KED85

Hope I'm in right section!
I have to clean my Tan/Doeskin carpeting.
I know new costs $220-ish or so.
I've go a scrub brush, a shop vac & no problem removing the seats.
I was suggested de-greaser/simple green diluted with water, scrub. Do not saturate & get the under padding wet.
I know it won't look 100% & the knap will still be kinda beat, but.......

How bad is the carpeting? It's bad but no holes worn thru yet. I feel stains can come out, ok & I accept not perfect stain removal. Perfect stain removal will be accomplished by new carpet one day.

Tips?
Thanks!

joshp14

What's this? An interior board?! Whoa!

I'm moving this to interior for ya...

Josh

KED85

Are you close by Mason City, Iowa & S & R Chevrolet? My 1974 Corvette was originally sold at that dealership Sept. 1973.
Thanks for the assist!

Mako

Took my TA to the gas station down the road. They had a vacuum with a shampoo thing on it too. For $3 I shampooed my carpet and vacuumed it pretty near dry. Maybe theres some in your area.

joshp14

Nope....Des Moines. Not a problem...

TomP

KED, you can get a new carpet for $120 from http://www.1aauto.com , it's made by ACC, and actually got drop-shipped to my house from ACC without me even asking. The invoice came a week later in the mail from 1A.

I've heard you can use brake cleaner on carpet without the carpet fading, but I've never tested that theory...

KED85

HI Tom,
Now it's $239! You got real lucky!
Brake cleaner.
I gotta find vacuum attachment & get to work.....

1991Formula350

I use Tuff Stuff, a big spray bottle found in auto cleaning section, very good and strong! Also I use a lot of baby wipes, they too are great and work great on door handles. Andy

MFaulkner

This might not be an option, but I took my carpet out, took the jute off the back, draped it over a sawhorse-like thing, sprayed it down with simple green, scrubbed, and rinsed and rinsed and rinsed with a garden hose... Looked a lot better afterwards.

KED85

I was gonna try mixing Simple Green & water & scrubbing & vacuuming.
Thanks for confirming that may be best bet.

Gus_Mahn

Carpet holds a lot of dirt. The best way I've found to clean it is Simple Green and a pressure washer. It should be removed first Pressure wash it until the water isn't dirty any more. Spray it down with straight Simple Green. Scrub and rinse it clean. Leave it out side in the sun to dry for a couple of days to dry. Typically there is some staining of light colored carpets that won't come out. This works great for cloth seats also. It works way better than steam cleaners. If you have to put stuff back into the car while it is still wet, just leave the windows open for a few days or it will get musty.

Auto Zone's brake creal does work well a cloth cleaner. I use it on everthing and its never dammaged anything for me.

KED85

I don't have the opportunity to remove & presusre wash.
BUT that is TWO for Simple Green.
What about Bleechy White Wall Cleaner?
Diluted?

tstokka

I live north of mason city about 9 miles.

TomP

Actually you looked at the wrong price! For 85-92, it's on the second page, and it's $132... up a bit from what I paid, but still not near $239. As you can tell, I just bought the passenger area piece; the cargo area carpet still looks new- and nobody sits back there anyway.

KED85

Tom, This same place sells the set for $200 + shipping on ebay, now, too!
IF I didn't have to buy a 1974 Corvette Rear bumper cover assembly.....

jcurrieirocz

i used tuff stuff with the brush on it that works good. or you can rent a steam cleaner which is sweet. Or you can do what i recenlty did i took mine out and used (small amount) of landry soap and srubed the wet carpet with a brush and rinced the carpet good with a pressure washer,,,,if you dont got one stick your carpet in the back of a pickup truck bed (if you got one)and go to a local car wash with hand pressure washer. and just use the soap they got there. Hang it on a then leave in sun for a day or so.

KED85

Second call for removing & using a carwash!
At moment, my tools will be a old vacuum, scrub brush, simple green & bleechy tire white wall cleaner (for the tough spots).
I have no desire to rent a steam cleaner CAUSE THEN WIFE WILL THINK I'LL BE SHAMPOOING THE HOUSE WALL TO WALL CARPET!

TomP

That's funny!!! (About the wife seeing the steam cleaner and making more work for you!)

And dude you're looking at the wrong set... well, unless you do want a full carpet set. Here's one of those eBay links that I've been talking about: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2448787387 It's just the passenger area, the spot under the seats. It doesn't include the section for the hatchback area (the flap behind the rear seat foldback).

What about one of those detailing places? I wonder what they'd charge just to do the carpet... might even charge less (or do a better job) if you pulled up with just a driver's seat in the car, and the rest of the seats at home?

KED85

ACTUALLY....
I've asked a couple of drive by detailing guys...
They told me to them, it's history.
One guys told me to use engine degreaser & scrub brush.
What's Simple Green, right?
Same thing.
I found ACC Carpet from the place you recommended, Tom, on ebay & they sell front & back new carpet for $200 a very fair price.