Grifftech
07-01-2012, 02:33 AM
It was a 2010 Ford Edge, Vanilla exterior color with light tan leather interior. The car had not been cleaned in 16 MONTHS!!! The owner had put put 100k miles on the car in that time and the exterior was in horrid shape.
The whole front of the car and front of side view mirrors had 16 months of bug and tar caked on them and dried and etched in, the side's of the car behind the wheel wells were just as bad with tar.
She is a smoker with 2 dogs she hauls around and she had not touched the interior either in 16 months.
iI quoted her sight unseen as she is a friend at $125 for thorough exterior wash, clay bar, seal and wax and interior. When she pulled up I knew I was in for a work out.
Needless to say I went through a bottle of TarX, Bug remover, IronX and 2 clay bars. After 3 hours I had the car stripped down of all contaminants, and now all her rock chips were sticking out like a sore thumb.
I then spent and hour polishing the chrome rims with Meguiar's metal polish, along with the exhaust tips.
Once I had the exterior done and dried I went to work on the interior.. OMG!
She had dog food, rocks, grass, dog vomit and so on on the carpet. I washed the floor mats, washed the rubber floor mats she had and then spot cleaned the carpert. She knew I didn't have a hot water extractor carpet cleaner so I wasn't going to get the carpet perfect.
I then went to work with Chemical Guys InnerClean and cleaned that interior from top to bottom and then used CG's Leather cleaner and conditioner on all the leather seats.
I used a smoke deodorizer on all the carpets and even ran the AC and spritzed some into the intake under the dash to get some more smoke smell out, and it worked well.
She didn't want any paint correction, man it needed it, but after clay barring i hit it with Blacklight then V7.
The tires and trim I used Meguiars Tire and Trim gel, which is AMAZING!
Meguairs Metal polish on the rims and exhaust.
Then did a final wipe down, and checked everything for anything I missed.
I then drove the car over to her house to deliver it, and when I pulled up and got out she FREAKED.. She was amazed how clean it was, and "it looks better than when I bought it"
She kept going on for the next 15 minutes checking the car out and raving about it.. i felt awesome.
When she paid me, she game me another $50 bucks for such an amazing job, so it turned out to be a $175 dollar gig.. that was awesome.
She is very connected in town and she said I am going to get you so much business. And she is wanting to set up a monthly maintenance cleaning on it.
I am excited, and when I got done, it was the first time in many many years I felt proud about something I had done. it was very rewarding.
So, thanks AG and AG forum for all your help and guidance.. I think I may be taking this to the next level.
-Chris
The whole front of the car and front of side view mirrors had 16 months of bug and tar caked on them and dried and etched in, the side's of the car behind the wheel wells were just as bad with tar.
She is a smoker with 2 dogs she hauls around and she had not touched the interior either in 16 months.
iI quoted her sight unseen as she is a friend at $125 for thorough exterior wash, clay bar, seal and wax and interior. When she pulled up I knew I was in for a work out.
Needless to say I went through a bottle of TarX, Bug remover, IronX and 2 clay bars. After 3 hours I had the car stripped down of all contaminants, and now all her rock chips were sticking out like a sore thumb.
I then spent and hour polishing the chrome rims with Meguiar's metal polish, along with the exhaust tips.
Once I had the exterior done and dried I went to work on the interior.. OMG!
She had dog food, rocks, grass, dog vomit and so on on the carpet. I washed the floor mats, washed the rubber floor mats she had and then spot cleaned the carpert. She knew I didn't have a hot water extractor carpet cleaner so I wasn't going to get the carpet perfect.
I then went to work with Chemical Guys InnerClean and cleaned that interior from top to bottom and then used CG's Leather cleaner and conditioner on all the leather seats.
I used a smoke deodorizer on all the carpets and even ran the AC and spritzed some into the intake under the dash to get some more smoke smell out, and it worked well.
She didn't want any paint correction, man it needed it, but after clay barring i hit it with Blacklight then V7.
The tires and trim I used Meguiars Tire and Trim gel, which is AMAZING!
Meguairs Metal polish on the rims and exhaust.
Then did a final wipe down, and checked everything for anything I missed.
I then drove the car over to her house to deliver it, and when I pulled up and got out she FREAKED.. She was amazed how clean it was, and "it looks better than when I bought it"
She kept going on for the next 15 minutes checking the car out and raving about it.. i felt awesome.
When she paid me, she game me another $50 bucks for such an amazing job, so it turned out to be a $175 dollar gig.. that was awesome.
She is very connected in town and she said I am going to get you so much business. And she is wanting to set up a monthly maintenance cleaning on it.
I am excited, and when I got done, it was the first time in many many years I felt proud about something I had done. it was very rewarding.
So, thanks AG and AG forum for all your help and guidance.. I think I may be taking this to the next level.
-Chris