My 25 cx30 has those so called vegan faux leather seats. They are a very light gray color (Greige per Mazda) so they show dirt a little quicker than most. I want to keep ahead of it before it begins to shows. What would be a good product to keep these clean? Mild soap and water? I would prefer spray on product (if there's a good one) as I'm getting lazier in old age.
Seat cleaner
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I have used diluted Super Clean on regular leather seats. Apparently car leather seats (possibly the faux leather) have a plastic coating on it. It worked really well. I saw some detailer on YouTube do it.
But, I do think dawn dish soap diluted 1:1 or 1:2 with water could work well and would be safe.
But, I do think dawn dish soap diluted 1:1 or 1:2 with water could work well and would be safe.
Like fake leather or fake suede?
Fake smooth leather, Looks and feels realistic with nice grain pattern and perforations.
I like Meguiars interior cleaner. Cleans well, decent smell, not too aggressive, not greasy or shiny. You're basically cleaning vinyl. You can also fill a bucket with warm water. Use 1 microfiber to wet/clean and other microfiber to dry. Rinse& ring out the wet rag often. You'll see how dirty the water gets.
Thanks for the suggestions. I just picked up some Meguiar's Gold Class Leather and Vinyl Cleaner. The CX30 has the vinyl/leatherette seats while my Mazda3 Carbon Edition has real leather so this product may kill two birds with one stone as they say. We shall see. Downside is that I still need to use/get a leather conditioner for the 3. Probably try a Meguiar's product as well. Nothing is easy anymore!
My wife is into cooking and cleaning channels and uses tide professional powder in a spray bottle to clean everything. I was vacuuming the car out and spilled my beer on the back floorboard and her solution worked so well I did the whole car with it. Outside of turtle wax glass and dash I don’t have to buy anything else anymore. Plus the tide does a great job on the laundry, while not cheap and it has to be ordered, it’s well worth it.
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The driver's seat in my 2015 Mazda is the same vinyl, and it's starting to peel really bad at only 12 years old. I always took care of the interior and am only just coming up on 100k miles now.
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Genuine Naugahyde Oil. It's like Mink Oil but extracted from renewable, humanely farmed, organic vinyl fat.
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