Carpet extracting help!

mohamedmaark

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I have recently bought the LGM and i have done a few extractions and for the most part its been coming out good. Although ive had a problem when i went to extract the car seats, it happened on two occasions. When i extract the car seats it would clean the seats completely and then there will be a few spots that have a orangish color and no matter how much i try to clean and extract it it will keep coming back take a look... Any body have a idea why this happens?
 

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Those are deep stains that the LGM doesnt have te power to lift. They are good machines, but they dont have much lift power. You might try spraying it down with the LGM, then extracting with a wet/dry vac. Cloth seats can be a headache to clean. Heres a method I came up with that works well.
www.autopiaforums.com/forums/members-how-library/31598-shampooing-cloth-seats-according-me.html

I read your writeup awhile back so when I was in my local Advance Auto and saw their Tuff Stuff on sale Buy Tuff Stuff Tuff Stuff Multi-Purpose foam Cleaner Aerosol (22 oz.) 00350 at Advance Auto Parts it reminded me of it so I stocked up on a couple cans just for that purpose.

They still are on sale 2 for $5, regular price $4.29.
 
Those are deep stains that the LGM doesnt have te power to lift. They are good machines, but they dont have much lift power. You might try spraying it down with the LGM, then extracting with a wet/dry vac. Cloth seats can be a headache to clean. Heres a method I came up with that works well.
www.autopiaforums.com/forums/members-how-library/31598-shampooing-cloth-seats-according-me.html
You do have a good point it could be deep stains but, what i was thinking is maybe the water i was using is to hot or maybe im spraying to much water, and the foam thats under the cloth gets wet and transfers color. Im talking about the foam in this pic >>>http://image.mustangmonthly.com/f/18063256+w750+st0/mump_0905_15_z+fox_body_upholstery+foam_channels.jpg<<<<
 
could be stains leeching from the foam back up through the seat cover
i had a similar problem with my lgm when i over saturated my seats for a unreported coffee stain that was deep set into the foam. took a lot of cleaning and thoroughly drying the seats with a fan afterwards. just air drying didn't work. i believe a strong shop vac would have helped some.
 
When this happens to me I litterally have to push down as hard as I can with my MyTee extractor to get it where it won't come back when it dries. I have the biggest one they make though(shop use). Another option you have if your ok knowing it's not perfect, Wait for it to dry completely. Using your car heater on full blast with a window cracked can speed this up a lot. Just take some fairly diluted apc, scrub brush, and a towel. Use a little apc to scrub the stain and blot with the towel. This is will make the surface stain go away and your not getting it wet enough for it to come back up again when it dries. Use to be standard practice at the big scratch and shine I worked at for a few months lol.
 
I would scrub over it with a foam cleaner and see what happens to it. Just don't use the extractor on it.
 
Have had to do a few completely flooded restorations up here where it rains all the time and some people do not understand about rolling up all the windows.. for days....

Seat foam especially is thick and really absorbs water, and is not really wanting to give it all up. It will hold on to the moisture until, as Jsmooth said above, you have to really press it hard to get the foam to release the water, with the best suction you can get.
It can take a few hours and you might get some water but there is still water in that foam that will only come out by drying, as Jsmooth said above, with heat and air circulation.
This seat probably got too wet and now the water is still deep down there and it is coming up and bringing up whatever else gunk is down there with it.

I have had better results in cases like this by removing the seat/s and extracting the water from the other side of the foam, pressing down really hard on the foam but taking care not to cut it or break anything in the process..

Good luck with this,
DanF
 
So i should definitely try extracting with less water use.... and i have extracted other car seats before that don't have the same color seats like this maybe black cloth seats and none other than these color seats do this color transfer.
 
I have never experienced color transfer like the above, and I always use Steam and my Extractor, to positively remove as much moisture-laden dirt as possible. You know, you do not have to key up the water when using an extractor. One can just take advantage of the Extractor's superior water lift to remove as much moisture as possible hopefully quickly.
Dan F
 
So it is the foam like in this pic >>>>http://image.mustangmonthly.com/f/1...0905_15_z+fox_body_upholstery+foam_channels.j pg<<< transferring color right? And you said that you just kept trying to vacuum it until dry with your mytee?

If you are asking me this, no I had to do my work on a few BMW's that were leather covered. So extracting from above is not really going to do much and you have to go in from underneath.
But, to your great pic, yes, if that foam is soaked, you really need to get deep into it carefully and you will be amazed at how much water some foams soak up and are not going to give it back up easily.

The many cloth covered seats I have done in the past have always been much easier to work with and certainly the cloth will allow much more moisture to come out provided you have enough water lift to make it happen.
And sometimes, you may still have to go from the underside.
Just feel the foam, is it feeling still wet when you squeeze it? Does water transfer to your hand when you squeeze the foam there? If yes, and its alot , then you still have work to do.
Sometimes, if you actually have the sun out, putting those foam parts out in the sun will speed up the process too.

Dan F
 
I have recently bought the LGM and i have done a few extractions and for the most part its been coming out good. Although ive had a problem when i went to extract the car seats, it happened on two occasions. When i extract the car seats it would clean the seats completely and then there will be a few spots that have a orangish color and no matter how much i try to clean and extract it it will keep coming back take a look... Any body have a idea why this happens?

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this happens all the time. been dealing with it for 20 years and no matter what extractor you use, if someone spilled a dark liquid in the seat, it will come back up to the surface as it dries. here is what I have always found that works the best. 1) let the seat dry completely (very important) 2) you don't need any cleaner at that point, just something that will absorb, or mop up the stain. the thing that I have found works the best...a wet chamois. not dripping wet, but get it soaked then wring it out and blot/scrub the stain. then let it dry for a bit and do it again. repeat until its gone, usually just once or twice. often times people deliver cars back to the client while still damp, because the client gets off work and needs their car by 3:00 or whatever, and you don't have time to get it completely dry first, then the car dries that night and, sure enough, the next morning the seats can often times look worse than before you started cleaning them. this might very well be the most frustrating and hard to manage thing about the entire detailing process. the seats look great right after you extract them, then look horrible 3 hours later. all that spilled liquid rises back to the top and must be soaked up again.
 
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