I have had really good luck by taking the carpets out as well as the rear
cushion covers and spreading them on a blue tarp in the driveway.
I use citrus cleaner and whatever types of detergents you like and use
electric pressure washer.
Drape the carpet over some sawhorses so it will drain and rinse.

Most of the interior of the vanagon is a polyester type fabric like the
curtains
It does not really want to hold moisture.

Careful drying it though for that reason its like a plastic in a way and can
easily get damaged.

Doug

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Baird" <westyman71@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: cleaning westy matress covers

> Hi group,
>
> Funny this should come up.  I have removed the interior fabric (seats,
> cushion covers, etc..) from 2 vanagons and one eurovan and ran them all
> through the washing machine.  I even cleaned the carpet from one vanagon
> this way.
>
> Hot water, tide and oxy clean added, with the long washing cycle.  Carpet
> was air dryed, but the rest was low heat with Bounce in the dryer.
>
> CLEAN, CLEAN, CLEAN!!  No wrinkles and went back on without a problem.
>
> Try it