My wife has stained the console and seat of her E46 325xi, (Beige Interior,) with what I believe is coffee. She's not sure if it's coffee or tea, but it's pretty dark, so I'm guessing coffee. It's also been on there for a while. On the console, it's on the part that wraps up to become the dash, so I guess that's vinyl. The seat is leather.
I've tried all sorts of stuff on this so far, all combined with lots of rubbing, all to no avail:
Lexol Leather cleaner
Armor-All Multi Purpose Cleaner
Fantastic
WD40
Ronsonol
Brake cleaner
Acetone, (I know that's a bit extreme, so I was pretty careful, and it was definitely taking color off the seat. Didn't make a dent on the stain on the console/dash.)
Is there some detailers' trick that might help me get this off?
Last edited by RacerX5; 07-16-2016 at 12:30 PM.
2014 328i XDrive
2011 335i M-Sport
2008 X5 4.8i Sport
2000 528i
Steam is the only thing that pops in my mind.
Well, I guess I should not have blamed my wife for this stain...I should blame the unbelievably crappy quality of the BMW rear view mirror. This evening, when I was changing the mirror glass that had leaked, I realized that the LCD glass was not just going bad..the fluid was leaking out. The plastic mirror surround had plenty of traces of this dark coffee-like fluid. And the timing of the stain corresponded to the self destruction of the mirror. Unfortunately, while changing it out, I got three drops of this dark brown chemical on a very nice shirt, and after immediately putting stain cleaner on the stain, and putting through the wash several times, it looks like the shirt is ruined. My favorite stain remover for grease and garage related stains is rubbing Gojo hand cleaner into the stain. Makes the item smell a bit like gasoline, but that goes away after a couple of washes. It helped on these stains, but did not take them out.
So the content of the stain is confirmed as the dark fluid that leaks out of the mirror. Whatever this stuff is, it's pretty nasty, and makes very difficult stains.
Last edited by RacerX5; 07-19-2016 at 11:40 PM.
2014 328i XDrive
2011 335i M-Sport
2008 X5 4.8i Sport
2000 528i
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