Reality check!!!

MobileJay · 05-13-09, 08:01

I did this yesterday morning. She told me it,was bad, but hearing and seeing are two different animals. LOL Kids and dogs make a good mess. Sorry the pictures were with my phone. Oh it was an Odyssey

You will see in the pictures that the dash looks super greasy, it was just the picture. The product does not leave anything that greasy.
Process:
Vac
ZEP High Traffic Cleaner on the carpets
Folex on the stains
vac some more
Interior wiped down with ZEP Citrus Degreaser
Danase's interior dressing(I can't remember the name of it)
Woolite/water on leather
Z10

JollyGreenGiant · 05-14-09, 04:24

Looks great! I appreciate posts like this. I'm just a small operation and this is very typical to what I get on a regular basis. No exotics in my garage unfortunately. lol

Jakerooni · 05-14-09, 05:31

Great turn around on a nasty interior.. looks alot like the Mecedes 320 I'm doing right now.. This thing is beyond trashed. I bet the lady was blown away by the change.

jmkiang · 05-14-09, 06:39

Great work on the cup holder area. Those are always a b*tch to clean.

EisenHulk · 05-14-09, 06:53

Nice work, Jay!!!!

todd@bsaw · 05-14-09, 07:04

Those Odysseys are a total pain for interiors, so I can respect the reality check! You almost have to charge them double for shampooing for all those stupid floor mats Honda puts in there...

Last time I did one of those I just borrowed an industrial (home) carpet extractor from a friend and went to town. The little 4" attachment on my extractor just wasn't doing it!

Pats300zx · 05-14-09, 07:57

Nice work Jay. How do you like the Zep Carpet Cleaner??? I have a whole gallon and never seem to use it.

S2K2004 · 05-14-09, 08:07

Great job Jay. Its incredible how people can let their cars get that bad!

gle_helle · 05-14-09, 08:41

What concentration of Woolite to water do you use?

Scottwax · 05-14-09, 09:13

Excellent recovery!

I feel your pain. I did the Explorer from hell yesterday. Heavily stained carpets and leather, paint transfers galore, heavy bonded contaminants, etc...and a little over 5 hours to detail it. Defintiely no time for pictures! I started at 8:20 AM and finished it a minute before she had to leave at 1:30 PM.

Interior and claying took so long the outside only got one stepped with Poli-Seal after I removed the paint transfers by hand using an MF and #105. To top it off, the battery is obviously towards the end of its useful life because having the doors open and moving the front seats back and forth ran it down enough it wouldn't start when I was going to move it back a few feet and redress the tires (to ensure even coverage).

Had to jump it off my car and let it run the final 15 minutes I was working on it so my customer wouldn't be late to work (she is with the Dallas County Sherriff's department). What a day.

Mark77 · 05-14-09, 10:46

Nice job on that, but why does the 2nd row area have like 10 different pieces of mats? Looks very unpractical. To me rubber mats is the only way, just hose them off and the carpet underneath still looks good.

elmy311 · 05-14-09, 11:49

Great job! I'm the same way ...small shop, do cars like that all the time (actually just got finished doing the typical soccer mom volvo xc70 wagon yuck!) ...and Honda Cr-Vs are the same way with all those mats....and they have these stupid buttons that you have to snap back in place or else the mats scrunch all up....stupid stupid design!