Cleaning Seat Belts ... I finally figured it out! (Page 2/2)
82-T/A [At Work] MAY 24, 02:14 PM

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Originally posted by cliffw:

How do you soak an installed seat belt ? Spray a soap solution on it and let it sit ?




No, you remove the entire seat belt assembly from the car at the three points it's mounted. You take the whole mechanism, pull the seat belt out fully extended, clamp it off or use zip ties like I did. Get a Home Depot / Hechingers (haha) / Harbor Freight bucket, fill it with soapy water, and put the entire seat belt in there, minus the mechanism... which you can have hanging off the side or supported on a cinderblock or something next to it... but you don't want that sitting in there.

Let it sit for a day or two.
cliffw MAY 25, 07:41 AM
Ah, hence your request on which seat belt bolt went where.

Perhaps you tried, I was thinking spraying on a cleaning solution and letting it set, maybe renewing the spray later, and then using a Green Machine to finish cleaning it.



The Green Machine is mean machine in cleaning smaller fabrics such as car seats.

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82-T/A [At Work] MAY 25, 09:41 AM

quote
Originally posted by cliffw:

Ah, hence your request on which seat belt bolt went where.

Perhaps you tried, I was thinking spraying on a cleaning solution and letting it set, maybe renewing the spray later, and then using a Green Machine to finish cleaning it.



The Green Machine is mean machine in cleaning smaller fabrics such as car seats.




I'm not saying it won't work... but I don't think you can really get it that clean. I had to hang the seat belt from a tree... my daughter held one side to stretch it out, and then I took turns using the pressure washer. It was the only thing that really made a dent in it. All that said, I tried it without soaking, and then with soaking. The one we didn't soak (which was the passenger one, and less dirty to start), simply didn't get clean enough with just the pressure washer. So, we soaked it again afterwards, and then pressure washed it, and it came out amazing.