Gee it's like a new van
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Welcome back to another episode of Stauffer garage
Today's video is probably going to be the most
dirtiest vehicle and the most
challenging vehicle I've ever done. I'm gonna learn a lot and I'm hoping you guys will learn a lot too.
So make sure you guys hit the subscribe button, below turn on notifications for any new videos that come out because
I'm gonna start doing more videos like this of cars that need some serious help. So without further ado
Let me show you what the car looks like before so
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As you guys can see this is going to be quite the project this car is a landscaping truck
so it's getting dirt thrown in all the time plants pulled in and out and
Really cars like this and trucks like this don't get detailed as often because they're just they're workhorses, right?
But that doesn't mean that we can't clean it up and that we can't make this thing look
Ten times better than it does and bring it closer to back to new. There are some components like there are no floor mats
So I have no idea how this is going to turn out. I got my steam cleaner
I got my extractor through my wet vac.
I got everything I have in terms of products that I can do to do the best I can
But I have no idea how it's going to turn out
so make sure you guys stick around to see how this whole video turns out because I I really have no idea if I maybe
I'll pull this one off or not
I do know that I'm gonna be able to make this ten times better than it is now
so after I pull everything out of the car, we're gonna roll straight into
Vacuuming and getting the big stuff out before we get the extractor out or anything like that
And if you want to know where I need the products or tools that I use in this video are found make sure you check
out the link in the description box below
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And to the owners credit
I asked him to leave the car like this instead of doing any sort of prep whatsoever
Because I thought it would be make for a better video. Plus it just allows for
Just a little bit more unknown
you never know what you're gonna find and also just makes it a little bit more of an
Intense detail and more of a challenge for myself
So now that the back is cleaned up what I'm gonna go ahead and do is vacuum this portion out and then we'll move up
Front and then go ahead and pull everything out of there as well
But for right now, I'm gonna go ahead and try to get all the big stuff out of the back first
I'm gonna say one thing real quick. This is one of those details that
Aren't the most glamorous. It's not a Lamborghini and hashtag. I want to see in. The comments below is work trucks need love, too
That's the hashtag that I want to see in the comments below because they do they deserve love till everybody does
including this truck
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So if you can remove any of the seats in the car whether it's the front middle of back
whatever it ends up being if you can pull those out it will make your job ten times easier when it comes to vacuuming and
Getting access to areas that you typically wouldn't be able to otherwise
All right, so even just vacuuming it out we are at least making progress
I mean, it looks halfway decent now
right We got some mold and some things here that the steam cleaner is
Definitely gonna be doing but the actual pretreat when I spray that down that'll help get a lot of this stuff out and get everything
Ready for extraction. I got it now move up to the front of the car, which is a whole different story
It's got a lot of stuff that I got to pull out first
Pull it out and vacuum it and then I'm gonna be busting out my Wagner steam cleaner
Which I've used once before on a car and it did an amazing job
And I know that on
Everything in this car including the carpet to the panels to the windows the steam cleaner will come in handy and I'm gonna show you
Guys exactly why and how good of a job it does
I will leave a link to the drag nerd one that I use in particular cost me like a hundred bucks
It's great for the hobbyist. It's nothing crazy. It's not like a commercial
Super powered machine for the average enthusiast like myself and showing you guys tutorials or if you use it around your house
comes in handy
Let's get the rest of this cleaned out and then we can go ahead and get into
The actual steam cleaning in the majority of this detail
So the ability to remove the center console proved to be priceless to be honest because the amount of stuff that was found in these
Cupholders was insane a lot of it had been caked in there a lot of it had been melted
I found a ton of melted crayons. It was completely worth it
I have a steam cleaner in this position because the crayons were so melted and everything in there was so gunky that the heat and
The water and the steam just truly helped release it from the surface and allow me to get it completely cleaned
Which you will see in the end results
So while the steam cleaner is heating up what I'm going to do is this is my all-purpose cleaner
This is a 303 aerospace cleaner and half water
so 50-50 mix and
We'll go to start pre treating and kind of giving to some initial scrubbing in while the steam cleaner hits up
So that way we can finish up that front dash panel before we put it back in
All right, I've just kind of sprayed the area first I'm gonna use this other brush as well this one works
Okay, but you're extracting the same time
I kind of want to let this sit for a minute and agitate it and then I'll use this to extract it
It is now time to use my new favorite tool by far
I think the one tool that I wish I bought even sooner when I started doing
Detailing I've watched videos I've seen ammo NYC talk about it
I've seen all of these guys that do detailing videos talk about steam cleaners, and I never truly understood the
Magnitude of how important of a tool it. Is this tool
