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Welcome back to another episode of Stauffer garage guys
Today's detail is probably going to be one of the most fun details I've ever done. It is a 1999
Chevy Suburban with a diesel engine, which that's just cool
I'm super excited for this detail, especially because this is my wife's grandfather. So my grandfather in-law he is also Vietnam veteran
I love giving back to veterans as well to kind of pay back for their service that they did for our country
let's go and dive right into it and let me show you what it looks like before and if you're interested in any of the
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So the first step is get everything out of the vehicle itself
This is usually entailing getting anything out of cupholders anything out of rear cargo mat
Anything underneath the seats and when you do remove your floor mats from any vehicle that you're working on make sure you do so slowly
And do try to fold it up
So that way you're not dropping that dirt that's contained in those mats onto the floor and it just kind of makes your job easier
When you go to vacuum
All right, so now I have everything pulled out of the trunk
You kind of get a better idea of the depth of the stain here
Which I'm hoping comes out pretty easily
Some of this stuff on here will be a little bit more interesting that I'm going to try to use a steam cleaner on
at least for some of these stains in the carpet and just try to
Lightly brush it with some spray and then brush it itself and then try to soak it up
So that way you're not damaging this felt because this is just glued on
Just like your headliner is now that the spare tire is out as well
you can kind of see there's just a lot of the staining that I would have missed if I never pulled out that is just
A nice extra touch to get to a lot of this dirt that's there and then inside these brackets we'll get all these cleaned out
and all vacuumed out but then what I'm going to do is I'm actually just gonna take the pressure washer and pressure wash these I
Think it'll be a little bit quicker of a job
And then if I do these first it gives it time to dry and then on this spare tire cover
I'm just gonna vacuum it and maybe spot treat if there's a few different areas
But kind of just clean it up in general outside of the car and let these dry after I'm get done brush washing
So for the floor mats
the first step that I did was just pressure wash and try to rinse off as much dirt as
Possible the driver side floor mat was obviously the one with the most amount of dirt and I did get quite a bit out
But then I had to go to the next step which included using my all-purpose cleaner
And then I started to use a more direct formula too specific for carpet extraction and some of the deeper and harder stains in this
case the driver side floor mat actually
Contained diesel fuel oil and a lot of different chemicals and substances that are not typical for floor mats
So that's why I did spend more time on that one in particular and I was able to get all of it out
Now that the carpets are clean and extracted
I have those hanging up to dry for the remaining of the detail
And that was one of the big reasons why I did them first because I was going to be doing them a little bit more
Aggressively and essentially soaking them as much as possible to get all that dirt out
I wanted to make sure that there was time for them to dry before the end of the detail
So the next step that I did was actually cleaning all of the different door jams within the vehicle itself
so by using my brush and the steam cleaner
I was able to remove all grease and dirt that was caked into all the door jams
Since this car had been cleaned but it wasn't deep cleaned in a long period of time
I used the steam cleaner on all the plastic panels along with the windows themselves to remove any of the oily grease that kind of
accumulates over time on those surfaces
In
The past I have always done the door jambs as a part of my exterior cleans
But since I've been doing more interior cleans lately
I've realized that the door jams are an integral part of an interior clean itself
It kind of pulls the whole package together when you present the car to the customer
Now that all the door jams are clean the next step in the process is to actually vacuum all of the carpet
I like to do vacuuming at this stage of the detail just to get the majority of the dirt and leaves and debris out of
The vehicle as possible, especially when you start cleaning the door jams or start wiping down plastic panels
You don't want to introduce any dirt that could have been just vacuumed up at this point of the detail
One thing you could also do to ensure that you don't bring any additional and debris into the vehicle after you vacuumed is to wear
Socks and just take your shoes off as you get in and out of the vehicle
It does help with minimizing some of that cross contamination
So now when it comes to cleaning the dashboard
I'm just using my all-purpose cleaner diluted twenty to one that I talked about earlier and my detailing brushes to
Get between all the different cracks and crevices of the dashboard itself to clean out those panels and clean out that dirt
Nobody else can take your place. I'll never want somebody
One thing when you're cleaning the vehicle there's any parts that do come out of the car
Make sure you kind of check underneath them in this case when I was cleaning the glovebox area
I did find that when the cup holder is moved
There was a lot of different trash and stuff that was accumulated underneath that surface
So granted the customer won't see that but as a detailer
Those are the kind of things that you look for to complete the job and just kind of elevate your whole process
Now the interior has been clean with my all-purpose cleaner
I am now following up with the Chemical Guys silk and shine to essentially coat and protect the interior surface
This is what gives it that shine and luster that you're kind of looking for of a brand new vehicle
So for the seats I am using the Lexx all products that I had talked about earlier
the first step is to use the Lexile cleaner and this is just putting some onto a clean microfiber towel and
Agitating it on the surface itself
once you have cleaned the surface with the Lexile cleaner you then just want to use a damp microfiber towel to remove any product that
Is left on the surface
So once you have the seats clean grab a new microfiber towel in the leather conditioner
to then coat the surface and leave it on for about five to ten minutes is what I
Standardly do and then wipe it off with a clean microfiber towel
So for the windows I'm using invisible glass
and one thing to remember is
to make sure you roll down the window after you've done the main part of the surface to get that top leading edge that you
Would typically miss if you didn't do so
So the last step of the detail is to put the floor mats back in put in the spare tire and the spare tire cover
That had removed earlier
So now that the detail is complete it is now time to show the owner at the end results
Doesn't it it came out good I'm out great. Yes
Everything smells smells like a brand new vehicle
all the seats are conditioned and cleaned - so they're all they should be nice and soft now - and I got a lot of
the stains out
And all this out - so you're good to go Wow
You're welcome. Yeah, it turned out real nice it was fun to do
Yeah, I forgot what I used to be like to have buttons that go
in and out like this, they don't make them like that anymore Oh
Make sure those are all Center video they don't make them like that anymore. It was fun. Yeah, thanks. You're welcome. Enjoy it
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