hi car cleaning guru i have just found your channel i have a t5 van which I am always trying to keep clean so your videos are very useful thanks for taking the time to make them.
I really like how you use the crevice tool back and forth like a highlighter. I have only used this tool for crevices, not for surfaces like this. I am going to try it this way. The results on your video look fantastic!
Thank you! I tried this with my home vacuum cleaner (Eureka Mighty Mite) and I got good results as long as pet-hair was not involved. We have one car with black cloth interior and about four years of white and tan pet hair. We may have to go to a professional with this. I tried using a silicone brush, damp microfiber towel and got some of the hair out but not all. Thank you for sharing your attention to detail. It is very inspiring. I own a 10 year old family sedan and I certainly have more pride of ownership after cleaning the interior surfaces and all crevices with your methods. Passengers are now amazed to hear my car is 10 years old.
A piece of fluff that needed to be hoovered up is finally put where it belongs at 2:52...... That was driving me insane for about a minute! Thanks for the tips :D
After applying your general purpose cleaner on the seat and door guards, I noticed if you spray water on the affected area you're about to agitate helps in the soil extraction during vacuuming. I think it may also save up on some time, as well.
Thanks you so much for your videos I love them all. I just bought a car that has some cigarette smell, just wondering what you would advice concerning the equipments and products to use to clean . Unfortunately you don't have a video with that issue .
a caddy build sounds great i had a caddy maxi before my t5 it was a great van I just needed more room I have to use the t5 for my work so I can not do anything to wild with.
My latest aquisition has a rather damp, musty and I think people smell, ewww,. The upholstery clearly needs this treatment and it will be getting it. As my living room carpet is also in need of tlc I'll hire one of those machines and use it on the car too. Should make quite a difference to it! Music is always divisive and maybe a little more editing would bring the run time down. I know I'm put off sometimes by videos running past the 10 minute mark. 137k subs and nearly half a million views, maybe I'll just keep quiet! :D Thanks for sharing CGC.
how come on the first steps you do. you Don't use your extractor? After the Vacuum step We hit first the Spots then We Pre-spray, give a couple of minutes on the dwell time. follow by a hand brush and final rinse with the Hot water from the Portable extractor. just using the Apc,brushing and just passing the Vacuum? just giving a constructive Detail tip!
Osvaldo Oso Trasvina getting rid of all the loose junk on the surface. Don't want to grind crumbs into your seats WHILE you are cleaning. consider it prep
Is that vacuum washer safe to use on front seats with side airbags? My sister has a Bissel carpet vacuum washer, and I wondered if it was safe to use in my Peugeot 306 2.0 XSi car?
my car seats have built in airbags would using an upholstery cleaner be recommended as it seems wrong to risk getting that area damp/wet? I wanted to ask someone who details upholster professionally for their opinion. thanks
I do detailing for my job, and i was wondering about your extractor head. Ours doesn't have the edges around the spay nozzle. When the stream hits the upholstery / carpet, it tends to go everywhere. Your plastic piece contains the spray very nicely and keeps the water in one area. What brand of extractor is that, or where do you think i can see some spray guards like the one that's on your extractor nozzle?