Changed everything for me and I highly recommend that if you are detailing even on the side if you're doing it as a hobby even
If you're around your house
you can use this to clean tile you can use it to clean a ton of different things that you'll find uses for and
Like I mentioned this will be in the description box. I am not affiliated. I am not sponsored by any means
I am just trying to share my personal opinion of a product that I have truly fallen in love with that
I know that you guys would appreciate
For me the steam cleaner came in particularly handy when it came to getting the stuff that was caked into the cup holders and melted
Away, it just needed to be wiped off at that point and with a couple different passes
I was able to get everything removed and restore the entire console back to new
You can also use the steam cleaner to remove stains on plastic panels, which I'm doing here
just take a rag and wrap it around the end of your steam cleaner and you can use visit on your seats or carpet or
fabrics as well
So it's not as abrasive as many uses for the steam cleaner that I've found that come in handy and I also use it here
on the brackets to remove the mould and the different grime that had built up that had solidified on to them and it also
disinfects the area as well
This black plastic panel had these grooves across the top of that made it kind of tricky with a brush to get all the dirt
out of but with the steam cleaner kind of just blasted it all out and made it really easy just to wipe up to get
It completely clean. So for these door sills, they're actually contained outside of the vehicle
so I soaked them pretty deeply with on one cleaner and then I use my brush to agitate them and then wipe it up or
In some cases you'll see I actually use the garden hose just to kind of rinse it out
Now if you guys want to see a more in depth cloth seat cleaning video be on the lookout for my video come in next
Week and I'll go through the process that I'd use to get out stains and get out any dirt. That is
Collected in any cloth seat these ones in particular had some pretty deep stains
So I'll be sure to make the video more
In-depth kind of explaining the different processes that I use to get seats looking completely clean and looking brand new again
So at this point in the detail, I'm about six hours in and I'm working on the front dash and front door panels
And I'm just using my all-purpose cleaner, which is 50/50 mix to scrub down the panels get that dirt
That's kind of collected on the armrest and inside the different door panels and do it from little cubbies
and this is a pretty important step that you don't want to miss out on because you're trying to clean the panel so that way
When you use your top coat protectant
You have a surface to bind to and you want to make sure there's no residual dirt
Showing on the surface when you put your top coat on
So for the dashboard I have different types of detailing brushes of different sizes and different stiffnesses
and then I'm using my all-in-one cleaner that I talked about earlier that is a 50/50 mix and then I'm using invisible glass which is
Probably one of the best detailing glasses that I've ever used
One area not to neglect is the area underneath the steering well there's that panel there
That's essentially protecting all the electronics but it is something that you'll see every time you get in and out of the car and also
When you open up the doors themselves on the side of the dashboard
Our panels to that getting pretty dirty that if you clean it just allows it to be more aesthetically pleasing when you get in out
Of the vehicle and also the customer will appreciate it when they receive the vehicle after the detail
The area between the dashboard in the windshield is one of the hardest areas to get to but it's easiest if you
Face the rear of the car and you reach back with an underhand motion in your microfiber towel
It allows you to get into that area as easily as possible
So the driver footwell proved to be the dirtiest part of the carpet and I used several pre training methods
I used the carpet cleaner several time and then I had to go to an extreme of using the garden hose and my shop vac
To remove as much dirt that was caked into that fiber as possible
So for my interior topcoat that I'm using on all the plastic panels I am using the Chemical Guys silk shine dressing
I've in the past used 303 aerospace protectant
But recently I've made the changeover to Chemical Guys products and I will say that it dries clear it dries smooth
It doesn't have that glossy greasy feel and some products do it's very similar to how 303 aerospace works
but I feel like it goes on and spreads more evenly than 303 aerospace does so I'm definitely
Changing over to Chemical Guys for this product in particular and if you guys want to pick them up
Like I mentioned all the links to all the products I used in this video are in the description box below
And this is a shameless plug for Larry at Cedarbrook Landscaping's who let me borrow his van to do this detail
I saw that his car needed to be cleaned and it was an opportunity for me to become a better
detailer and also for me to show you guys different methods and processes that I use to take a car that was
Extremely dirty to something that looks 10 times different and looks practically brand new by the end of this video
So if you are in, Ohio
And you are looking for landscaping products or looking for somebody to help you with plants?
definitely go check him out and you'll see his reaction at the end of the video how appreciative and how blown away at the
transformation he was
All right, so the detail is done I'm heading to go drop off the car at the owners facility get his reactions I
Think yeah
Gee, it's like a new van like if this came off
Like the carpet was a different story. Oh my gosh
What I did the best I could Harley has never been this clean before never never since I bought let's cook
Different
Italy it smells good now, it doesn't smell like dirt anymore