Car Interior cleaning not only give good appearance but a good environment to sit. It gives a better vibe to our driving experience. Here we have come with some tips on how to clean car interior at home so that our overall car cleaning experience become easy and effortless.
Benefits of a clean interior of a car
There are many tips on how to clean car interior at home but we need to first understand the significance of a clean interior. The clean interior helps in
- Giving more comfortable ride especially for long trips.
- Keeping healthy environment for elders and kids.
- Keep away from environmental pollution.
- Removing bad smells from car and feels calm and thus improves efficiency.
- Creates more open spaces to sit when there is no litter.
- Keeping away outside attack from insects and specially rodents
- Clean surfaces helps in creating healthy air inside.
What is the best homemade solution to clean the inside of a car?
There are many solutions and products available to clean the interior of your car. These products basically clean your interior very well and also try to restore the inside materials like seats and other panels. But we have come here to help you out with home made solutions. These solutions are really at par with the market cleaning products and even do its work really well.
Solution 1: Here we have to take 2 ingredients and make a liquid solution. We will need spray bottle also for its use. Take some amount of Water and Citric acid both in equal quantity. Citric acid is available at chemist shop and its not expensive. Approximately 70-100ml of water and 70 gram of citric acid will make a good solution. We have taken more water to make it more dilute.
Solution 2: Here we also need two different ingredients one is Liquid Detergent and another is Baking Soda. Both are available at home. Mix both in equal quantity and it will be little sticky solution. Add little amount of water to make it more dilute.
Solution 3: Here we need to have 3 ingredients Water approx 400ml, Lizol (a liquid floor cleaner) and Baking soda 10 grams approx (a spoonfull). Now put water, 3 caps of Lizol and the baking soda into a spray bottle. Mix it well and your home made interior cleaner is ready.
How to clean car Interior Plastic
Here we have some steps using the above made solution to clean the car interior plastic.
- Take Solution 3 and using a bottle spray it on the plastic parts evenly.
- Take a soft coloring brush and clean the applied surface with not so much pressure.
- Now use two microfiber cloth and clean the surface with both.
- Now after cleaning we will see a shiny surface which looks like a new one.
- These steps will remove the dullness and restore natural shine of the plastic material.
- This solutions also works as a disinfectant so it will remove the germs and bacteria from inside.
- This solution can also be used to clean the seat covers.
- The older plastic part that has lost its color and become fade can be also restored using this solution.
How to clean car Interior Fabric
For Interior fabric cleaning and for cleaning leather seat cover we will do some steps using solution 1 and Solution 2 .
- First make both solutions in different containers. Fill the Solution 1 in a spray bottle and Solution 2 in a beaker.
- Now take a soft coloring brush and then first apply the solution 2 on the required surface.
- Now spray solution 1 on the same surface where we have applied solution 2. We will see foam starts forming when both solution are mixed.
- This is a home made foaming cleaner which extremely works well.
- Rub the foaming surface with a brush and keep the solution on the same for a while
- Now using microfiber cloth clean the same surface foam with hands.
- Use a different dry cloth for second round cleaning.
- These solutions are really best home made interior cleaner and make fabric part newer.
- These steps will also try to remove stains from the fabric part.
How to clean car Interior Roof
The above steps which are followed to clean Interior fabric will also be applied to clean the Interior Roof. We just need to keep in mind that we don’t have to use Brush for roof cleaning it will make lentils on the roof and can damage its fabric parts. We just have to clean it using microfiber cloth and only do rubbing in one direction from center to window areas. It will remove the stains if any around the grab handle areas.
What not to use to clean car interior?
There are many products for interior cleaning. Always try to check the feedback for the products first before buying. The above shared remedy has a proven results and works exceptionally well. We need not to use multiple products. These are home made and free of cost because the ingredients are easily available at home and at nearby stores. What not to use to clean car interior is
- Vaseline or any other Petroleum Jelly for that matter. Because it makes surface sticky and eventually attract more dust particles.
- Do not use any brush for cleaning roof or top part of the interior. It will create lentils and damage it.
- Do not use rough cloth because it will increase friction between the surface and the cloth and will create scratch marks.
- Never use water for cleaning interior specially where the electronic parts are exposed because it can damage them also.
- Do not use home made shampoo use only a good car shampoo because that will protect the car shine.