After scrubbing with blue Dawn dish soap and a stiff bristle brush my Weathertech floor mats still look dirty.
They're in great shape and I think they can look new again. But what do I use on them? I don't want any residue, oily or otherwise, that I will have to clean off or will get onto the carpets, so no Armor-All.
What do you recommend?
I used simple green and a scrub brush. Sprayed it heavy, let it sit a couple minutes, scrubbed, rinsed, and repeat.
Two to three spray scrub rinse they looked a lot better.
Before we left on family vacation, I pulled the year old generic weathertec clones out of the Mopar van. Purple power degreaser (or the simple green clone of your choice) and then a scrub brush like you might clean a bathtub with.
Outside; wash, rinse, repeat.
I'd start with a power washer.
As with everything, start gentle, then move up. Purple power is not gentle. Pressure washer is not gentle.
Simple Green is decently gentle.
I'd start with a dish soap and ammonia mix, with hot water and a nice stiff brush. May take a couple applications. Do this for the interior mat of my truck every couple years and it works excellently.
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Tim, our detail expert, is always recommending SD-20 for cleaning plastic and rubber, so I just ordered a can.
Bleche Wite tire cleaner. Makes black rubber look like new again.
Armor-all. Suffer through a few dangerous days but in the end they look good. That's what's important.
Another vote for Bleche-Wite.
Look like new.
Mr_Asa said:As with everything, start gentle, then move up. Purple power is not gentle. Pressure washer is not gentle.
Simple Green is decently gentle.
I'd start with a dish soap and ammonia mix, with hot water and a nice stiff brush. May take a couple applications. Do this for the interior mat of my truck every couple years and it works excellently.
Sounds like DWNSHFT already tried gentle and it didn't work.
Weathertech floor mats are hard plastic, you're not going to hurt them with a power washer unless you have it on pencil beam.
codrus (Forum Supporter) said:Mr_Asa said:As with everything, start gentle, then move up. Purple power is not gentle. Pressure washer is not gentle.
Simple Green is decently gentle.
I'd start with a dish soap and ammonia mix, with hot water and a nice stiff brush. May take a couple applications. Do this for the interior mat of my truck every couple years and it works excellently.
Sounds like DWNSHFT already tried gentle and it didn't work.
Weathertech floor mats are hard plastic, you're not going to hurt them with a power washer unless you have it on pencil beam.
Yes, so you step up, you don't jump up. Its like polishing, you go with 100 grit, then 200, 400, 800 and so on.
You don't go from gentle to "holy berkeley"
I pull mine out at the car wash. Spray them down with tire cleaner and blast the hell out of them. The car wash even has clips on the walls to hold them while you do it.
Headed down there after my 10 am meeting to do just that.
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