+Car Cleaning Guru The only recommendation I would make with respect the Dyson machines is to avoid the uprights for Vacuuming in a vehicle. As the hose is a collapsible style (which is great for general convenience), the vacuum pulls the hose taught, which I found frustrating at the best of times. As this hose clips onto the base of the machine (with not particularly strong clips I may add), the combination of the suction and the pulling on the hose when vacuuming in a car, can cause the hose to "ping" off. The last time it happened to me, I had to polish out a mark from the paintwork as it hit a body panel while the hose retracted. I invested in a Nilfisk Multi 30T specifically for car cleaning duties. Not the cheapest of machines, but has a lot of bang for the buck, and a whole host of accessories are available. Bags are about 15 pounds for a pack of 3; and they hold a lot of waste. :-)
Haha this is an oldie.. Sounding more like a TV presenter than our well known Car Cleaning Guru.. lol.. Anyway I've been going through your vids looking to find products.. Probably watched all your vids at least twice over the past year.. Your opinion and choice is the best on TH-cam so always check your content first.. So question.. What is your go to upholstery cleaner? and is it better to add it to the machine (mine being a Bissell spotless Pro.. another of your recommendations) or to use in a spray gun soaking carpet/upholstery then sucking up just using water in the Bissell? Thanks for all of your wonderful content and valuable information.. This time just over a year ago I had a bucket, a sponge and a bottle of turtle shampoo/wax now my tiny study room is packed full of car cleaning products, chemicals and detailing equipment lol Cheers Buddy.
Great! I haven't done any videos featuring them (yet) but they're a highly effective way of removing deeply ingrained dirt from many areas of a car without having to use chemicals or get things wet.
CarCleaningGuru Thanks for the quick reply! Going to clean my car tomorrow. The interior is caked in mud from the winter but I got a steam machine for my house which I will try on my car. Do you think it is safe to use them over buttons and the center console in general?
+CarCleaningGuru, sir, will the wet all purpose cleaner which you put on upholstery dry right after vacuuming your upholstery, or do you leave them damp? How do you dry them?
+CarCleaningGuru Suits me just fine, I just got my Foma Mimo and was looking for tips on how to clean my "new" old Volvo V40 smokers car. Thanks for the video :)
What if a customer had a dog cover over the seats. Would you remove them? Also , do you clean the inside of the glove box? Do you include the trunk as interior? If so, do you remove everything from there.
+Michael Hinchey I include the trunk, generally clean the inside of the glove box unless it's packed full of shite, and it would depend on what the customer wanted and how much they were paying to remove seats and clean underneath them etc.
+Car Cleaning Guru sorry I didn't mean remove the seats. I meant if they had seat covers. Would you remove the covers and also do the seats underneath. Sometimes , the customer may have just a covering of the bench in the backseat.
Nice video, horrible music...if you want millions of hits, dump the music and leave real vacuum and cleaning sounds. The voice narration is fine but lose the cheesy sound affect. Most important, after you restore real sound list this under ASMR affect, it would be an amazing video for those who experience autonomous sensory meridian response.
No dude, Fuck that. All he's gotta do is Pull the wires back and run them through the firewall into the cab. Meet the other end in the trunk. Come up through one of the grommets in the truck. Enjoy the low life, Then he never has worry about cables again...
Too much time wasted with the crevice vacuum tool. If you have a powerful shop vac (5Hp and above) simply using the dedicated car wand is more than sufficient.
Smart Kar Kare Services is amazing for this kind of stuff,one of my friend used there services and also he saved money using UPto75 coupon thanks UPto75
A bit long and drawn out? do we need to see every single vaccum motion? i fell asleep watching the crevice tool! good tutorial stretched out way too long!
I'd like to see you do this on a dirty sand coloured leather and cloth interior that really dirty, not something that's dark just getting a freshen up for god sake. "Heavily soiled areas my arse"
you could star by getting rid of the dog, or get a hairless dog, then, save some money and pay a professional to do it, or better yet, get another car.
***** a professional is not always easy to find, i used to use a good one that charged $180 for car wash T-cut and polish and a steam clean inside the car. he moved :( don't have a professional replacement.
MyRose911 yeah i bought a new car and the first thing i bought was one of those good quality backseat dog covers that stop all the dog hair, grit and dirt getting into the seat, has worked wonders. Prevention is always better
170k+ views on a monetised video says otherwise. Also, check out some of my more recent videos as this was filmed a good number of years ago now and we all have to start somewhere.
