Just a little bit of leftover soap in these mats.

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gmblack3

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I have been maintaining this BMW 135i since Sept of last year. The mats always felt sticky to me when I would vacuum. I did a full detail on the car this week. I vacuumed the mats and tried to extract using pure water with my HP60. I could still see the soap in the mats. I then pressure washed them, WOW! Followed up with my extractor, dried overnight with a fan. Then applied 303 high tech fabric guard.



 
C. Charles Hahn said:
Wow. Whoever left all that soap in there should be reminded that it won't lead to the mats being self-cleaning!
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Charlie, as a matter of fact, since the surfactants in the "soap/cleaning" product are as they are, when they are allowed to stay in the fibers, will be "sticky", which then draws more soil from shoes, etc that come in contact with the carpet/seat fabric.

May look clean when someone doses the heck out of a carpet or seat fabric, but if they do not "extract/remove" the surfactants from the carpet/seat fabric, it will actually get more "soiled/dirty" and quicker than if cleaned with plain hot water.

Not my words, but from many industry cleaning experts, who do work for their organizations.

Grumpy
 
Ron Ketcham said:
Charlie, as a matter of fact, since the surfactants in the "soap/cleaning" product are as they are, when they are allowed to stay in the fibers, will be "sticky", which then draws more soil from shoes, etc that come in contact with the carpet/seat fabric.

May look clean when someone doses the heck out of a carpet or seat fabric, but if they do not "extract/remove" the surfactants from the carpet/seat fabric, it will actually get more "soiled/dirty" and quicker than if cleaned with plain hot water.

Not my words, but from many industry cleaning experts, who do work for their organizations.

Grumpy
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:werd: That's pretty much what I was getting at; the soap attracts dirt, it doesn't repel it.
 
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Ron Ketcham said:
In the words of Dave Hestor--"yuuppp!"

As you are aware the thing that this site can bring to the party is knowledge, that such as you, have accumulated, and sharing it with the newbies.

If we don't provide some "inside explaination" of what makes things happen, no one wins, no one gains anything other than another bottle on the shelf.
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