Go out and rent a commercial carpet cleaner you would use to clean your
house carpets, it will usually have upholstery attachments as well.  You'll
be able to do all of your van interior.  Up here in B.C. you can rent these
units for the day for maybe $ 30.00 or so.  Larger food store chains,
Canadian Tire and even Home Depot should be able to help out.  The
combination of hot water, soap and vacuum used in these machines will usally
clean up very well.
Claudio Cella
87  Vanagon  GL  7 pass.
90  Jetta  TD

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Cotsford" <Cotsford@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: I need a POWERFUL upholstery cleaner

> My '91 Carat has light grey upholstery and carpets with some stains on it
from previous lives.
> I have used the upholstery cleaners you can get in auto parts stores with
plastic scrubbers etc., and some of the spot removers and the result is
better but there are still some stubborn stains.
> Short of taking the upholstery out and using the "purple" cleaners, hose
etc. to try and deal with this, what is the groups' collective wisdom ?
>
> cheers,
> Steve Cotsford
> Columbia SC