How To Clean Seats

My local Aldi had the Dr Beckmann carpet cleaner on special the last couple of times I went in, I bought two bottles £3 ea? these have worked a treat:

If you need more then that then a rug doctor hire from your local supermarket may be in order, but thats around £30 all in, so go the cheap route first and use some elbow grease!
 
Ok so for arm rests / plastic a general all purpose cleaner is fine - just ensure its not too strong and you use a nice clean micro fibre. Lots of companies do a decent APC like Meguairs or autobrite.

I do use Fab from autobrite on fabrics with a foaming sprayer. Dilute down into a sprayer and brush likely with an upholstery brush into the fabric seats. If its badly soiled you can repeat or indeed enhance with a portable steamer alongside the cleaner. Wipe down and repeat as required with old clean rags.
 
Yep, brought my oil / dog stained cream seats up a treat. Should have seen the muck that came out in the water bowl when i wiped them off with a white flannel.
 
Ok so for arm rests / plastic a general all purpose cleaner is fine - just ensure its not too strong and you use a nice clean micro fibre. Lots of companies do a decent APC like Meguairs or autobrite.

I do use Fab from autobrite on fabrics with a foaming sprayer. Dilute down into a sprayer and brush likely with an upholstery brush into the fabric seats. If its badly soiled you can repeat or indeed enhance with a portable steamer alongside the cleaner. Wipe down and repeat as required with old clean rags.
APC??
 
Autoglym hi-foam interior shampoo, or Ambersil Auto Groom foaming upholstery cleaner should work for all of those, you should find both in Halfords. For the whole set of seats, door cards and mats I'd be looking at 3-4 tins if heavily soiled.

You can do the rear seats out of the car to make life easier: once removed, lie them down on their flat backs and push down the metal collars on the locating studs on what is normally the underside. Be careful not to open the seats up beyond their normal angle in the car though (suggest to stop at 90°) otherwise it can damage something in the mechanism.
 
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Post #1 and 5 shows before and after on our seats(also a blue CS). If you have access to a wet vac I'd recommend that though the rug doctor worked well(I had several cars to do so it worked out cheaper to buy than hire. I used star drops APC(orange liquid from B&M or similar), as recommended by @depronman, and now me. ?
 
Rug Doctor Spot Cleaner is really good for seats and around £130 or £80 for a refurb one. Or Autoglym Interior Cleaner, the non foaming version seems to work better on tough stains.
 
Those wet carpet vacuums work a treat too if you have one of those though need to leave it to dry for a little while afterwards.
 
I recently bought Halford own brand upholstery cleaner, £4 simply spray on and wipe clean, worked a treat on my seats which had an oil stain on, would definitely recommend!
 
Just spotted this in my recommendation list

Call me sad, but the air vent before and after is my favourite, followed by those rear doors.
 
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