
Deep Cleaning
Hot extraction, cabin steam and proper drying, from AED 549 at your villa or tower. The van brings everything, and the cabin comes back honest.
What is a car deep cleaning and what does it cost in Dubai?
The car deep cleaning Dubai families book from Apex Core starts at AED 549 and is the heavy interior job: seats and carpets flushed with hot extraction, plastics and vents worked over with high-temperature steam, and every surface dried before handover. It takes 2-3 hours at your own address, the van supplies its own water and power, and the exact price for your car is agreed in writing on WhatsApp before the visit.
Everything soft and everything touched. The cabin is stripped of mats and rubbish, then vacuumed hard, including the seat rails and the seams where sand collects. Fabric seats and carpets get hot extraction. Leather gets its own chemistry rather than a soaking. Steam goes over plastics, vents, buckles and the crevices a cloth never reaches, headlining and door cards are cleaned to match, and the glass is finished from the inside. This is restoration work, which is exactly the line between it and the everyday interior valet: one maintains a decent cabin, the other brings a rough one back.
An extractor injects heated cleaning solution deep into the fibre, agitates it, and immediately pulls it back out along with everything it has dissolved. Think of it as rinsing a carpet the way you rinse a mop, except the machine controls how much moisture goes in and takes nearly all of it back. Surface shampooing makes fabric look clean while the grime stays resident in the foam below. Extraction empties the foam. The waste tank tells the story afterwards, and we will happily show you the colour of the water that came out of a seat that looked fine.
Beach sand, first and always: it sifts through fabric and gathers under the squab where no vacuum nozzle goes. Then the organic layer, spilled laban and karak, milk from a bottle that tipped over months ago, sweat worked into the driver's seat through every summer, food trodden into the rear carpet by small shoes. Vents hold fine grey dust that puffs out on full fan. The vent side of the job is described under AC cleaning. None of it is unusual and none of it survives the process, which is rather the point of booking one.
High-temperature steam does two jobs the extractor cannot. It sanitises hard surfaces without flooding them, which suits switchgear, vent slats, seat piping, buckles and the textured plastics that trap grime in their grain. And it loosens dried spills so they wipe away instead of smearing. Steam inside the cabin is precise work: short passes, the right distance, moisture wiped as it condenses. Used that way it cleans places that have never been clean since the car left the factory.
Set aside 2-3 hours. Extraction wants dwell time for the chemistry, steam wants patience, and drying cannot be skipped at the end, so a genuine deep clean simply does not fit into a lunch break. When you see the same job advertised at an hour, something on this list is being left in your seats. The upside of the honest version: it happens at your home while you get on with the day, and the WhatsApp quote states the expected window up front.
Because a damp cabin in Gulf humidity turns musty fast, and a musty smell after a clean is worse than the dirt was. Drying is a scheduled stage of the job, never an afterthought: moisture is extracted rather than left to evaporate, air is moved through the cabin, and the car is handed back with surfaces dry to the touch. Closing a wet interior and walking away is how cheap deep cleans manufacture their own complaints. We hand over a cabin you can use that evening.
Heat accelerates everything that happens inside a parked car. Spills bake into fibre, sunscreen transfers onto every surface an arm touches, and the cabin works as an oven that sets stains a cooler climate would let you blot away. Add school runs, desert weekends and a dog in the boot, and the interior ages faster than the paint does. A cabin that gets professionally emptied of all that on a sensible rhythm holds its value, its smell and its resale photos. One that never does gets described in listings as needs detailing, priced accordingly. What the same summer does to paint is covered in coating in summer.
AED 549 is the from-price for a standard sedan; a seven-seater with a third row is more fabric and more hours, so it lands higher. The full breakdown lives on the deep cleaning prices page. Frequent pairings: ozone treatment at AED 149 when a smell has a history, dedicated seat cleaning at AED 199 when leather needs conditioning as well as cleaning, and Fabric Seat Protection at AED 129 once everything is spotless. The rest of the menu is on the services page, and every line is priced in the same WhatsApp thread. Tesla and other EV cabins have their own notes under EV detailing.
| Zone | Method |
|---|---|
| Fabric seats and carpets | Hot extraction |
| Leather surfaces | Dedicated leather chemistry |
| Vents, plastics, buckles | High-temperature steam |
| Boot and mats | Vacuum plus extraction |
| Interior glass | Streak-free finish |
Keep exploring: steam explained.
Mats out, cabin emptied, every zone checked so the worst areas get the most time.
Hot extraction through fabric, steam across plastics and vents, leather treated separately.
Moisture pulled out, air moved through, surfaces dry to the touch before you sign off.
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Deep clean questions
Take out valuables and personal clutter if you can; it buys the machines more time on the actual cleaning. Mats, child seats and boot contents we handle as part of the job.
Most lift completely with heat and extraction. Dye transfer and old bleach marks are the honest exceptions, and we tell you which is which from photos before you book, never after.
No. Drying is a built-in stage, moisture is extracted rather than left behind, and the cabin is handed over dry to the touch and ready to use.
It removes the sources, which fixes most of them. Smoke and deep-set pet odour also need the AED 149 ozone treatment, and pairing the two in one visit is common.
Yes, because neither goes near the extractor. Leather gets its own products and pressure, delicate surfaces get steam at a respectful distance, and anything questionable is tested somewhere hidden first.
Easily. The van carries water and power for the whole job, the work fits the footprint of a parking bay, and wastewater leaves with us rather than across the car park floor.
When regular upkeep stops keeping up: seats that look tired a week after a wipe-down, a smell that returns, sand you can hear underfoot. Between those points, a lighter valet holds the line.
Hot extraction, steam and proper drying at your address, seven days a week until 10pm.