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2008 Chevy Suburban LTZ, 87k miles.
Interior needed some some major help and the exterior was just given a wash/seal.
The truck is a beat up POS. the body is rusting, there are several large dents, long scratches, buffer swirls and holograms, the plastic in the wells is peeling, the tires are bald etc. it has 87k miles in its short two year life.
The interior was just as bad, all of the carpet was extremly stained, the leather and vinyl was loaded with dirt and grime, some of the plastic parts were discolored, etc. It was a mess.
I wanted to get the thing done and out of my garage, so pictures are not the greatest but I did get the key points.
Some befores of the exterior:
I started off by washing the wheels, tires, and wells and running boards with Deep Crystal Car Wash, Super Degreaser, and Wheel Brightener along with various brushes.
I washed the truck with Gold Class Car Wash Shampoo & Conditioner, and some Body Solvent.
I dried it with some Water Magnets, the pulled it in the garage and took some before shots on the interior:
The drivers side was stained pretty badly as well:
I started off by vacumming every inch of the interior, especially in bewtween the seats. The vacumming alone took over an hour. I filled up a five gallon bucket with papers, garbage, toys, food, wrapers, lolly pops, bread, makeup tubes, straws, etc.
I then filled up another bucket with hot water, I threw in my shoe polish brush, a toothbrush, and a paintbrush. I hung a bottle of All Purpose Cleaner on the side, and a bunch of terry and cotton cloths in my pocket. I agitated all of the vinyl, leather, and any other hard surface with the APC and the various brushes. This took about two hours.
After everything was clean , I vacummed the carpet again and filled up a fresh bucket of hot water and poured in 10oz of FS All Purpose Cleaner
into the bucket. I threw in two carpet brushes.
For the extremly soiled areas of the carpet, I agitated it with my carpet brush, hot water and APC mixture, liberal amounts of APC 4:1 sprayed on the surface, then rinsed with a wet cotton towel, extracted with my shop vac, and dried with cotton towels and the blower on my shop vac. I repeated the process four times.
On the more mild areas of the carpet, I just used All Purpose Cleaner at 10:1, and repeated the process one time on the spot treatments.
The carpet came out about 80% better, and I was able to get it dry to the touch in the end.
The interior was dressed with Quik Interior Detailer, glass was cleaned with Glass Cleaner Concentrate at 10:1. Jambs were cleaned with soap and water.
The drivers side came out really nice:
Dont mind my shadow:
Direct comparisons:
I clayed the exterior, then applied #66 - Quick Detailer (Cleaner/Wax) with my G110 and a few W8207 pads.
Interior needed some some major help and the exterior was just given a wash/seal.
The truck is a beat up POS. the body is rusting, there are several large dents, long scratches, buffer swirls and holograms, the plastic in the wells is peeling, the tires are bald etc. it has 87k miles in its short two year life.
The interior was just as bad, all of the carpet was extremly stained, the leather and vinyl was loaded with dirt and grime, some of the plastic parts were discolored, etc. It was a mess.
I wanted to get the thing done and out of my garage, so pictures are not the greatest but I did get the key points.
Some befores of the exterior:
I started off by washing the wheels, tires, and wells and running boards with Deep Crystal Car Wash, Super Degreaser, and Wheel Brightener along with various brushes.
I washed the truck with Gold Class Car Wash Shampoo & Conditioner, and some Body Solvent.
I dried it with some Water Magnets, the pulled it in the garage and took some before shots on the interior:
The drivers side was stained pretty badly as well:
I started off by vacumming every inch of the interior, especially in bewtween the seats. The vacumming alone took over an hour. I filled up a five gallon bucket with papers, garbage, toys, food, wrapers, lolly pops, bread, makeup tubes, straws, etc.
I then filled up another bucket with hot water, I threw in my shoe polish brush, a toothbrush, and a paintbrush. I hung a bottle of All Purpose Cleaner on the side, and a bunch of terry and cotton cloths in my pocket. I agitated all of the vinyl, leather, and any other hard surface with the APC and the various brushes. This took about two hours.
After everything was clean , I vacummed the carpet again and filled up a fresh bucket of hot water and poured in 10oz of FS All Purpose Cleaner
into the bucket. I threw in two carpet brushes.
For the extremly soiled areas of the carpet, I agitated it with my carpet brush, hot water and APC mixture, liberal amounts of APC 4:1 sprayed on the surface, then rinsed with a wet cotton towel, extracted with my shop vac, and dried with cotton towels and the blower on my shop vac. I repeated the process four times.
On the more mild areas of the carpet, I just used All Purpose Cleaner at 10:1, and repeated the process one time on the spot treatments.
The carpet came out about 80% better, and I was able to get it dry to the touch in the end.
The interior was dressed with Quik Interior Detailer, glass was cleaned with Glass Cleaner Concentrate at 10:1. Jambs were cleaned with soap and water.
The drivers side came out really nice:
Dont mind my shadow:
Direct comparisons:
I clayed the exterior, then applied #66 - Quick Detailer (Cleaner/Wax) with my G110 and a few W8207 pads.
Awsome job
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