Hi fellows, Few weeks ago a friend of mine with a Volvo V50 asked me to clean his fabric seats. I've cleaned using Megs APC & Karcher Puzzi 100 Super (injection / extraction vacuum). Yesterday, called me and told me that the airbag from driver seat has broke down. He was with the car the local volvo dealer and he told me that the airbag box from the seat has some rust, since I've cleaned the interior. What should I do for the future customers to avoid this thing happen? Thanks!
so because you cleaned it the airbag box in the seat got rusty? Might be a good idea to not use a ton of water on the seats in certain cars such as volvo's. Might be a good idea to also carry some sort of insurance just in case. I have personally never experienced a issue like this . . . . . . but you really just need a little mist of APC to clean most surfaces rather then over saturating it with water.
Another option is to use something like this to clean the seats without any water at all. I quite like Duragloss #451 Fabric and carpet cleaner. Duragloss #451, Duragloss FC (Fabric & Carpet Cleaner, Aerosol Foam) Check it out. It's what I have used with great results.
How long after you cleaned his seat did the car have to go into the shop? I don't think that the box holding the airbag would rust so quickly. I could be wrong, but I think there might have been a prior problem.
My guess is that it was a prior problem and coincidentally broke down since he had it to you. Unless his seats are mesh, there is no way you could use enough water to soak through the foam to the mechanical part of the seat. You'd have to let the hose run freely onto the seat to get it that wet.
What he said. It would be difficult to completely saturate all of the foam in order to reach the electronics
even if it did soak through, there is no way that any kind of plated or coated metal would rust that quickly. I seriously doubt volvo would use bare metal brackets for the airbag box it would most likely be zinc plated...something to protect it. I'd imagine it would take several weeks of salty water for that to happen.
Even if it were a bare metal bracket that was immersed in salt water for several weeks, it wouldn't rust through right away.
