Tips for Cleaning Upholstery? Now long and boring

[ansonivan at yahoo.com (Anson Clement)]

If you have the time/determination removing the covers from the foam/frame yields wonderfull results. Removal of the fabric must be done with reasonable care as the old material is prone to ripping, if you can source new "hog rings" (the little doo-hicky's used to attach the fabric) you can cut off the old ones thereby reducing the risk of ripage.
 
I did the front seats on my 8V some time ago, I was able to re-use all the old hog rings but they were a little anoying to re-attach since they were mis-shapen and I did'nt own a pair of hog ring pliers.
 
Removal of the covers facilitates the use of nastier detergents (purple power baby!)  rinsing  and drying of the afforementioned is greatly simplified as well. 
Another benefit of seat disrobement is the opportunity to custom fit the seat to your arse and back, strips of foam can be added to the inner sides of bolsters to snug things up.
Cheapass Ron performed this upon the seats currently residing in Victor and I'll be the first to testify that they are some of the finest feeling seats my sit-upon has sat-upon.
 
So yea... the bottom line, no pun intended, is real men remove the seat fabric before washing them : )
 
Anson
 


Jeff Toomasson <jtoomasson@yahoo.com> wrote:
I scored a decent set of tan recaro fabric from a mk2 to redo the A1 GTi seats that are currently in my cabby (many thanks to Mark Hausler for busting his butt to remove them for me at the yard). They're pretty dirty, though they could be considered "clean" since they came out of a yard...

Anyway, has anyone tried to clean their seats (with any success)? 

A buddy of mine (a list lurker) has a hand-held steamer, but that seems like it would take forever.

- Washing machine?

- Mount on frames, scrub and air dry?

thanks in advance! JT
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