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My car is 18 months and 9K miles old, but I do use it for towing my race car and so it probably gets a bit dirtier than some. Although my seatbelt wasn't 'dirty', I have the silver GTS belts and there were a couple of areas where the belt wasn't that clean, either where I grab it to put it on/off, or where it had rubbed against clothing and there had been some colour transfer. And I don't like dirt!

I watched a few videos online but in the end I did the following:

- Pulled the seatbelt full out, lifted the buckle up to the top and then used a clip to hold the seatbelt out with the buckle at the top.
- Unclipped the seatbelt at the bottom on the seat, so now I had a free length of seatbelt.
- Squirted both sides of the belt with all purpose cleaner - I started off using a diluted solution but that didn't get me very far so I changed to neat APC.
- Rubbed both sides of the belt with a scrubbing brush.
- Jetwashed both sides of the belt. When jetwashing you can really see the dirt coming out and the colour changing.
- Left the belt extended in the car to dry overnight.
- Clipped the belt back on the seat and removed the retaining clip holding the belt out.

Job done!

Well there’s a good reason to stick with black seatbelts if anyone needed one! Mine have never looked dirty

Swarfega and water ..... for you next time not the seat belts.

Yes Col, but there isn’t always the opportunity to do so. To be honest, most people would have said that the belts were clean - I’m just a clean freak.