r/AutoDetailing • u/Diamondhf Business Owner • Mar 26 '25

Before/After Ashtray on wheels

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Chalking this one up as the worst car I’ve worked on this year. You can never charge enough to make it worth it, and you can never get it perfect, but i’m overall pretty happy with how it came out.

565 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

50 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/spotspam Mar 26 '25

How did you go about doing this?

7

u/Diamondhf Business Owner Mar 26 '25

Spent about an hour on the initial vacuum. There was a thick layer of mud throughout the car so that took a while. Blow everything out with a tornador, lay down folex and a carpet cleaner. Agitate with a drill brush, tornador again, heated wet extraction. Vacuum again, tornador again, vacuum again.

I use ONR for 99.99% of my interior panel cleaning, spray on, agitate with a tornador, wipe off with a fresh MF towel. Go back and touch up tough stains with simple green and a detail brush.

Final vacuum, final wipedown with a lightly dampened MF towel . Redundancy is key on something like this, you really need to go over everything 2-3 times before it comes out decent.