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Dave KG · 08-23-06, 01:39

Bryan then first hoovered the carpets and then used the extractor to thoroughly clean them. The front carpet before:

and the front carpet just after, still looking damp but came up well once dried:

The chrome was then polished with Brilliant Chrome and Hot Area polish, and the aluminium with Brilliant #2. The glass was polished with Autoglym Glass polish. This wind deflector was stored in the car cupbaord, and was put up for cleaning as described above:

The carpets were then refitted, leather given a wipe with a damp cloth and will be conditioned as a demonstration of proper care techniques on Friday with the owner. We did not want to take any chemicals to the leather as it was original and 84 years old, so not colour fast. The owner had tried Cillit Bang on it...

And bleached a section, so we decided to just give it a gentle wipe and will condition it to preserve the leather. In order to resotre the colour to the Cillit Banged area, it will need professionally dyed, so we though we would leave this well alone.

The afters:

08-23-06, 01:39	#13 (permalink)
Dave KG Flying Scotsman Dave KG is offline Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Dundee, Bonnie Scotland Posts: 998	Bryan then first hoovered the carpets and then used the extractor to thoroughly clean them. The front carpet before: and the front carpet just after, still looking damp but came up well once dried: The chrome was then polished with Brilliant Chrome and Hot Area polish, and the aluminium with Brilliant #2. The glass was polished with Autoglym Glass polish. This wind deflector was stored in the car cupbaord, and was put up for cleaning as described above: The carpets were then refitted, leather given a wipe with a damp cloth and will be conditioned as a demonstration of proper care techniques on Friday with the owner. We did not want to take any chemicals to the leather as it was original and 84 years old, so not colour fast. The owner had tried Cillit Bang on it... And bleached a section, so we decided to just give it a gentle wipe and will condition it to preserve the leather. In order to resotre the colour to the Cillit Banged area, it will need professionally dyed, so we though we would leave this well alone. The afters: