Thank you my friend. I've been delighted to see how busy your shop is with the pics on FB that you've shown. Continued success to you!
+1 Very refreshing to see people keeping it real. We've all seen your work and know your ability to make paint Flawless. You're the man Richy. Learned a couple of things from you my short time here on AGO, so thank you and keep the posts comin!
Thanks very much! As long as there is paint to work with and the time to do it, there is a lot that can be done. Sometimes one or both is not there. Even so, I was trying to impart that at a 90% correction level, it looked
significantly better than before. Now, factor in the protection from the AC, and you've got a paint job that's going to look that good for a while.
Looks Great! Not sure which is more impressive, the interior or the exterior? Besides the DA brush what products did you use on the carpet? What products did you use on the interior?
Thanks! I have been really impressed with the cleaning combo of Folex (can be purchased by the gallon at HD in the area where they rent the carpet cleaning machines) in combination with the DA carpet cleaning brush. I have tried to find it here on AG (where I bought it) but I'll be damned if I can find it right now.
EDIT: Just got off the phone with Nick. The reason I couldn't find it is that they had it buried (IMO) under "Porter Cable and Accessories". OK, to my Canadian logic, that is not where I would have looked for it. But here is the link and I have suggested to Nick that they add an additional link to the "interior cleaning" section.
Porter Cable 7424 Carpet & Upholstery Brushes
BTW, I use the white one out of the 4 they have for sale. To give you an idea of how well this works, my father in law has an Impala that he spilled red wine on the tan carpet mat. It had been there for about a week. Using a liberal amount of Folex + the white DA brush + white terry towels, I was able to completely eliminate that stain! And quickly I might add.
So I used in addition to above, what I refer to as a knock-off AG pad. Not to be confused with AutoGeek, AG stands for AutoGlym. They used to sell a pad called the Interior cleaning pad. It works much better than it should just looking at it. You spray cleaner directly on it or the surface and agitate. It foams up the cleaner and really helps remove stains. AG no longer sells it but there were some knock off ones around that I also bought. They are just as good and in fact better b/c on 2 of them you can put your hand inside of it. PM me for who may (or may not) still sells them. I used Optimum Power Clean as the cleaner, cut 4:1. As good as the AG pad is, it did not remove all the stains. When they picked it up, there were a few that I did not want to be more aggressive on fearing for the removal of the trim dye. They insisted that I do something more, so with ample warning that any dye removal was their problem, not mine, I did what I consider the most aggressive way to remove a stain from plastic: Soak (and I mean soak) a magic eraser (I buy them in bulk from China) with OPC and have at it. Be very careful. It will remove more but you risk removing dye too. It did remove the rest of the stain here and they were satisfied. (No, it didn't remove any dye either).
For the last step, the plastic and seats were protected by UIGP, Ultima Interior Guard Protection or whatever it stands for. It is amazing stuff. It actually makes leather (real leather, not the fake stuff in this X3) feel softer. My customers love it!
Hope that helps.
Sorry for the late replies, my chest infection is getting worse.
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