Date:         Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:45:28 -0500
Reply-To:     wilden1@JUNO.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: vanagon upholstry / Recovering Dirty Upholtery
Comments: To: simon@FARRSIDE.NET
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I don't mean re-covering, I mean recovering.
If you happen to get years of built up body oils and great masses of
coffee and soda pop on your seats, this is what you do.
Take the seats out of the van. spray them down with oven cleaner, scrub
them with a stiff brush, add more oven cleaner, scrub them some more.
Hose them down with a good high pressure garden hose nozzle. Turn the
seats several times while drying them in the sun.
This do or die cleaning process will resurrect the most foul smelling and
looking seats that you've ever seen in a wrecking yard. (I did it)
This procedure removes the gray haze and brings back the colors very
good.
You can add scotch guard if you like after they dry.
It doesn't repair rips and holes, just cleans the dickens out of what you
have left to work with.

Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:24:40 -0600 Simon Reinhardt <simon@FARRSIDE.NET>
writes:
> Ah yes, grasshopper, but notice earlier on I recommended using
> detergent
> sparingly.
> If you feel there's too much detergent residue, run the Bissell or
> a
> steamvac of some sort over the area a few times, with nothing but
> water
> in the system.
>
> On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 01:42  PM, Ben T wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 6/21/02 12:32:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > simon@FARRSIDE.NET writes:
> >
> > << I'd also like to point out that my 19-month-old son recommends
> that
> > you
> >  put Scotchguard back onto your upholstery when you're done
> cleaning-
> >  BenT, this has to do with realpoo. >>
> >
> > Simon,
> >
> > The problem with Scotchguarding a cleaned item is you are locking
> in any
> > leftover detergent into your fabric, eh?
> >
> > BenT Hugh Moore
> >
>

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