How to clean and detail a car interior, upholstery, leather, trims and dashboard

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Cleaning the dashboard and making it shine like new

​Use the cockpit spray to clean and maintain your car interior plastics. Proceed as follows for the cleaning and shining of your car interior:
  • Remove dust from dashboard, door panels and trims with a clean and wet cloth.
  • Apply an even and thin coat of trim spray, wait for a couple of minutes and gently wipe off your dash and door trims in order to remove excess product and suppress the glossy appearance.
  • Do not spray the steering wheel and the touchscreen, see the bottom of this page.
  • Avoid spraying leather, wood, painted and chrome plated items. Wipe off these immediately after you spray the car trim protector.
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Use the same spray and same cleaning method on the doors plastic trims:

How to clean car upholstery and seats fabric or simply remove stains

​Use a car fabric spray to clean your car seats.
You may visit our detailed stain removal pictorial.
  • Spray the product on the stains and let it foam.
  • Use a brush to remove the stain then wipe off the product with a wet cloth.
  • Wetten the whole seat not to let a mark appear once it dries.
You can use that same product to clean the car carpet or your car roof especially if you drive with the windows open. Make sure however to vacuum well the carpet / roof prior to applying the product or else you can make it worse and spend some hard time to remove the mix of dirt and foam.
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How to clean the car pillar plastic trims

​If your car pillar trims or plastic cover panels are dirty, simply use general cleaning wet wipes or baby wipes directly on the stains and let dry.
This works on any type of trim, hard plastic or fabric covered and whatever the type of wipes.
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Cleaning the steering wheel and touchscreen

Both are cleaned the same way but with a different product:
  • For cleaning the steering wheel, spray little surface cleaner on a damp cloth and clean the wheel thoroughly with force
  • For cleaning the touchscreen of your car, spray little isopropyl alcohol (70 degrees or more) on a dry cloth and wipe off the screen of your car entertainment system. Do not use force or apply pressure on the screen, just keep wiping it until clean.
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See also our other tutorials for car detailing: