Best Car Carpet Extractors

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An extractor is a sprayer and a wet vacuum in one housing, and the vacuum half is what decides the result. Any machine can push solution into a carpet; the one worth owning lifts most of it back out, because water left behind is what causes the musty smell three days later and the pale rings on a seat bolster. Judge recovery first and treat spray pressure as secondary. Heated models keep the solution warm during a job rather than heating cold water from scratch, which helps on old traffic film, though filling the clean tank with hot tap water gets you most of the same benefit. Tank size sets the rhythm of the work: a small tank means repeated trips to a sink, and on a whole interior that matters more than an extra amp of motor. Hose and cord reach is the specification people discover too late, since you need to work a footwell and a headliner from outside the door, so add up the hose length and the power lead before buying, and note that cordless units trade that reach for a runtime measured in minutes. Look at the hand tool width, because a wide tool skips over the contours of a footwell while a narrow clear head lets you see when the water stops running dirty.