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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Chennai
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Jun 2019 Location: Kochi - PKD
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Jun 2019 Location: New Delhi
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| ![]() Did seem to remove the yellow paint but the black paint around it started looking duller. Put my DIY on hold for now. Shall try to get it fixed on my routine detailing visit. |
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() Thinner is a strict No. It will peel of your clear coat and even base coat if you are aggressive. Last edited by KkVaidya : 15th February 2021 at 12:11. |
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Newbie Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Nagpur
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| ![]() Try using IPA or Iso-Propyl alcohol. You can get this at any pharmacy. Do not use thinner, it will eat the plastic. |
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() Hello all, How does one try to keep their stock fabric seats clean? So I have a 2020 Škoda Rapid Ambition, which comes with beige coloured fabric seats. I don’t know when or how it happened but the driver seat picked up a few stains. After looking around enough on Amazon I ordered “Turtle Wax Quick & Easy Interior 1 Multi Purpose Cleaner and Stain Removal” ![]() And this is the result after I tried to clean the seat base according to the video provided in product page of Turtle Wax website. ![]() As one can notice, the circle shaped stains were there before, now there’s discolouration. I admit it’s not totally dry yet. I tried my best to dry it with a micro fibre cloth as I do not have a car vacuum cleaner. What am I doing wrong? Please advice. Apologies in advance, if this is not the right place to post this question. Thank you, Neo |
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: May 2020 Location: Bengaluru
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| ![]() Are you sure you applied enough for the stain to be removed?If yes then you should wait for it to dry completely and that should lighten the stain and give you a correct picture how much effective the cleaner was.Please do keep us posted as i am also planning to try it. |
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Newbie Join Date: Jan 2021 Location: Banglore
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: BengaLuru
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Fabric seats catch dust and store them. When you use a liquid cleaner on a small patch of the fabric, the liquid will just displace this dust and sometimes the borders of the patch will gather more dirt like a ripple effect. If not, then if you have a strong stain like ink, then when you apply a liquid soap over a small area, the ink will just dilute across the area. Hence, always spray soap and brush across an entire panel, here it is the seat base. Without a vacuum cleaner which can suck all the water out, some amount of the dirt will still remain on the area and discolouration or border marking is pretty expected. But that depends upon how much dirt was present along with the stain. The Celerio is the only car in my house with fabric seats and I usually wet vacuum the whole seat once or twice a year. The water extracted out of the seats show how much dust was present in it even though the seats looked clean. | |
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1. Cleaned the whole seat (the base & the back rest) with a micro fibre cloth. 2. Then I applied the Turtle Wax on the whole part of seat base. Waited for 10 seconds. 3. Rubbed on the seat gently with the brush provided for over half a minute until the foam disappeared. 4. Tried my best to dry it with a fresh micro fibre cloth. Result: Even after it was dry, the seat base remained the same as the picture in my original post. With the existing stains, it added some more in a pattern that I sprayed the foam with discolouration. It worked well on the beige part of the door trim in removing a stain. This wasn’t on fabric. Mistakes I believe I made: 1. Didn’t vacuum I believe cleaning the seat thoroughly with a micro fibre cloth will only remove so much existing dust. 2. I didn’t shake the bottle before applying the foam, thus the foam didn’t spread in the y-axis but spread in a z-axis on the seat base. You are right. I have watched several videos from Ammo NYC & Chrisfix before deciding to get this product & have a go at it myself. These guys make it look so easy, even with all the information they share & with all of the precautions, something is always amiss & I made a mess of it. My questions to the experts 1. Do I try again with the same product? 2. If yes, then any changes in the procedure, without still possessing the vacuum cleaner? 3. Or just leave it as is & go ahead with getting seat covers? As I planned on getting them once I get rid of the stains. Thanks, Neo Last edited by neo_narender : 20th February 2021 at 05:09. Reason: Added a few more details. | ||
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() Could anybody recommend me a good filler wax that could hide minor swirl marks. |
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