Interior resurrection

Mike Hoekstra

Mike Hoekstra

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Today’s interior resurrection on a family ride. Plenty of food, drink, pen, and marker stains from the seats to the headliner, and everything in between.
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Tell the truth, these are two different vehicles. :). That’s an incredible transformation. Can you share a little of what you used, especially for that marker?
 
dgage said:
Tell the truth, these are two different vehicles. :). That’s an incredible transformation. Can you share a little of what you used, especially for that marker?
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LOL. The cleaning products I used for the stained seats and headliner were Chemical Guys Lightning and Nonsense. I know CG gets a lot of flack, but those two products destroy stains. I've pulled set-in pet stains from white carpet that sat for years with the stuff. The hard surfaces like the door panels, door jambs, seat backs floor mats etc., I used Blackfire APC for the heavy lifting, and Pinnacle vinyl & leather cleaner for the rest. I topped off the vinyl with Pinnacle Black Label vinyl and leather coating. The customer picked it up after her evening shift and was very pleased. Particularly that I got the headliner clean. The heavy staining that didn't come out the first time, I used CG Nonsense with a steamer.
 
That was one nasty looking interior!!! Sad part is....give it a couple days, and your hard work will barely show!
 
Question

What was the very first tool or product you used?


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I never understand how people stain the drivers seat of a vehicle... IMO you pretty much have to be standing outside of the drivers door and leaning over the front seat eating lunch and somehow spill your lunch onto your drivers seat in order to create some of the messes we constantly see.. Or how in the world do people go about heavily staining the drivers seat? Idgi.
 
Spikey Mike said:
First tool - My eyes to assess everything. :D

Then - Vacuum, TORNADOR to blow residual from out of everywhere, and TORNADOR VELOCITY VAC
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You my good sir are a much better detailer than I.

Me? I think I would have started here,

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Kills germs and sanitizes at the same time. :D


Seriously - nice work.


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Wow, great work and transformation. However, you couldn't pay me enough to work on that roach.
 
Mike Phillips said:
You my good sir are a much better detailer than I.

Me? I think I would have started here,

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Kills germs and sanitizes at the same time. :D


Seriously - nice work.


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I just lost it!!! :laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing: Thank you for the compliment, and I highly doubt I'm a better detailer than yourself.
 
Mike Phillips said:
One of my Top 10 Tools. :props:





Another great tool.

What do you think of the "Wild Man Technique" I shared in the class? Where instead of trying to make smooth, uniform vacuuming passes you just go nuts with this thing.


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I used the "wildman technique" and it was effective. :laughing: There were other spots that required smooth uniform passes also.
 
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