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Plaid seats + Blue Coral = clean seats
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MaliciousMK6
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Omg what is this, what did you do, and where do I get it. I really want to clean up my seats.
IVVVIKris
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MaliciousMK6
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It's Blue Coral upholstery cleaner. Picked it up from amazon for $9.
Great thx I'm definetly going to pick this up
MaliciousMK6
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IVVVIKris
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Haha well your loss my gain!
Yeah, I got that plus 2 cans of Scotch Guard which advance does not carry, so I suppose it all evens out. I'm just happy I have clean seats now!
snowboardgti
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i always wonder how those cleaners actually 'lift' out the dirt vs just seep them in deeper into the foam?
IVVVIKris
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If it's a carbon based cleaner I might be able to explain it once I finish my organic chemistry class in December.
XGC75
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I took a short course in cleaning products (I'm a controls engineer for washing machines). Most soaps use "surfactants" which are molecules like little magnets. One side of the molecule is attracted to the partial negative polarity of water and the other side is opposed. When you have a piece of dirt on a surface surrounded by a water/surfactant solution, the surfactants will orient themselves against the dirt and actually physically lift the soil off the surface. Found it fascinating, myself.
Worth noting that a carbon bases cleaner probably doesn't work the same way, but wth now you know
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snowboardgti
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you mean its basically soap right? its how soap works with 'washing' away fats..
even if the 'soil is lifted,' or surrounded, it could still go the opposite way.. ie. the other side of the seat and into the foam....
edit: im trying to figure out the best way to clean my seats. i figured going w/ rug doctor would be the easiest/cleanest route since it vaccumes up all the water
even if the 'soil is lifted,' or surrounded, it could still go the opposite way.. ie. the other side of the seat and into the foam....
edit: im trying to figure out the best way to clean my seats. i figured going w/ rug doctor would be the easiest/cleanest route since it vaccumes up all the water
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SABOtage
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Surfactants in the form of micelles which are spheres of phospholipids composed of phospholipids with a shell consisting of hydrophilic heads (water loving) and charged hydrophobic tails pointed in towards the core. As far as I know, micelles are involved in electrostatic interactions with dirt and particles having a charge. I only know this because it was on my MCAT
