Published on: 29/09/2017 Updated on: 20/02/2025
With the fall season, we spend more and more time in the car. It is therefore appropriate to maintain as clean and comfortable an environment as possible, starting with the care and cleanliness of car seats.
Many cars come with fabric interiors and seats: today we want to give you some tips on how to treat or clean your seats in case of unexpected stains or dirt.
Tips for cleaning fabric car seats
To carry out proper cleaning of seats and upholstery, certain steps should be followed:
- Proceed with a thorough vacuuming of dust and dirt that has settled and accumulated on the seats over time. A vacuum cleaner or regular brush should be used to carry out this operation.
To be sure that you have removed the dust residue, we recommend doing the simple "slamming" test: beat hard with a beater or vigorously with your hands on the seat and see if excess dust rises up.
This may seem like an unorthodox method, but we can assure you that it works. The risk of not doing this initial step is that we will mix the cleaner we are going to apply with the dirt present, creating more harm than good
- A second important expedient is to use detergents evenly over the entire seat and not just on the stained areas.
The risk, in this case, is not to obtain a uniform result but to accentuate the differences between treated and untreated parts. Spreading the product over the entire seat, on the other hand, ensures a complete and uniform cleansing-renewing effect
- One last tip we want to give you is about the windows. It may sound trivial, but very often it happens that you forget the windows open and the water that enters the car inevitably ends up on the seats, creating a mixture with dirt that is difficult to remove.
Prevention is always better than cure, so windows always tightly closed to avoid annoying stains
Products to use to clean fabric car seats
We recommend two highly specific products for cleaning fabric car seats:
3-in-1 Fabric Treatment: features a special active foam that does not wet the fabric. Used with a microfiber cloth, it is perfect against any accidental dirt stains such as drinks or smoke
You can buy 3 in 1 fabrics here www.auto-spa.it or see it here http://www.mafra.it/pulire-interno-auto.html
Flash: equipped with a special ergonomic brush to improve product performance, it features a formula with an "Odor Stop" effect, effective on odors caused by animals, food and tobacco.
You can buy Flash here http://www.auto-spa.it/smacchiare-pulire-sedili-auto-a-secco.html
