Interior cleaning on a 1990`s Mercedes

[zckid]

Hello everyone!

One of my friends asked me to clean the interior of his car, his beauty, I’d say, a lovely Mercedes from the 1990’s. It was cleaned it in December last.





We were supposed to steam clean it. Very early the following day I started. I put on the steamer, vacuumed the whole interior, and did some scrubbing. And surprise, surprise. The steamer was leaking, no steam coming out and part of the car was wet already. I put my belief in Almighty that I might do it without the steamer. So I persevered.

The sunroof area



The headliner




A little 50-50






Almost done, will require a little more agitating




The pillars, same for others




What is removed…?



The arm rest




A little section cleaned to show the difference




The console area




A not so 50-50 at the top




Close-up: in action




Getting the original color




OMG!




More than 5 liters of juice: the headliner, arm rest and console area combined




More




The seats




Close-ups






Pure sand, from the white sandy beaches of our sunny island




From top to bottom
Cleaned, cleaning, not yet cleaned




From this




Restored to dirt-free original color






This is pure seat nectar :props:

[zckid]

Moving onto the carpets




The driver’s seat area








I thought I would be best to remove the carpet completely




And look




Cleaning every nook and cranny




The rear seats areas




Feeling happy & blessed



More






Finished






Hello




Still more to add to this collection




Doors not ignored









And from the always smiling vac




Benz smoothies




Not good to see… just to show dirt is not our friend but our intimate enemy




Before




Now




The boot lid




It was already dark, I had one more thing to do.


The console area scratches




Close-up



I thought it would be so cruel, so unfair to let this ride go with these. I polished it, +75% of the scratches were removed.

I only got the finished pics of the same 3 months later






and the beauty leaving




I was finishing with a



courtesy of the Mrs. :props:

Thanks for reading, your thoughts and comments are most welcome

Happy detailing weekend

cheers

Zaid

[Reddwarf]

Wow, that was one dirty interior! Yikes! Amazing when you see the dirty water buckets. You did a great job bringing it back to a nice clean ride. What products did you use? How did you polish the wood dash? I did own a Jag and I loved the wood dash but it had a really thick coating like plastic so you never actually could touch the wood.

[The Driver]

I hope you PAID for that one. GREAT recovery!

[zckid]

Wow, that was one dirty interior! Yikes! Amazing when you see the dirty water buckets. You did a great job bringing it back to a nice clean ride. What products did you use? How did you polish the wood dash? I did own a Jag and I loved the wood dash but it had a really thick coating like plastic so you never actually could touch the wood.

Thanks for your kind words buddy

Yes it was years and years of dirt and stains

Here are the tools



To be frank, very simple tools:

- A coat brush (can be used as a leather brush)
- a tooth brush
- some microfiber towels
- a soft detailing brush

- a bottle of Bilt Hamber surfex HD diluted 1: 15+ (same as Megs APC or Opt Power Clean)

- Hot water

- My dry Numatic vacuum (turned into a wet vac by removing the dust bag .... it was risky :iagree: ) it still works well thanks God.


For polishing the wood dash part

- Menz 203s
- Lake Country white hand held pad and a lot of elbow grease

[zckid]

I hope you PAID for that one. GREAT recovery!

the price was Full body pain

Thanks a lot buddy

[Old Pirate]

What a great save there, it had to be a pain in the a$$ to do but the reward shows your work!

[zckid]

What a great save there, it had to be a pain in the a$$ to do but the reward shows your work!

thanks a lot my friend. the result is simply a blessing from Almighty Above esp. as the steamer was out of use.