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    Re: Cleaning smoke damaged headliner

    Had the same issue, a client whose wife was a heavy smoker. Sadly the most soiled section of the head-liner was directly over her drivers seat.
    Interior Gal (the wife, who is IICRC certified) grabbed her favorite tool... The Tornador, Pinnacle APC in a 10:1 solution, slight mix of air/product.
    She taped off, used the Tornador and then quickly switched to "air" to dry while tamping with a mf cloth. The results were amazing:



    Correct, you don't want to saturate, as the material will be left with stains, and you don't want to extract or vacuum because you'll rip the headliner off the ceiling.

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    Re: Cleaning smoke damaged headliner

    Quote Originally Posted by Calendyr View Post
    Ok, need some advice here.

    Client called me this week to clean the inside of his car. Says his wife smokes in the car and he wants me to clean the headliner that has tuned yellow from the smoke.

    So I quoted him 1 extra hour for that perticular issue and I am doing the car next week.

    Now. I have never had a car that has this issue. So I watched a few videos to see if I could get some tips but everyone suggests different things and I am not sure how to go about it.

    So many are saying not to get the headliner wet because the glue could fail and that would be a major problem. Then some other videos people are using tornadors and hot water extractors on the headlner to get it clean.

    So what are you guys doing in this situation? Here is how I was planning to attack this, please let me know what you think:

    1. Spray a degreaser on the fabric, I was thinking either Meguiar's super degreaser 4:1 or Super Clean 4:1
    2. Wipe lightly with detail brush to agitate the product
    3. Wipe off with a microfiber towel
    4. Steam the whole ceiling

    I am not sure if that will be enough to remove the yellowing.

    As a bacteria fighting method, after steaming I was planning on using an enzyme odor fighting product.

    So would you go more agressive, how would you go about it?
    I would odor bomb the interior after a good cleaning.Wetting the headliner may make the odor worse.

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    Re: Cleaning smoke damaged headliner

    Zapper smoke eliminator not cheap but it works.

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    Re: Cleaning smoke damaged headliner

    Be SUPER careful about the amount of moisture being applied to the headliner. A lot of them are held up with cheap adhesives and once they get wet they will sag.

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    Re: Cleaning smoke damaged headliner

    I always do a good thorough vacuum with a brush to dirty headliners first. Try to remove as much as possible to see what you're left with and then don't saturate it with anything wet like garyg said. Any moist cleaning I do is then fully extracted and dried with towels to leave it as dry as possible.

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