How do i get in between and under tracks? Pic
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jtford95
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If you have access to an air compressor, that would be the best. If not, a slim, long handle brush, or a screwdriver and a vacuum. It will take a little while.
Justins00ss
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APC, brush and a blowgun on a air hose.
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Long handled brush OR shop vac. Try the shop vac on blow. That`s how i dry my engine after a cleaning.
Stokdgs
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Anything long and thin from either side will help you pull it loose enough to either pick up or using a long, thin, crevice tool, vacuum it out..
I see these all the time and have always been able to remove all that stuff that fell there from in between the seat and the console..
Good Luck !
Dan F
I see these all the time and have always been able to remove all that stuff that fell there from in between the seat and the console..
Good Luck !
Dan F
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Metro Vac sells an extended version of the crevic tool that everyone owns.
ShaneB
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Agreed, compressed air would be best. Steam would be another option especially if there were sticky areas. Shop vac and screwdriver would work too. Lots of good suggestions here
Stokdgs
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EXPDetailing - Thanks for the tip - I have never seen a crevice tool that thin !
It looks like it should work fine; Im not sure about that hole on the side of it taking away suction from the bottom of the tool..
Perhaps it has a flap that closes it up when not needed ?
Can see how beneficial it would be though, getting flat on the floor/carpet to get stuff you cant get to with the nozzle end...
Here - Super Extendo? Detailing Crevice Tool | Metropolitan Vacuum Cleaner
Dan F
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Stokdgs- Yeah, when you want more suction out of one of those pick-ups I`d just tape off the other one.
Many small-orifice nozzles/adapters have those "bleed holes" to protect the vacuum`s motor from working too hard (by drawing through the little opening). You can block them to increase the suction if you don`t mind stressing the motor (never caused any problems for me, but of course YMMV).
Many small-orifice nozzles/adapters have those "bleed holes" to protect the vacuum`s motor from working too hard (by drawing through the little opening). You can block them to increase the suction if you don`t mind stressing the motor (never caused any problems for me, but of course YMMV).
Oldfordisbetter
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That is quite a unique tool.
512detail
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I hit them with steam then if that doesnt work
Add flathead screwdriver and push it out then more steam
Worked so far for me
I tru to get out the stuff that might melt and cause more problems first though
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Add flathead screwdriver and push it out then more steam
Worked so far for me
I tru to get out the stuff that might melt and cause more problems first though
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Accumulator
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Be careful with the steaming, lest it do what happened to my MPV, and more recently, the Tahoe. (Despite my having plenty of experience and having taken considerable care to be gentle- exact same process didn`t do damage before but then it did.)
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a) It bleached the interior plastic to white, as if I`d "worn through" the pigmented/gray colored layer. I wasn`t being really aggressive, was *less* aggressive than I`d been when I first bought it (the Tahoe, total POS I brought back to pretty-decent). It`s like I`d used up my safety margin during the previous cleanups or something. When I did this to the MPV, it was on the first pass of the first try on that panel and at the lower steam setting (no such problems on the panels I did before that one, even at the higher steam setting), like that one panel was an oddball case.
b) It melted the synthetic carpet in the MPV and the synthetic fabric on one of the Tahoe`s door panels. The MPV was simply my fault- more fragile (I`d say "cheap") carpet than I`d ever steamed before I guess, but the Tahoe still makes me wonder. Once again, I was being far more gentle than I`d been previously, I had really *steamed* that same piece when I first got it with no problems, have zero idea why it suffered damage this last time.
This "worked fine before, but not this time!" sort of permanent damage makes me a little leery, despite having steamed all sorts of stuff quite aggressively since back in the `80s, with zero problems 99.9% of the time. Becomes a Q of "how critical is that risky 0.1%?" Sure wouldn`t want to damage the S8 or the Jag...