How to Clean Car Seats
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Spray-on Scotchguard is the greatest thing known to man. If you spray your cloth car seats with it, nothing you spill on the seats will make a stain. You can just wipe the spill up and it’s gone.
Don’t do this on a new car, or one with leather seats. But if you have older vinyl seats, regular household wet cleaning wipes work just as well for cleaning the seats as the expensive car-cleaning wipes do. And they also kill germs.
Clean up spots, stains and spills with regular carpet and upholsery spot cleaner - I like the foaming kind with the little plastic brush attached to the can. Once you’ve treated the spots, vacuum the seats thoroughly using the hose attachment on your house vacuum. You can also sprinkle carpet powder on the seats before vacuuming to make the car smell better.
If your kids make sticky candy messes that harden in the back seat or in the floorboard or on the mats in your car, you can get the hardened candy off with foaming bathroom cleaner. The cleaner might leave a spot on the seat, but if you’re letting the kids have food back there you probably aren’t too worried about the seats anyway.
It’s much easier than trying to drag your household vacuum cleaner outside. The car wash will always have a coin-operated vacuum someplace outside, very cheap to use and saves you a lot of aggravation. Watch out, though, because car wash vacuums have really strong suction, they can suck up ANYTHING. And once it goes down the hose, you aren’t getting it back.