2k2blackWRX
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Well today I decided I would detail the interior of my mom's 97 chrysler sebring convertable.
I should have taken before and after pictures because WOW its a whole new car on the inside, I still have the paint to fix but it has been storm week here hehe.
Anyhow, her tan colored carpet had stains ranging from cofee spills to just plain old black stuff!! and her dash was so dusty and dirty I could barely look at it.
First thing I went after was the top of the dash, I used a little scrub brush with some suds of simple green to scrub all the dirt out. I followed that with a damp mf towel soaked in my diluted SG solution. After doing the top and drying it with a dry mf I used the other damn mf to do the rest of the vinyl and plastic parts in the car, the SG solution worked very well and cleaned all the deep dirt out of it and it was looking good after some scrubbing with a toothbrush in small spots and using my mf towel to scrub as well.
Some parts (her cupholder and little try thing to name) were so dirty and gunky from spills I had to use the toothbrush with sg on it to loosen up the gunk then use the SG dampened MF to wipe up. I ended up wiping up every part of vinyl and plastic witht he damn MF to clean it all.
Total time for that part was about an hour (lots of vinyl and lots of dirt)
The next thing I attacked was her carpets and floormats. The floormats were so thin and flimsy nothing could really be done about them unless I soaked them in a bathtub and scrubbed them because the edges of them has dirt embedded into it.
For the carpets I started by vacuming every inch of her car.
Because im just a novice I did not have any special cerpet shampoo (what should I use to shampoo the carpets using the sud method) I ended up spraying them with some left over spot cleaner I had from borrowing a friends steam cleaner, that was to loosed up the dirt in the stains.
After that I used some oxy clean ( yeah i know) mixed with water to scrub all the carpets using a carpet scrub brush. I really scrubbed them as hard as I could and then I used a damp terry to pick up the dirt I just agitated to the top.
After that I vacuumed all of her carpet to get some of the water from my oxy solution up and my next attack was with prestone carpet cleaner. I sprayed all the carpets down and scrubbed again then used a damp terry again and vacumed again.
After that I used the blower part of the vacuum to dry the carpets. WOW all that scrubbing payed off, what were black carpets turned out pretty good, some spots you couldnt even tell there was a stain I was proud of myself but wish I had a real carpet shampoo.
After drying I used my new bottle of vinylex and used it on all the plastic/vinyl parts, it turned out to look pretty damn good and I was impressed.
The last few things I did was attack her leather seats with some Lexol leather cleaner I just bought, I had never used it before and didn't have the conditioner. It made the leather on the seats softer and nicer looking.
The last thing I did was clean her windows with some stoners IG and I was finished.
Total time was about 2.5-3 hours over half of it was spent cleaning her carpets. I was very impressed with my work for it bieng my first time detailing another car than my new WRX which has had 0 stains in the carpets ect ect.
A few questions:
1. can anyone reccomend a good carpet shampoo, my dad wants his car done before thurs when he takes people out to lunch for a business meeting.
2. Whats the best way to apply lexol leather cleaner/conditioner
3. What should I charge my mom for all the work I did. She is my mom so I don't want to charge her alot but she did say she would pay me hehe. I am looking for a fair price.
Any suggestions tips and advice would be great!!
thanks
Bryan Mathews
I should have taken before and after pictures because WOW its a whole new car on the inside, I still have the paint to fix but it has been storm week here hehe.
Anyhow, her tan colored carpet had stains ranging from cofee spills to just plain old black stuff!! and her dash was so dusty and dirty I could barely look at it.
First thing I went after was the top of the dash, I used a little scrub brush with some suds of simple green to scrub all the dirt out. I followed that with a damp mf towel soaked in my diluted SG solution. After doing the top and drying it with a dry mf I used the other damn mf to do the rest of the vinyl and plastic parts in the car, the SG solution worked very well and cleaned all the deep dirt out of it and it was looking good after some scrubbing with a toothbrush in small spots and using my mf towel to scrub as well.
Some parts (her cupholder and little try thing to name) were so dirty and gunky from spills I had to use the toothbrush with sg on it to loosen up the gunk then use the SG dampened MF to wipe up. I ended up wiping up every part of vinyl and plastic witht he damn MF to clean it all.
Total time for that part was about an hour (lots of vinyl and lots of dirt)
The next thing I attacked was her carpets and floormats. The floormats were so thin and flimsy nothing could really be done about them unless I soaked them in a bathtub and scrubbed them because the edges of them has dirt embedded into it.
For the carpets I started by vacuming every inch of her car.
Because im just a novice I did not have any special cerpet shampoo (what should I use to shampoo the carpets using the sud method) I ended up spraying them with some left over spot cleaner I had from borrowing a friends steam cleaner, that was to loosed up the dirt in the stains.
After that I used some oxy clean ( yeah i know) mixed with water to scrub all the carpets using a carpet scrub brush. I really scrubbed them as hard as I could and then I used a damp terry to pick up the dirt I just agitated to the top.
After that I vacuumed all of her carpet to get some of the water from my oxy solution up and my next attack was with prestone carpet cleaner. I sprayed all the carpets down and scrubbed again then used a damp terry again and vacumed again.
After that I used the blower part of the vacuum to dry the carpets. WOW all that scrubbing payed off, what were black carpets turned out pretty good, some spots you couldnt even tell there was a stain I was proud of myself but wish I had a real carpet shampoo.
After drying I used my new bottle of vinylex and used it on all the plastic/vinyl parts, it turned out to look pretty damn good and I was impressed.
The last few things I did was attack her leather seats with some Lexol leather cleaner I just bought, I had never used it before and didn't have the conditioner. It made the leather on the seats softer and nicer looking.
The last thing I did was clean her windows with some stoners IG and I was finished.
Total time was about 2.5-3 hours over half of it was spent cleaning her carpets. I was very impressed with my work for it bieng my first time detailing another car than my new WRX which has had 0 stains in the carpets ect ect.
A few questions:
1. can anyone reccomend a good carpet shampoo, my dad wants his car done before thurs when he takes people out to lunch for a business meeting.
2. Whats the best way to apply lexol leather cleaner/conditioner
3. What should I charge my mom for all the work I did. She is my mom so I don't want to charge her alot but she did say she would pay me hehe. I am looking for a fair price.
Any suggestions tips and advice would be great!!
thanks
Bryan Mathews
