snowsport wrote:
I have the grey cloth seats too. I tried everything I could find, including a "professional" car cleaning service, and nothing took out the stains. I tried spray Oxy Clean and rinsed it out good with a damp sponge. When it dried the seats were like brand new.
IDK much about the various waterproofing options, but the "professional" car cleaning service claimed they had waterproofed the seats. If they did, it wasn't worth what they charged. I'm just going to stick with the Oxy Clean if the seats get stained again. It doesn't take long and it's not expensive. You might try a small area on your seat just in case the fabrics are different from one year to another: mine's an 03.
This tip saved my Liberty from being sold prematurely due to my wife’s disgust of the numerous stains inflicted by mud, sodas, kids, and just plain water on our gray fabric seats. I’ve tried numerous upholstery and carpet cleaners. Every time, the stains come back within a few days or weeks. Last month I followed this tip and the stains are gone for good – or at least until we get them dirty again with fresh mud.
This is what I did. I purchased an Oxy fabric spot remover spray for about $5 from Wal-Mart. I sprayed it on directly to the spots and then lightly over the rest of the seat. Then I used a sponge to apply controlled rinsing quantities of clean water to the seats and used a wet/dry vacuum to suck the dirty water out. When you scrub the fabric with the wet sponge over fabric that still has Oxy cleaner in it, it foams up covering the fabric with white fizz. I repeated applying water with the sponge and vacuuming it out until the fabric no longer fizzed white with Oxy cleaner foam. Parked under a hot Texas sun the seats mostly dried within 3 hours. By the next morning they were completely dry.
I tested one seat (the dirtiest) about 6 weeks ago. The results were perfect – like new – and the stains have not returned. I treated the rest of the interior (including carpets) about two weeks ago with similarly good results.
When I emptied the wet/dry vacuum, the water looked like hot chocolate with un-dissolved chocolate mix (sludge) in the bottom of the mug. I did not try to drink it.
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