So imagine you are headed to work with your morning cup of Joe, and you hit a bump you couldn't see. #@!**.





It's okay we all have bad days, so you get home and call the first person you know can clean this mess up. Here I will go over the steps to clean the interior of your car, clean or not so clean.

Items Used
Shop Vac
Bissell Little Green Clean Machine - LGCM
Folex Carpet Stain Spray
Oxi-Clean
2 Buckets
Interior Scrub Brush
Microfiber Towels

1. (Optional) This step makes the rest 1000x easier. Remove the seats out of the car. Usually it only takes a couple of bolts.

2. Give the interior a through vacuuming.

3. Pre-treat all of the stained areas with your folex spray. Make sure to give the areas a liberal spray so that lifting and removing the stains will be easier.

4. While the pre-treatment is working itself in, fill your 2 buckets with HOT water. Water from the tap will do just fine, no need to boil it.

5. Take one of the buckets with hot water and add 1 ounce of oxi-clean/16 ounces of water. Let the oxi-clean dissolve into this bucket, and leave the other bucket just plain with water.

6. While the oxi-clean is dissolving, take your interior scrub brush and scrub the pre-treated areas. Give them about 15-20 second scrub each area.

7. With your hands, or a small bottle, scoop out some oxi/h2o solution and pour it into the affected area. Work one area at a time. Make sure you get enough solution in the area, and then start scrubbing. Once you think you have scrubbed enough, scrub some more, and then suck up all of the solution with your LGCM.

8. Now take some of your water only, and pour that in the same area, then suck up the water with your LGCM. This is your rinse cycle. If the water coming up from the carpet is totally clear, then move on to the next area. If not, repeat step #7. solution/scrub/rinse until you are happy with the results. The water coming up from the carpet will most likely never be totally clear, but it also shouldn't look like chocolate milk, you be the judge.

9. When doing your final rinse cycle, suck up all the water you can, your carpet/seats should be moist not wet.

10. When you are finished with all of the areas spray febreeze under your seats, and under your floor mats (if applicable)

When you are finally done you should have something that looks similar to this.

 

Nice. i was wondering how you got that carpet so clean.

 

hmmm I might have to do this to my sedan soon.

 

How much does that little green machine cost? I have a shop vac that also sucks up water, will that work?

 

Yes the shopvac works also. Usually has to be 5hp or greater. The advantage to the LGCM is that you can see if the rinse water coming up is clean or still very dirty.

 

little green pro heat, im sold, buying one now

 

awesome thread. thanks

 

good write-up, i'll be sure to follow this

 

nice work! i have LGCM too.

your results are better than mine.

thread jack. here are my results with LGCM

https://honda-tech.com/forums/appearance-build-threads-122/%2A%2A%2A%2Aspec-rs-dc4-interior-restoration%2A%2A%2A%2A-2414958/

 

Came out pretty good, you should try different techniques to see what fits your style and try to get all of those stains out of the newer carpet.

 

great job man I also have a little green machine it works wonders

 

nice write up!

 

Great write up! Will try this soon.

 

you'll get better results if you were to take the carpet out and scrub it in the bath tub with flowing hot water. it takes longer but you'll get 100% dirt, dust, grim. you also can clean underneath the carpet. lots of dirt builds up under it.

 

Had to do that with an Accord I had. Actually loaned the car to my mother and told her what to tell the detail shop to do. It came out great.

Really, it's a process I'd reserve for the TRULY NASTY interiors.

On another note....I think people that order cars with LIGHT color interior are morons. You're just asking for obvious stains. A light colored interior will turn me off from a car with a quickness. I had a CGP Teg. I wasn't crazy about the tan when I got it. I thought I'd get used to it....NOPE...I grew to hate it more and more.

 

Some people are more worried about the exterior color, and some manufacturers don't offer dark interior with a light exterior.