James Cronin That's assuming everyone stubbornly sat through the entire 18 minutes like yourself, knowing it was wasting their time, which, as my analytics thankfully illustrate, they didn't. I apologise for wasting 18 minutes of your life - that certainly wasn't my intention when I made this video all those years ago but as I've already said, I recommend you check out some of my more recent videos where I've taken much of the constructive criticism on board to hopefully make my content more informative and less of a waste of peoples valuable time :)
CarCleaningGuru i do this for a living too, and i still found your video interesting, i gues these guys came here looking for a top tip that can obliterate an interior for less than 50p and takes less than 30 seconds. keep up the good work
hi car cleaning guru i have just found your channel i have a t5 van which I am always trying to keep clean so your videos are very useful thanks for taking the time to make them.
I'd like to get a Caddy myself and do a video series following the build & kit out!
I really like how you use the crevice tool back and forth like a highlighter. I have only used this tool for crevices, not for surfaces like this. I am going to try it this way. The results on your video look fantastic!
Requires a little more effort but gives a deeper clean imo.
Thank you! I tried this with my home vacuum cleaner (Eureka Mighty Mite) and I got good results as long as pet-hair was not involved. We have one car with black cloth interior and about four years of white and tan pet hair. We may have to go to a professional with this. I tried using a silicone brush, damp microfiber towel and got some of the hair out but not all.
Thank you for sharing your attention to detail. It is very inspiring. I own a 10 year old family sedan and I certainly have more pride of ownership after cleaning the interior surfaces and all crevices with your methods. Passengers are now amazed to hear my car is 10 years old.
It's a Numatic George, that can be used as both a wet vac and a normal vac.
This video would be amazing if it didn't have the music over it
A piece of fluff that needed to be hoovered up is finally put where it belongs at 2:52...... That was driving me insane for about a minute! Thanks for the tips :D
Out of all the tools required....... i had the vaccum
you're not supposed to dispose of the vacuum after it's first use
You don't have nail brushes? You filthy dogs! Why are you watching this? :D
After applying your general purpose cleaner on the seat and door guards, I noticed if you spray water on the affected area you're about to agitate helps in the soil extraction during vacuuming. I think it may also save up on some time, as well.
lol bro, good job on the evolution of the channel!
Thanks you so much for your videos I love them all. I just bought a car that has some cigarette smell, just wondering what you would advice concerning the equipments and products to use to clean . Unfortunately you don't have a video with that issue .
a caddy build sounds great i had a caddy maxi before my t5 it was a great van I just needed more room I have to use the t5 for my work so I can not do anything to wild with.
good to see some folks getting to work!
These tips are excellent. The only thing that troubled me was where the hell you found a car with interior patterns like that?!!? :P
i'm guessing your using a george to extract the seats, are you happy with the way it performs in the amount of liquid it pulls out of the fabric?
Man you are the best i seen by far on youtube man. What kind of all purpose spray do you use?
My latest aquisition has a rather damp, musty and I think people smell, ewww,. The upholstery clearly needs this treatment and it will be getting it. As my living room carpet is also in need of tlc I'll hire one of those machines and use it on the car too. Should make quite a difference to it! Music is always divisive and maybe a little more editing would bring the run time down. I know I'm put off sometimes by videos running past the 10 minute mark. 137k subs and nearly half a million views, maybe I'll just keep quiet! :D Thanks for sharing CGC.
No to be fair this is a really old video uploaded back when I didn't really know what I was doing editing wise!
how come on the first steps you do. you Don't use your extractor? After the Vacuum step We hit first the Spots then We Pre-spray, give a couple of minutes on the dwell time. follow by a hand brush and final rinse with the Hot water from the Portable extractor. just using the Apc,brushing and just passing the Vacuum? just giving a constructive Detail tip!
Osvaldo Oso Trasvina getting rid of all the loose junk on the surface. Don't want to grind crumbs into your seats WHILE you are cleaning. consider it prep
Got it!!!
so much detail, thanks for sharing
I want to go clean my car now...
