Interior cleaning on a 1990's Mercedes

[zckid]

Hello everyone!

One of my friends asked me to clean the interior of his car, his beauty, I’d say, a lovely Mercedes from the 1990’s. It was cleaned it in December last.

We were supposed to steam clean it. Very early the following day I started. I put on the steamer, vacuumed the whole interior, and did some scrubbing. And surprise, surprise. The steamer was leaking, no steam coming out and part of the car was wet already. I put my belief in Almighty that I might do it without the steamer. So I persevered.

The sunroof area

The headliner

A little 50-50

Almost done, will require a little more agitating

The pillars, same for others

What is removed…?

The arm rest

A little section cleaned to show the difference

The console area

A not so 50-50 at the top

Close-up: in action

Getting the original color

OMG!

More than 5 liters of juice: the headliner, arm rest and console area combined

More

The seats

Close-ups

Pure sand, from the white sandy beaches of our sunny island

From top to bottom
Cleaned, cleaning, not yet cleaned

From this

Restored to dirt-free original color

This is pure seat nectar rops:

 

[zckid]

Moving onto the carpets

The driver’s seat area

I thought I would be best to remove the carpet completely

And look

Cleaning every nook and cranny

The rear seats areas

Feeling happy & blessed

More

Finished

Hello

Still more to add to this collection

Doors not ignored

And from the always smiling vac

Benz smoothies

Not good to see… just to show dirt is not our friend but our intimate enemy

Before

Now

The boot lid

It was already dark, I had one more thing to do.


The console area scratches

Close-up

I thought it would be so cruel, so unfair to let this ride go with these. I polished it, +75% of the scratches were removed.

I only got the finished pics of the same 3 months later

and the beauty leaving

I was finishing with a

courtesy of the Mrs. rops:

Thanks for reading, your thoughts and comments are most welcome

Happy detailing weekend

cheers

Zaid

 

[Reddwarf]

Wow, that was one dirty interior! Yikes! Amazing when you see the dirty water buckets. You did a great job bringing it back to a nice clean ride. What products did you use? How did you polish the wood dash? I did own a Jag and I loved the wood dash but it had a really thick coating like plastic so you never actually could touch the wood.

 

[The Driver]

I hope you PAID for that one. GREAT recovery!

 

[zckid]

Wow, that was one dirty interior! Yikes! Amazing when you see the dirty water buckets. You did a great job bringing it back to a nice clean ride. What products did you use? How did you polish the wood dash? I did own a Jag and I loved the wood dash but it had a really thick coating like plastic so you never actually could touch the wood.

Thanks for your kind words buddy

Yes it was years and years of dirt and stains

Here are the tools

To be frank, very simple tools:

- A coat brush (can be used as a leather brush)
- a tooth brush
- some microfiber towels
- a soft detailing brush

- a bottle of Bilt Hamber surfex HD diluted 1: 15+ (same as Megs APC or Opt Power Clean)

- Hot water

- My dry Numatic vacuum (turned into a wet vac by removing the dust bag .... it was risky :iagree: ) it still works well thanks God.


For polishing the wood dash part

- Menz 203s
- Lake Country white hand held pad and a lot of elbow grease :bigups

 

[zckid]

I hope you PAID for that one. GREAT recovery!

the price was Full body pain

Thanks a lot buddy

 

[Old Pirate]

What a great save there, it had to be a pain in the a$$ to do but the reward shows your work!:bigups

 

[zckid]

What a great save there, it had to be a pain in the a$$ to do but the reward shows your work!:bigups

thanks a lot my friend. the result is simply a blessing from Almighty Above esp. as the steamer was out of use. :bigups