14, 2019 14:56:41 GMT
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This morning I managed to find time to clean the drivers seat.   
I still have the passenger side seat to do the magic sponges do work well and warm water helps, like all good things it's not instant but worth it.
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ChasR
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The one thing to bear in mind with a Magic Eraser (ME) is that they are abrasive, so be careful. I'd also check to see that the pattern on the seats is still present after being treated with the ME. Thus why some people say the results are 'magic'. Yes, it's removing dirt but it also could be removing material/paint, hence why the results look great. When I did the Merc, I used a steam cleaner, initially with a vinyl cleaner and then if that didn't shift the grime, I went to an all-purpose-cleaner to use with the steam cleaner. The only seat I needed to do that with really was the driver's seat, where tons and tons of grime was coming out. It did make it look much nicer inside. For the record, that had MB-Tex:   |
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bazzateer
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Dec 20, 2019 11:25:26 GMT
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Get a bar of Vanish soap, warm water an a nail brush. Non-abrasive and really gets everything clean. Dirt (see what I did there) cheap too!
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Last Edit: Dec 20, 2019 11:25:53 GMT by bazzateer
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jpr1977
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Dec 23, 2019 23:57:54 GMT
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Get a can of...  Still the most effective upholstery cleaner (especially vinyl) that doesn't affect the material that i have found... |
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Dec 27, 2019 12:51:20 GMT
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Sorry for thread hijack ( sort of) but does anyone know if decosol (sp?) is still available? Used to come in bottles and was great for this sort of thing, but I haven’t seen any for years and wonder if legislation has killed it off?
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Dec 27, 2019 13:18:18 GMT
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I have tried this Decosol and it did not shift anything It did not work. |
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Dec 27, 2019 13:34:18 GMT
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Looks like the proper stuff has died then
Original was like an orange jelly in a glass bottle
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ChasR
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For the record, I used a Karcher steam cleaner.
A friend of mine in the valeting/detailing business as a hobby uses the same along with a trimmer friend of mine using something similar.
The key with them is to not get the seat too wet, but it won't damage the seat which is the main thing. That is as long as it doesn't get too hot.
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