Is that vacuum washer safe to use on front seats with side airbags? My sister has a Bissel carpet vacuum washer, and I wondered if it was safe to use in my Peugeot 306 2.0 XSi car?
As we're enjoying a very sunny BH, do you have any tips for washing the car in hot and sunny conditions? Thanks, CGC.
Wait until early evening if possible - that's what I'm doing anyway!
Thanks for getting back to me. I know you're good at what you do because you've got me interested in cleaning my car!
my car seats have built in airbags would using an upholstery cleaner be recommended as it seems wrong to risk getting that area damp/wet? I wanted to ask someone who details upholster professionally for their opinion. thanks
Red smoothie juice got splashed onto my headlining that is light coloured. Any advice on how to remove these stains?
Diluted all purpose cleaner, either 10:1 or 5:1 depending on the severity of the stain.
What chemicals did you use and how did you dilute it?
I do detailing for my job, and i was wondering about your extractor head. Ours doesn't have the edges around the spay nozzle. When the stream hits the upholstery / carpet, it tends to go everywhere. Your plastic piece contains the spray very nicely and keeps the water in one area. What brand of extractor is that, or where do you think i can see some spray guards like the one that's on your extractor nozzle?
looks like the Numatic CT470/-2, i have the same one
It's just a standard Numatic George wet & dry.
Any particular hints for cleaning headlining material, especially the more modern stuff which feels like fuzzy cardboard. Thanks. Ken
Do you use your Numatic George with a bag or without
With 99% of the time otherwise his guts get real dirty real quick!
What solution did you use in the wet vac?
Is a Dyson DC25 ok to use would you think? Can't really stretch to a George just for the car but still want to keep the car nice and clean.
+Tom Hawkins Never used a Dyson myself but I'm sure it would be up to a bit of routine use.
+Car Cleaning Guru The only recommendation I would make with respect the Dyson machines is to avoid the uprights for Vacuuming in a vehicle. As the hose is a collapsible style (which is great for general convenience), the vacuum pulls the hose taught, which I found frustrating at the best of times. As this hose clips onto the base of the machine (with not particularly strong clips I may add), the combination of the suction and the pulling on the hose when vacuuming in a car, can cause the hose to "ping" off. The last time it happened to me, I had to polish out a mark from the paintwork as it hit a body panel while the hose retracted. I invested in a Nilfisk Multi 30T specifically for car cleaning duties. Not the cheapest of machines, but has a lot of bang for the buck, and a whole host of accessories are available. Bags are about 15 pounds for a pack of 3; and they hold a lot of waste. :-)
johnmcquay82 used my Dyson. had no issues.
Haha this is an oldie..
Sounding more like a TV presenter than our well known Car Cleaning Guru.. lol.. Anyway I've been going through your vids looking to find products..
Probably watched all your vids at least twice over the past year..
Your opinion and choice is the best on TH-cam so always check your content first.. So question.. What is your go to upholstery cleaner? and is it better to add it to the machine (mine being a Bissell spotless Pro.. another of your recommendations) or to use in a spray gun soaking carpet/upholstery then sucking up just using water in the Bissell?
Thanks for all of your wonderful content and valuable information..
This time just over a year ago I had a bucket, a sponge and a bottle of turtle shampoo/wax now my tiny study room is packed full of car cleaning products, chemicals and detailing equipment lol
Cheers Buddy.
anyone else hear "fuck you" everytime this dude says vacuuming?
fuck you
Fackyoumean
Hi! Can u recomend me something for cleaning makeup foundation stains from the leather interior plz
What's your opinion in steam machines?
Great! I haven't done any videos featuring them (yet) but they're a highly effective way of removing deeply ingrained dirt from many areas of a car without having to use chemicals or get things wet.
CarCleaningGuru Thanks for the quick reply! Going to clean my car tomorrow. The interior is caked in mud from the winter but I got a steam machine for my house which I will try on my car. Do you think it is safe to use them over buttons and the center console in general?
