I've remover the seats, and carpet. Hose them down,
thru power laundry soap on them, scrubbed, hosed again
and sun dry. I think "spray them with oven cleaner"
may eat the fabric.
                                       Eric

Andrew Fox wrote:

>Does anyone else have suggestions for cleaning the grey bench seats in a
>westy?  I guess brown coming thru from the foam with the brown seats is'nt
>such a problem.  I'm sure somebody has successfully cleaned their grey
>seats without removing the fabric?  I once read on this list that we
>should take the seats out of the van spray them with oven cleaner, scrub
>real good, rinse, and leave them out in the hot sun to dry.  Anyone ever
>try this or anything else with grey seats or is this just another example
>of how VW made another careless mistake with their choice of foam that we
>all now have to live with?
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>Thanks,
>Andrew Fox
>Dirty 87 Westy grey interior parts van.
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>On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Eric and Marica wrote:
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>>Unless you can remove the fabric (does it unzip from the pad?) you are
>>likely stuck.
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>>I did try an aerosol can of spray paint for fabric once (to replace your
>>grey colour, paint over it!) but expect that it will take a lot of paint
>>and there will be over spray - take the seat outside and tape it up.  I
>>bought it at Canadian tire in Canada, I expect you could find the same
>>elsewhere.  Seat covers are likely much easier.
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>>Hope this helps,
>>
>>Eric
>>'80 Westie "Rusty"
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
>>Of jesse and monica
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 5:28 PM
>>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>Subject: Cleaning Interior Question...
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>>Hello All,
>>I started to clean my 89 Vanagon seats tonight with upholstery cleaner
>>and something weird happened. My gray seat began to turn brown...the
>>harder that i scrubbed the more a gross brown color started to come
>>though. So i stopped. Seems that maybe the foam under the material has
>>dye in it and it's coming through when it's getting wet. Anyone run into
>>this before? I never have. Not sure what to do. Now i have a half brown
>>seat!! Do you think maybe just good old soap and water would do the
>>trick? Im at a loss and don't want to make it any worse... Suggestions
>>anyone? Thanks as usual, Jesse
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