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Hi guys,

I washed my rear seats (coupe r33) (dont ask) and in the bath tub and now they are really moist inside, its a pain to dry them out... my brother said to take it to panel beaters and put the seats into the oven they have... is this a good idea or any oher way to dry them out?

I was offered to buy second hair s2 rear seats for 100 bucks +freight. what would you guys do?

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I would just use a hair dryer or just leave them out in the sun depending on how the weathers like. Not sure if I'll go out and buy a new set just yet. How long has it been since you gave them a bath?

hairdryer and lotsa towels

towels actually absorb water (their moleculer make-up is such that they 'suck up' water - not just hold water in-between the fibres)

so bung lotsa towels all over it and let them try to soak up some water, then hit it with the hairdryer for a long time

the real question is why did you wash your car seats in the bathtub. and what kind of stains were you trying to remove. jb.gif

Cat pee, the box where I had my cat tipped on the side and the pee trickled onto the seat... bad smell... tried many things to get it out, didnt work, until I got carried away with baking soda... that removed the smell but the baking soda has truelly left its mark on the seats... Hence why they needed a wash.

Yeah get a room as hot as you can and leave it in there. You can even buy one of those moisture trap things, like a little plastic bucket filled with silica crystals that you buy at Woolies or whatever and leave that under the seat while it dries to draw out moisture.

But damn, cat pee, for 100 bucks id just buy the new seats instead of having a faint odour return on warm days :ninja:

any osmosis or capillary action is going to take forever to dry the seats. you're better off pointing a heater at them and squeezing the seat every few minutes. that should at least push some of the water to the outer layers where the heater can dry it, then squeeze again and repeat.

it's going to take a long time to dry the seats out completely though.

Did you end up getting the smell out in the end? Or did you just purchase new seats because you got sick of waiting? $65 is cheap.

The smell is out although one part of the seats smells rather damp... dont know if it will come out in time.

I got the replacement seats because to me it seemed too long to wait and I dont want to risk missing out on cheap S2 seats... there are many S1 seats but not that many s2s...

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