Guys, I cant imagine the things I have dropped in the deep, narrow crevice between front seats (2006 S-Type) & console & underneath front seats. Does anybody have any suggestions...long, narrow brush of some sort or find a gas station with air-pressure trigger grip that blows compressed air or ...

BTW, it seems like Murphy's oil soap (orange) is a great & cheap leather/interior cleaner; got mine at Home Depot $4 & change

Thanks,

Norman

 

I bought an "immaculate" XES just over a year ago, and I'm METICULOUS with detailing... the car gets washed and an interior clean once a week, with a full detail once a month. Even with all this, on Saturday's clean I still managed to find three crusty old Maccas french fries under the passenger seat and half a strip of Panadol tablets under the drivers seat!!! I don't eat Maccas and I don't take Panadol, so these were left there by the previous owner!

I think three tools covers most things:

• Crevasse tool like this (the longer, the better) to get into the deep areas
• A rectangular head upholstery tool with a removable brush (like your normal vac head but smaller) for the larger carpet and seat areas
• A small round brush head to get into the corners

There's a set here which I think looks good. This is actually the set that came with my Numatic George vacuum (maybe the one in this link is a knock off), which leads me to the #1 most important thing - you need a vacuum cleaner that can suck the socks off your feet and the fillings out of your teeth. All the accessories in the world will do nothing if you're using a vacuum that sucks. Or doesn't suck. You know what I mean! It might be worth looking to hire a commercial vacuum for this job.. up to you whether the rental cost is worth it. George is also a wet extraction vac and, if you really want to spruce things up, I'd suggest looking into doing a wet extraction.. the clean smell afterwards is soooo good. Any carpet wet extractor with a small head will do the job for your car carpet, here in Aus we can hire them from big hardware stores or sometimes supermarkets. I had a guy come and do a vehicle for me once and I think it cost me $100 for the floors and the seats, and it was really worth it.

I often watch Jim White's videos (White Details) and I've seen him use compressed air a bunch of times. He usually vacuums the interior til it's pretty much spotless, then blows compressed air into the crevasses and under the seats, then vacuums again... if you use compressed air first, you'll just stir everything up and you'll move some stuff from under the seats out into the open, and move some other stuff from out in the open to under the seats. If you want to be really sure, do the compressed air step twice i.e. vacuum, compressed air, vacuum, compressed air, vacuum.

All that being said, the only way to truly get everything is to remove the seats so you have clear access. Depends on how hard you want to go

Good luck!

 

I use a long nozzle on a Dyson Battery-Vacuum-cleaner.
But there are alternatives: Cut off 30cm of an old garden hose and use duct-tape to attach this bit to the front of any vacuum cleaner. Ready to go.
Btw.: So far - in all the used Jags I bought - I found money in every one of them - thus, maybe you are lucky and you'll find your own money in your car...
Or to put it differently: If you can't pay your bills, clean your car on the inside....

 

Genius, I'm gonna try that this weekend

I found a set of Ray-Bans in mine when I gave it its first clean