Cleaning your Dashboard

When you begin to clean your car interior try to remove the excess dust first with a dry microfibre cloth because if you try to remove it with any other water based cleaning items you will find that you are simply spreading it around the surface of your dashboard, thus making it more difficult to remove. Also, vacuum the carpets so as not to create dust later when you have polished your dashboard, 2 simple steps that will make your job easier. If possible try to use a silicone free dashboard cleaner as some of the silicone based products can be very difficult to apply properly

One of the first things you should buy for your new car is a new set of car mats. They protect the carpet, not just from general wear and tear but they help to avoid ground in dirt and germs. The mats should be cleaned properly at regular intervals i.e it is ok to vacuum them but if they are rubber try to wash them with soap and water at least once a month or if they are carpet again try to use carpet cleaner at the same sort of intervals – if you use a scented cleaner it can act as an air freshener as it get deep into the carpet fibres.

When attempting to remove dog hairs from seats or carpet you must remember that they can go deep into the material. If you have vacuumed thouroghly it may look like the hairs are gone but 2 – 3 days later they can reappear as if by magic, this is because the hairs have burrowed deep into the fibres of the material, then the gentle massaging of the seats by our bodies in general use brings these deep set hairs to the surface, so you have to again deep clean and vacuum to try to release these. You may think, why bother with all this repeated hard work when you can quickly drop it in at your nearest car valeters and they will do it for you, well in my experience they will not spend endless time teasing the dog hairs out of your upholstery, so your car may return clean but will still have the thousands of hairs you hoped would be gone