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4x4 Gear QUICK TIP: clean headlining By Simon Ward-Hastelow Published: 30th Mar 2007 Original article: http://www.difflock.com/magazine/4x4_Gear/QUICK_TIP_clean_headlining.shtml

 1001  www.1001carpetcare.co.uk  Price: £3.49

The headlining in your vehicle often gets overlooked when it come to the (annual?) cleaning session. We had to fit a fairly grubby 2nd hand headlining to the Defender 130 as it was all we could find. But a quick squirt with 1001 got it looking as good as new.

When we got the Defender 130 back from Foleys it really looked the business with a new respray but the interior lets it down. The headlining was supposed to be off-white but ours was so far off-white it was bordering black!.



We looked at all kinds of so-called trim cleaning products but they all had silly prices to go with their outlandish claims. Step forward Mrs. Difflock with a blue squirt gun called 1001 stain remover "If it'll shift the oil stains you leave behind it'll clean the crud off that" she confidently predicted.

So rather than testing a discreet section that would be out of view if it all went terribly wrong I did the normal bloke thing of squirting a big dollop right in the middle of the headlining! rubbed it with a plastic bristled brush (I'll put it back in the kitchen later when she's not looking!) then wiped it clean with a kitchen towel.

I could instantly see that the raybans would be required!

Look in the photo below, I decided to do the standard TV-advert trick of only doing half to show the difference. I can honestly say that the end result really is as-good-as-new. And being as it was provided by Mrs. Difflock (an amateur witch and  flower-power hippy) it is totally environmentally friendly and leaves no harful residue (unlike a lot of other products) So you can happily lock your kids in the motor safe in the knowledge that they can lick the trim with no nasty side effects.

Get scrubbing . . .



PS: if you realy do need a convincing, it's made by the same people that make WD40!