Thought I'd share with everyone this pile of style Subaru Tribeca we worked on that was tore up from the floor up & beat up from the feet up. We do a ton of crappy cars, but this one was a bit dirtier than most. It didn't have to come out perfect and in fact it didn't, but I thought you'd get a kick out of the transformation we were able to salvage out of it. After checking out these preliminary pics, it's pretty obvious that this vehicle lived most of its life on a dirt road. In fact it looked like they hauled dirt inside of it from how much ground in dirt & sand that was trapped in the carpeting. Many Detailers wouldn't even want to (or know how to in fact) attempt to tackle a car this brutally dirty, yet we have no problem rolling up our sleeves and getting things done!
Here's how it looked when it came in:
It's 10,000% critical to not introduce ANY kind of wetness into this vehicle before trying to remove as much ground in soiling as possible 1st. (water + dirt = MUD). So instead of prepping this car in the wet bay like we do on most of our full details, we 1st pulled it into a detail bay to start working on getting as much ground in filth removed from the carpeting. We used a combo of 3 different types of Tornadors, compressed air, stiff brushes & vacuums to loosen up and remove the soiling that had been ground deep into the nap of the carpeting. It was so bad that while doing this there was a dust cloud surrounding this car! This recon would have been a cream puff if they would have invested in some floor mats before trashing it.
My shop Manager Ted suited up ready to go to battle:
Check out the transformation of the carpeting after just removing the ground in soiling. It was almost like all this dirt/sand acted like a insulator for the topical soiling.
After de-dirting the carpet, we 1st used our Mytee Lite II to remove even more soiling. Check out how much of a difference it made!
We then used a dedicated carpet shampoo (3D Carpet & Upholstery Shampoo) followed again by extraction. This netted some excellent results. (no, we didn't need to power wash this one) We then used 3D Orange Citrus Degreaser @ 5 to 1 on the rest of the interior. Basically spray > scrub > wipe > compressed air.
After doing the carpet, we started to pre-soak the engine, door jambs & body with 3D Orange Citrus Degreaser. We left it to marinate for about 10 minutes before blasting with our pressure washer.
Here's the mud that kept falling from the wheel wells as we power washed the exterior:
Not much could be done about the bleach damage although the soiling around it was just about gone...
Here's how it looked when it came in:
It's 10,000% critical to not introduce ANY kind of wetness into this vehicle before trying to remove as much ground in soiling as possible 1st. (water + dirt = MUD). So instead of prepping this car in the wet bay like we do on most of our full details, we 1st pulled it into a detail bay to start working on getting as much ground in filth removed from the carpeting. We used a combo of 3 different types of Tornadors, compressed air, stiff brushes & vacuums to loosen up and remove the soiling that had been ground deep into the nap of the carpeting. It was so bad that while doing this there was a dust cloud surrounding this car! This recon would have been a cream puff if they would have invested in some floor mats before trashing it.
My shop Manager Ted suited up ready to go to battle:
Check out the transformation of the carpeting after just removing the ground in soiling. It was almost like all this dirt/sand acted like a insulator for the topical soiling.
After de-dirting the carpet, we 1st used our Mytee Lite II to remove even more soiling. Check out how much of a difference it made!
We then used a dedicated carpet shampoo (3D Carpet & Upholstery Shampoo) followed again by extraction. This netted some excellent results. (no, we didn't need to power wash this one) We then used 3D Orange Citrus Degreaser @ 5 to 1 on the rest of the interior. Basically spray > scrub > wipe > compressed air.
After doing the carpet, we started to pre-soak the engine, door jambs & body with 3D Orange Citrus Degreaser. We left it to marinate for about 10 minutes before blasting with our pressure washer.
Here's the mud that kept falling from the wheel wells as we power washed the exterior:
Not much could be done about the bleach damage although the soiling around it was just about gone...
