Date:         Fri, 1 Apr 2005 08:19:00 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: cleaning coffee out of seats....ideas??
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Sure-fire:

If you know someone who has a carpet cleaner with a hand wand
attachment, use it. It put liquid in an pulls it right out, almost dry.

If you've never done this to your car seats you should try it. It's
very satisfying to look at the thick brown goo that comes out of all
your seats and carpets and know that you've saved yourself from that.

I don't intentionally set out to, but end up doing both vanagons about
one a year because of somthing spilled in them. I did intentionally do
the camper when I bought it just because clean matteresses were another
point of acceptance for a then-skeptical wife! But a lot of dirt came
out and I was glad I did it.

You cant rent those cleaners at some grocery stores.

Jim

On Apr 1, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Mike Collum wrote:

> I agree with Bob.  Lots of liquid and a wet-r-dry vacuum.
>
> Mike
>
>
> Bob Stevens wrote:
>> "any ideas on how to get this old coffee out of the seat foam without
>> taking
>>
>>> the seat apart...?"
>>
>>
>> Chris, if you'll keep doing what you are doing, eventually the amount
>> of
>> residue in the foam will begin to dissipate. I had a stainless
>> thermos, full
>> of coffee, "explode" while it was sitting on the psgr. seat, while
>> the van
>> was in PHX in June/July at Karl's while the tranny was being fixed.
>> He did a
>> hell of a job of cleaning and that's what he faced but at least it was
>> caught early .... more recent probably made that a little easier but
>> still a
>> patience-job. I finished the project after getting the van back home.
>> One
>> thing that will facilitate extracting/pulling the stain out of the
>> foam:
>> once you've been working on it awhile and it's pretty damp, put a
>> fairly
>> water-loaded sponge on it and let the water drench into the fabric
>> and foam.
>> Go to a car wash where they have strong vacuum's and while using that
>> to
>> pull the water + stain back out, have terry towels to catch/wipe the
>> stain
>> and water off the fabric surface. Maybe you have a shop vac that will
>> work
>> for this?
>>
>> Eventually this will get most of the stain out, just takes time and
>> patience.
>>
>> Good scrubbing ;)
>>
>> bob
>>
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