They hae machines made to clean residential carpet Rinse -n vac, etc.
The Hoover one has a little had attachment with air powered scrubbing
brush that is hand held. IOW, power brush with water jets and wet vac.
Someone said:" the solution to pollution is dilution" Well, maybe in
this case!
Al Brase

Mike Collum wrote:

> I agree with Bob.  Lots of liquid and a wet-r-dry vacuum.
>
> Mike
>
>
> Bob Stevens wrote:
>
>> "any ideas on how to get this old coffee out of the seat foam without
>> taking
>>
>>> the seat apart...?"
>>
>>
>>
>> Chris, if you'll keep doing what you are doing, eventually the amount of
>> residue in the foam will begin to dissipate. I had a stainless
>> thermos, full
>> of coffee, "explode" while it was sitting on the psgr. seat, while
>> the van
>> was in PHX in June/July at Karl's while the tranny was being fixed.
>> He did a
>> hell of a job of cleaning and that's what he faced but at least it was
>> caught early .... more recent probably made that a little easier but
>> still a
>> patience-job. I finished the project after getting the van back home.
>> One
>> thing that will facilitate extracting/pulling the stain out of the foam:
>> once you've been working on it awhile and it's pretty damp, put a fairly
>> water-loaded sponge on it and let the water drench into the fabric
>> and foam.
>> Go to a car wash where they have strong vacuum's and while using that to
>> pull the water + stain back out, have terry towels to catch/wipe the
>> stain
>> and water off the fabric surface. Maybe you have a shop vac that will
>> work
>> for this?
>>
>> Eventually this will get most of the stain out, just takes time and
>> patience.
>>
>> Good scrubbing ;)
>>
>> bob
>>
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