Thread: 30-06ai 60 series custom landcruiser build

Originally Posted by No.3

If there's still a bit of a stain left grab a rug doctor with the furniture wand - they do a surprisingly good job on car interiors. I got a Navara D22 cheap, off a dealers lot at 14000K's with a brown-grey-yellow interior instead of light grey. The previous worker had been smoking cigars in it, and no one else in the company would use it it stunk that bad! The dealer's gear couldn't touch it on their grooming floor - they only had the basic stuff so sold the ute off cheap (I recall $32K for a 2007 model ute at 11 months old and 14Kms? Cost me something like 23K with trades etc).

The rug doctor with upholstery attachment and a heavy dose of carpet stain solution in it knocked it back to looking brand new in one pass. Did two goes on it though, the thing smelt like it was a brand new carpet after that and looked mint as. The dealer looked at it when I brought it back for the first service I negotiated into the sale after sniggering at me about it being a write off basically - thought I had swapped the roof lining out and was peeved when I wouldn't tell him what I'd done to it haha. Basically saved me 14965K on the ute I think ($35 to hire the rug doctor for two hours).

The pics make them look way worse thsn they actually are, they were still quite damp, they've been sitting in a hot dry greenhouse for a few days now and the dirt will pretty much brush off with a bristle brush, the steam will kill any nasty stuff unseen to the eye and deodorize them too. Will post pics post steam cleaning after Fridays working session. If they don't come clean with steam I have a few other tricks up my sleeve.