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Now I've read the leather restoration topic and found that gliptone is the one of the best in terms of restoring and cleaning leather interior so now thats done I need to move onto the carpet what is the method to restoring, cleaning is it simply to take it out and steam clean it or I've been told that meguiars carpet spray cleaner is also quite good all hepl will be appreciated.

take your carpet out to clean it and dry it out properly. I used a wet vacuum and it came up like new. Ive also used the meguiars carpet cleaner for cleaning stains off the parcel shelf. It worked fine but i think it would onlt be good for isolated stains on a carpet. To get it fully clean take it out and scrub it well getting all the stains off it.

This is isomething i am interested in going as well, how easy / difficult is it to remove the front seats?

4 bolts in each seat holding the seat to the floor. I used my wheel brace and it worked a treat. 10 minute job to get them out. Then 1 bolt for each of the seat belts and 2 centre consols and thats pretty much it. Oh i cut my carpet along under the heating matrix cause its quite tight to get back in. Cut is not visible when consoles are back in.

my friend just washed 2 or 3 and they come out ok shocking the colour of the water that 1st come out

did remove from the car 1st

i think id like to clean my carpets as well, but saying that id rather have black carpet in my car.... does anyone no where i can get black carpet from??

TomCropp wrote:i think id like to clean my carpets as well, but saying that id rather have black carpet in my car.... does anyone no where i can get black carpet from??

dye them your self

will be restoring mine so might do a guide

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... 77#1198077

page 2 just done mine with one of these, if you go to page 1 you will see how bad they were



its like one of them rug doctors

Alex wrote:http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... 77#1198077

page 2 just done mine with one of these, if you go to page 1 you will see how bad they were



its like one of them rug doctors

I've got that exact same one! I did my carpet a few months ago when it was out but didn't have the vax then so used a pressure washer, a stiff brush and some carpet cleaner. I'm not totaly happy with the result so it will be coming out again in the future to get the vax on it. I did the floor mats with the vax recently and they came up like new.

bss325i wrote:

Alex wrote:http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... 77#1198077

page 2 just done mine with one of these, if you go to page 1 you will see how bad they were



its like one of them rug doctors

I've got that exact same one! I did my carpet a few months ago when it was out but didn't have the vax then so used a pressure washer, a stiff brush and some carpet cleaner. I'm not totaly happy with the result so it will be coming out again in the future to get the vax on it. I did the floor mats with the vax recently and they came up like new.

yer there not bad i needed to buy a new tool for it to do the carpets because the thing never came with a small wash tool

http://www.espares.co.uk/product.aspx?m ... =143036070

thats it, it also seems to wash better than the bigger head

Alex wrote:http://www.espares.co.uk/product.aspx?m ... =143036070

thats it, it also seems to wash better than the bigger head

Ahh excelent! I did try to use the big wash head that comes with it but it needs to be completely flat to get suction, as you will know the carpet when in the car isn't flat.

bss325i wrote:

Alex wrote:http://www.espares.co.uk/product.aspx?m ... =143036070

thats it, it also seems to wash better than the bigger head

Ahh excelent! I did try to use the big wash head that comes with it but it needs to be completely flat to get suction, as you will know the carpet when in the car isn't flat.

will be putting carpet back in this afternoon so will put some pics up

i need to properly tackle my carpets, not got one of those deeleys you all used for it so, is there any other way you can do it???

carpet shampoo and a scrubing brush

Alex wrote:

TomCropp wrote:i think id like to clean my carpets as well, but saying that id rather have black carpet in my car.... does anyone no where i can get black carpet from??

dye them your self

will be restoring mine so might do a guide

theres already a guide on here for that ill find it for ya