Cream cloth interior

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Popped in to local valetting Co. to see how much for full valet, which turns out to be £70 for 3 hour comprehensive job.

This particular guy is'nt cheap, but highly reccomended, say's he will only do it for this price as drivers seat has to be taken out of car to thoroughly clean the cream cloth that my model has.

Seat would then be left to dry out for at least 24 hrs, before refitting.

If seat is cleaned as normal, dirt will work its way to surface cloth ingrained in straw material under the cloth after only a week or so.

Anyone else been told this?

Keith.

 

[jberks]

I had cream cloth in my W210. I would use a carpet cleaner on it every 6 months or so with very good results. Took the rear swab out but only because its easy and avoids those stain marks at the edges.

I can't see why the driver's seat needs to come out. You can get to all the important areas of it without. Ok, maybe some muck would drift back up from the base foam/straw as you sat on the damp seat, but it would be negligible and I can't see what you can do to avoid it (apart from not siiting on it until its fully dry, unless he intends to remove the fabric from the seat until it dries, which is a pretty good service for only £70 but I'd be a bit concerned that it went back in an identical fashion.

Doesn't quite add up to me.

 

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Thanks for that JB.

 

[television]

Intresting point here, leather is one thing, cloth something else. I never did manage to clean the cloth seats in my 300TE, I would clean them with every known brand of cleaner and they would look fine, I week later I was back to square one.

malcolm

 

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Thanks for your input, and I must admit that on my previous 2 Mercs the cloth behaved in the same way on beige & grey interiors.

The grey was chosen with Azurite Blue from new back in 94, and seat became just as dirty after only 3 month's of use from new.

The Beige was interior on 1st Merc 88 model & seat collapsed after a year or so when I had the seat rebuilt by a local trimmer who stung me for £450 twelve years ago or so, wonder what that would cost now?

Have been to parts at MB to ask for replacement covers which came out at a ridiculous £375 + VAT & was told that whole seat cannot be bought complete, to replace entirely.

At the high mileage of nearly 200,000 miles coming up, I'm wondering if its still worth having seat thoroughly cleaned like this, or just to entirely replace with a breakers yard equivilent - but then could end up with a worse situation at a future time.

Thanks again,
Keith.

 

[Chazchuzzlewitt]

I'd agree with JB- I use carpet cleaner on my seats with a wet vac and they come up nice. Make sure you let them dry thoroughly though.