Concourse Carpet For Your Car By C. Charles Hahn (Shiny Lil Detlr)
The most basic carpet cleaning consists of vacuuming, spot cleaning, and occasional shampooing. However, with just minimal extra effort, you can have that "concours look" for the carpets in your daily driven vehicle. This consists of 6 easy steps.
Time to Complete: 30 Minutes (Can be more depending on vehicle, this was the time to complete the cargo section on my '98 Chevrolet Blazer)
Ease of Completion: Easy
Availability of Tools: Very Accessible
Expense of Project: Very Inexpensive
Before we begin, make sure you have a carpet which has been recently shampooed (mine was 4 months ago), and that you have just spot cleaned, and vacuumed. Should look something like this:
This is the pre-detailed carpet (as you can see I had previously done a process on the carpet which partially remains), just like every daily driver would have.
For this project, you will need one very simple tool. You will need a brush with strong nylon bristles that can pick up nap on a carpet. For this task, I use this one I bought at Menard's:
Step 1
With your brush, begin brushing the carpet longwise going AWAY from you on every stroke. Like this:
When you have completed this step, go ahead and do the same thing widthwise across the carpet, making sure your strokes are
from the left to the right. Such as below:
Now your carpet should look something like this:
And you are ready for
Step 2.
Linear Mode
