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geordie

By geordie,
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Stay away from it it dont steam, and once my seats are dry i might be able to tell you if it cleans......might.

I did what it said, spray area, pull trigger, rub back and forwards 2 or 3 times then release trigger for super fast dry action. Rubbed back forth 2-3 times.....after $6 worth on one spot of "super fast drying action" moving back and forward i gave up...

You could achieve similar results by throwing a bucket of water in your interior.

My seats are wet, i spent 1hour with sis hair dryer drying them out best i could, hopefully its sunny tommorow!

Moral is - IT dont work!, Dont try it!

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Who do you complain to its all coin operated unmaned?

I now have water marks/stains around the edges of the seats. And all i wanted to do was put a nice finsihing touch on a sucesful install of my full GTR interior :cheers:

Im planning on lodging a complaintive letter.

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Just complain. They will probably get it detailed for you. I had a car wash incident similar to that and they made it all good.

Oh these places usually are manned in business hours and if not the contact number is usually on the service door.

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You shouldnt use those dodgy interior steam cleaners, I was a car detailer for over 2 years and I will only use something like a Britex with proper interior shampoo, its not a steam cleaner it a wet vac = better results, quicker and if you get a couple of mates together and hire one from Woollies and do all your cars its pretty cheap.

If you want the easy way out go to Advanced car detailing in Phillip and get an apolstery clean for around $100 <--- Its worth it if its really grubby!

geordie Proficient

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The interior isnt that bad, i just was so pleased with my self with a sucessful change over from stock gts to complete gtr that i thought i would top it all off with a nice lil stema clean........

This at car lovers?? i used it to clean my whole interior, did a mad job, for only $10!

Maybe it was broken or something?

Must be, coz this was terrible, did everything but clean, i now have water marks all over the seats :D

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I must admit, it didnt remove everything, but it cleaned off the marks that a vacuume cleaner couldnt clean off (chocolate icing powder) and did an awsome job of it... unlucky to hear about your experiance, wouldnt suprise me if it was broken as so many people treat others property like shit!!!

Sorry 2 hear about your watermarks man

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