Cleaning a Jane Powertrack and using a buggy board

[kikidee]

I have been using my Jane Powertrack for the last 2.5 years and I will soon be using it for a new baby. It has been very well used and is now quite grubby. Does anyone know if the pushchair fabric can be dry cleaned? The hood is also dirty due to leaking juice cups and rotting bananas being left in it and I wondered if anyone had successfully cleaned theirs up and what they used.
Also, has anyone recently fitted a buggy board to their Jane that they would recommend?
Thanks in advance.

I know that Jane has their own 'surfer' board out now, and that's the only one they'd recommend. think it's about thirty quid, though.
i managed to get banana out of our upholstery using a scrubbing brush and fairy liquid, then i gave the whole thing a 'perk up' with our steam cleaner. also, you could get a cosy-toes which might conceal muck on the interior fabric. hth

Thanks AlfredAitchcock. I will have a look for the surfer board and will clean up my hood with some fairy Liquid - the wonder solution! I don't have a steam cleaner but I think I could probably hire one - will look into that too.

Hi i took seats off and put in my washing machine they washed up lovely and i just used washing up liquid with a scrubbing brush for the hoods. Hope that helps

hey, if you can put them in the washing machine that's great. but for the record, i htink you can get steam cleaners for 25 quid these days.

Thanks for excellent suggestions. Bit too scared to put pushchair into washing machine but will definitely look into the steam cleaner as the carry cot bit could do with a scrub up as well. Surfer board isn't recommended for the Powertrack unfortunately so I am going to go back to the shop and ask what is recommended.

No, the surfer board s are for the new Slalom. I am using a Lascal 3G buggy board, the new one, and it works very well with the carrycot on the Powertack. Any buggyboard invalidates the warranty, but I suspect you are way beyond any warranty. I was really pleased to find the 3G fitted the 360 as so many people had said that there was no way a buggyboard would fit a 3 wheeler!!

kikidee - congratulations on new baby!

My DD was 2.9 when turfed out of Powertrack 360 for her baby brother nearly a year ago. We talked about it a lot, let her try friend's buggyboards and then I took her to choose the one she wanted from Lascal. Bought it in a Jane stockist as he said they were fine though did mention the warranty but like you we were well out of that by then!
Buggy board and Jane still going strong nearly 12 months later and now in 'pushchair mode' which works too. Best way we found was to move handle forward one notch when using buggy board then DD doesn't bang her forehead on the handle.
You do develop a walk that involves sticking your bum out (very elegant!) but I think that is true for all buggyboards.

Prepared to feel quite smug for getting so much use out of it, I do all the time

Thanks Louloubelle and tessasmum. Those Lascals are pricey aren't they?? £50 but at least I know that it will work well. Pram is now almost 3 years old so i think we will be out of the warranty period. Yes, I do feel smug that we still use it all the time! I have several friends who ditched their M&P travel systems or similar and replaced them with lightweight buggies within their babies' first year but my Jane is still going strong and should give us another few years of good service. I am looking forward to pushing a very light little baby in it though (without a toddler on the buggy board). I still love it and will be very pleased if I can smarten it up a bit.

Personally, Ive had our powertrack for the same amount of time as you, and used together with a volo for short journeys out. In the summer i led the seat bit in the bath along with the hood(curious-how do you get it in the washing machine because its got hard plasic inside it so it wont fit in mine?)and used washing powder and warm water and a bar of vanish soap(mine also had spillage stains in hood) and scrubbed it (not too hard) with a nailbrush, this brought it up very clean and I was even offered £100 for it 4 months ago!, I then took the frame out in the garden and washed down
Anougher idea once youve washed the pram, to make it a look a little newer for the new babe is new tyres

hth liz

didnt wash hood in washing machine,just seats!!!!!!