any ideas on how to get it out of my seat? they melted and are in the fabric?

 

I just have to ask how you got candle wax on your seats. Cause the only thing I can picture is a romantic evening with the little lady, or that your truck smells and you couldn't find any febreeze.

 

Don't know how good of seat cover your talkin, but. If you don't wanta mess up the kitchen you could use a coleman camp stove or single burner on the BBQ grill or a turkey frier burner. I would try to get a good size pot of water boiling and dip the waxed area in the water. I would think the wax should soften and float out almost emmediatly for the most part with little to no staining visible.

Maybe rub it with a long handled brush to work it out if needed while submerged. Roll the fabric in a baseball bat shape with the dirty side out when you dip it so the wax will float away from the material. If your talking a big candle (lots of wax) One dip might get a lot off. Then drain dirty water and repeat the process. Work gloves might help from gettin splashed with hot water. Ouch! Good Luck...

 

Heat up an iron (clothes iron) put a brown paper bag over the wax and rub the iron over it until the wax lifts onto the bag... You might have to do this a few times to get all the wax off, then use a good upholstery cleaner to lift off the grease stain where the wax was.

 

I think the iron and paper bag might be the ticket. But if you have one of the little handheld steamcleaners it should serve the same purpose as the boiling water without the mess. If you've already scratched off as much as possible, it might just force the rest through the fabric onto the foam (out of sight).

Don't know about wax, but ice works real well for gum.

Dave

 

First hold an ice cube against the wax til it gets as cold as possible, then grab the fabric and bend it in half in multi directions to break wax into fragments,removing pieces that break up & loose. Continue to reapply ice cube followed by manipulation between fingers until no longer breaking away, then reapply ice cube but follow w/a fairly ridged nylon bristle brush until no more wax breaks away. Then use an iron on low w/a cotton terry towel over the wax, repositioning towel as section becomes wax & oil saturated.(used to own a dry cleaners)

 

I use that all the time in the house with wax on the carpet... stupid cat!

 

actually it's in a parts truck I bought-and the ex decided to throw a bunch of stuff she got at a yard sale-in it to store it-and the heat from the sun melted the candles-hoping to switch that seat with mine-much better shape-plus it has the lumbar support-

 

thanks for all the replies-I've used the iron trick myself on carpets-was hoping someone knew a better way-I wish it never had happened-but women will be women gonna be a long process-it's all down the backrest of the seats

 

Just to be sure u get the concept, the wax is drawn to the heat source & transfers to the cotton(100%) terrycloth in the process. But it's important to remove as much of the wax as possible by causing it to become brittle w/ice cube & break away from fabric pile first.

 

that is the problem-most of it has melted and ran into the fabric-truck was in the sun almost all summer-and we all know how hot they get inside-hey I'll give it a shot-thanks!

 

This is probably too late for the poster, but in the future if this should be something one comes across, here is an effective way to this.

You get a can of Dust off, the spray dusters, turn it upside down and freeze the said wax. Use a plastic or bone scraper with no edges to it and rub the area of wax. Repeat til you have gotten most of it out. There is also a freeze spray made for getting wax and gum out of carpet during commercial carpet cleaning. I worked in the carpet cleaning industry for several years and we used this stuff all the time. I dont know much about mechanic-ing but I can help here.

Best of luck.