How to Clean your Interior and make it look better than NEW!
 

Yet another writeup to help folks who want to keep their 86 looking as clean as possible or restore it from the dead.

This will be a quick demonstration of how to restore DIRTY DIRTY interiors that have been neglected for years(10+) and bring them back to like new condition (or better!)

Since our cars are newer, they might not require this much of a deep cleaning, but spills and accidents happen so I figure it could help quite a bit of people :)

Products Used:

Stay Fresh Absolute Interior cleaner:
Just released, since I have been super pleased with all of their other products, I tried this as soon as i got my hands on it. Cleaning is as easy as can be with this product, hardly any effort is required. Safe for all interior surfaces such as trim and leather. Paired with a Scrub Pad made cleaning even easier as it picked up all the dirt without smearing it.

Stay Fresh Fabric Cleaner:
Makes fabric and carpet look brand new. Used it with a couple of farbic brushes for tight to reach areas and used a brush pad for my polishing machine. Machine cleaning fabric and seats really makes everything way easier and quicker. If you do not have access to one, comparable results can still be had with hand held brushes.

Don't have many before pics as I didn't think of doing a write up 'till I saw the amazing results and how easy it was to acquire them. I do have a lot of comparison and 50/50 photos though.

This is the Absolute Interior Cleaner at work, notice how when used with a Scrub Pad it removes dirt and grime inside the tiny crevices:

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This Door is filthy, this is how the rest of the car was.
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Partway there, top done.
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Night and day difference.
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Absolute Interior really cleaned everything and restored the inside to better than new condition. Before trying it, I used some common commercial cleaners and none of them came close to how well this cleaned. Most just clean the light stains without attacking the tough dirt, which is what causes build up over time.

This is the fabric cleaner in action. Again I used a combination of handheld brushes and the PC7424xp with a brush pad hooked onto it.


Some Before pics, look at all the stains that are deep into the fabric.
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Here are some progression and 50/50 shots.
Again, Night and day difference.
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Comparison Photos:
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You'd think the owner went and bought new seats

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How my Scrub pad looked after I was done
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And some random photos because I'm OCD about cleaning every nook and cranny
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Wow! Nicely done!

Thanks!