In a message dated 6/8/03 10:18:14 AM, Cotsford@AOL.COM writes: << Short of taking the upholstery out and using the "purple" cleaners, hose etc. to try and deal with this, what is the groups' collective wisdom ? >> Steve, my man, if you want to get it truly clean, you have little choice than to do what you don't want to do. A thorough rinse might be more important than the detergent used. It takes copious amounts of water to thoroughly rinse the fabric. One of my wife's toys is a Speed Queen commercial front loader which the vendor calls a washer-extractor. It has one wash cycle and three rinse cycles. The correctness of that control scheme was recently proven to me when I used it to wash the upholstery from some really grubby jumpseats complete with a grande latte stain as big as a pizza. They came out as clean as new. The only problem is, by comparison, the rest of the interior now looks like shit. George |
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