Cleaning stained seats

[hrsfly]

The other day water leaked out of my nalgene bottle on to my passenger seat. I didn't realize it until I got home and saw the huge wet spot. I didn't mess with it as it was just water. Well the next morning I went out to my car and now there is a huge stain on the seat. It looks awful:mad: ! I don't understand why this happened as it was just water. How can I clean the seat? TIA!

[CoriBug]

I have grey cloth seats and got some water stains on them before I put seat covers on. Just like you, I was surprised that the water made such a bad stain. Then someone on here told me why. If the water isn't distilled(all minerals and any bad things taken out) it will cause a stain. That's why you should use distilled when you're using water to remove a stain. I think someone said grocery stores should have distilled water. A lot of bottled water has minerals added in so that's not a good idea either. When I had Daisy detailed last year, they were able to get all the stains.

Cori

[iScott]

Can you distill your own water by boiling it? Instead of having to buy it from the market.

[bugasm99]

you can, but at $1.99 a gallon, you may as well just buy it.

[Bef]

Boiling water doesn't actually distill it... you have to have a distillation apparatus, and condense and collect the water vapors in order to get distilled water... This leaves the minerals behind in the original container, while you collect the purified water on the other end.

I highly recommend going to the store. :P

[CoriBug]

That's what I was thinking too, Bef, because my Microbiology professor wouldn't let us use anything but the distilled water for our slides in lab. The boiling makes the water safe to drink because it kills nasty stuff like bacteria (girardia), but it can't remove the minerals such as fluoride.

Cori