Car Carpet Cleaning

[Yeldarb]

Hey All, I'm after some advice/experince on anyone who has cleaned thier intertior carpets with more than the average vacuum cleaner.

The car is smelling a bit stuffy, no matter how much dry vacumming I've done, or cleaning products like leather care I've applied. The OCD in me wants to get a steam cleaner into the floor caprpets and even the material/non leath part of the seat, but I'm well aware of the cabling under the carpets etc.

Thanks.
Brad

[missjody9]

Mine needs doing too thanks Brad


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[LittleredMPS]

Mine needs doing too Brad.

When you know, let me know.

Wheres Joel lol

[Caffeine Fiend]

To the ZAS Cave!!

Lol


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[Logan]

Yep was wondering if it was just my car, could do with the same. I would describe the smell as wet dog at times.

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[rogwick]

Brad, this is my post in this thread

whats a good vacuum cleaner for the mazda 3 carpets

This is what I use Family Vax

Not only is it a powerful vacuum cleaner, it has a wet and dry function. Simply mix the Vax cleaning product into the water and you can wet vacuum you seats and carpets. You can actually see dirty water flow up the tubes from penetrating the carpet and sucking the dirt out. Great for household use too. My 2 cents on vacuum cleaners anyway

Obviously you all probably don't want to go buy a new vaccum cleaner but I like seeing brown dirty water flowing through the rubber hoses as I apply the nozzle to desired area cause that's all coming out of my seat and effectively cleaning it!

So far its the most effective way of cleaning my car and lifting any given smell. Works much better than just about any spray on product that simply masks the scent...for a while

[Yeldarb]

So its not just me then, cool. Occasionally you'll see a Coles/Woolies hire a type of carpet cleaning system out the front near the smokes. But just concerned they spit too much water. Might look and see if anyone hires the Vac you mentioned. I do remember the thread now, but we just bought a little Dyson 6 months ago. It rocks.

But yes, seeing brown water come back up the tube would be very satisfying

[rogwick]

Seeing brown water may be a put off for some, but you wanna see that stuff coming out as you know its doing the job! I can't find a video of the cleaning in progress, I can only say from experience, but this is a short video of our VAX (similar model)



And, I kid you not...my MPS and other vehicles I've cleaned look similar to this. This was AFTER using products you find at supercheap auto to clean my carpets (again similar clip to get an idea)

[Yeldarb]

I'd like to hire one...

KENNARDS HIRE - Vacuum Cleaner - Industrial

Might be a little too industrial.

[rogwick]

I reckon that might be ok. Joel at ZAS might have some better info as he's in the know, but I don't fancy those products claiming to get rid of dog odour, dirt etc cause I don't see how a surface spray can do that much. The VAX penetrates the seats and you can see the colour lighten as you do it removing the dirt.