this carpet has me cornered

[beenen]

been trying to test my new equipment lately on some test vehicles and today was my carpet treatment test. Well it defiantly in my opinion did not work so I'm a little stumped.

here is the process I went through. The truck is a 1996 F150 with stains I don't know how long they have been sitting there.


- Vacuum

- Spray with OPC 3:1 and agitate it in with brush, let sit for a couple of mins

- Take the McColloch 1385 steamer with triangle attachment and no towel. Steam the carpets to loosen up dirt. Take a microfiber rag and whipe around after steam.

- Aztec hot rod hot water extractor on the carpets. Made multiple passes with the extractor with no difference.

- re-sprayed spots with FOLEX, agitate with brush, let sit, took the Aztec out again and with little results

- re-sprayed spots with full strength OPC, agitate, let sit, took the Aztec out with final results (see pic)


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After:










any suggestions? Is the too bad of a carpet to work on that it just will not come up at all?

[JMP]

Appears you have tried varies methods...you might want to try a mixture of lemon juice, white vinager and salt as a pretreatment...let that sit five minutes and hit it with the extractor...

[JMP]

And do a test spot first!!

[flatstick]

I would try the folex on the carpet first before any other chemicals. rub it in and let it dwell for a while. I have gotten many different stains out with it .

[Larry A]

Somethimes stains on gray carpeting will turn brown after there cleaned. I had a Volkswagen with brown spots on a gray carpet, and I just dyed them. I had a can of gray carpet dye from Technition Choice, and lucky it was the right shade of gray.

[Azure]

I've never tried the stuff, but would that Oxyclean stuff get that road grime stains out? They always show it being poured on carpet and it removes the stain etc.


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[brondondolon]

Somethimes stains on gray carpeting will turn brown after there cleaned. I had a Volkswagen with brown spots on a gray carpet, and I just dyed them. I had a can of gray carpet dye from Technition Choice, and lucky it was the right shade of gray.

I had a 88 jeep cherokee many moons ago with the same issue. Brown stains that wouldnt come out. Although back then I had zero idea what i was doing when it came to detailing as i was still using the dish soap and towel wash lol. I was 16 lol. But what i ended up doing is I bought a bottle of RIT fabric dye in black. Said mix a couple of oz per 5 gallons. I used the whole bottle in about half a gallon and went to town with a scrub brush essentially dipping it and scrubbing the dye in. Came out looking great. Had black carpet for about 2 bucks and 2 hours of work lol.

[Kengo123]

Go with a stronger dilution for the pretreatment, and let it dwell 20 minutes after agitating.

It looks like the dirt/stain came up and wasn't extracted all the way out. After extracting, buff it DRY with a towel really really well

[Firehouse Mike]

As I tell some customers, stains are just that...stained. I do have carpet dye I can do for additional cost, but most people understand that some stains are just there for good. Even in 19 year old truck carpet.

[beenen]

Appears you have tried varies methods...you might want to try a mixture of lemon juice, white vinager and salt as a pretreatment...let that sit five minutes and hit it with the extractor...

Go with a stronger dilution for the pretreatment, and let it dwell 20 minutes after agitating.

It looks like the dirt/stain came up and wasn't extracted all the way out. After extracting, buff it DRY with a towel really really well

I'll try these out tomorrow thanks everyone for the suggestions

As I tell some customers, stains are just that...stained. I do have carpet dye I can do for additional cost, but most people understand that some stains are just there for good. Even in 19 year old truck carpet.

Yea I feel like that's what I'm going to have to say if I get carpets like these