Grant Kidd I think they're generally pretty safe yes. I'd apply the steam through a microfibre towel though and just keep it moving over the surface.
CarCleaningGuru Thanks, so just wrap the microfiber around the nozzle, this is going to take a while hahaha
Loved that background music to tiger feet by mud
Could you tell me the model of your Numatic George it's located at the back of the machine
What spray did you use when cleaning the side panels on the door?
That'll be Autosmart Brisk, although any designated upholstery cleaner, or even all purpose cleaner will do.
+CarCleaningGuru, sir, will the wet all purpose cleaner which you put on upholstery dry right after vacuuming your upholstery, or do you leave them damp? How do you dry them?
how do u mix the g101 cleaner with water by ml not ratio as i dont understand this
can I use disposable surface cleaning wipes to clean dashboard?
+Nazgûl Yes allot of people keep these handy in the car. They won't give as thorough a clean as a dedicated spray on product and towel though.
Car Cleaning Guru cool. thanks for the quick reply
What kind of car is that?
Nice
How do u get the smell of cigarette smoke out if a car?
prevention is best, DONT SMOKE!
Too late lol
Try pouring coffee grounds on a plate and leaving the plate on the floor it should help.
Cheers
Cheers buddy
nice
at two minutes in there is a design in the seat it's a perfect silhouette of a human being looks like something from Tool album cover freaking crazy
Nice spot! You're right :))Tool all the way
T. Works A crappy old Volvo S40!
+CarCleaningGuru Suits me just fine, I just got my Foma Mimo and was looking for tips on how to clean my "new" old Volvo V40 smokers car. Thanks for the video :)
great music!
I m from India and in Indian (Hindi) language Guru means teacher..... where u got this word..curious to know
Sagar Yadav from India 😃
Strewth, I've done three cars while this was playing!
:)
The music, lordy
great tutorial pity about the music
Yeah, I totally agree !!
+histoman4 😂
This would have made a great ASMR video hadn't it been for the background music :s
What if a customer had a dog cover over the seats. Would you remove them? Also , do you clean the inside of the glove box? Do you include the trunk as interior? If so, do you remove everything from there.
+Michael Hinchey I include the trunk, generally clean the inside of the glove box unless it's packed full of shite, and it would depend on what the customer wanted and how much they were paying to remove seats and clean underneath them etc.
+Car Cleaning Guru sorry I didn't mean remove the seats. I meant if they had seat covers. Would you remove the covers and also do the seats underneath. Sometimes , the customer may have just a covering of the bench in the backseat.
Yes I meant in regards to covers!
+Car Cleaning Guru thx for the tips
Should specify " wet & dry vacuum "
Nice video, horrible music...if you want millions of hits, dump the music and leave real vacuum and cleaning sounds. The voice narration is fine but lose the cheesy sound affect. Most important, after you restore real sound list this under ASMR affect, it would be an amazing video for those who experience autonomous sensory meridian response.
No dude, Fuck that. All he's gotta do is
Pull the wires back and run them through the firewall into the cab. Meet
the other end in the trunk. Come up through one of the grommets in the
truck. Enjoy the low life, Then he never has worry about cables again...
Better than the majority of TH-cam videos where there is very loud aggressive, pumping dance techno muzak.
look like some one couldent make it to the restroom poor seat lol
What the hell is "fuckyouming" ???
Too much time wasted with the crevice vacuum tool. If you have a powerful shop vac (5Hp and above) simply using the dedicated car wand is more than sufficient.
Where can I rent an extractor?
very long drawn out process guys.
what vacuum and extractor do you use
That upholstery carpet is so hella disgusting
wow... even super clean, that upholstery is hideous...
Sadly most old volvo s40's have that interior :(
I agree! Pretty bland.
yeah I was hoping he forgot to dilute the APC and that hideous design in the seats would get wiped away.
Never dwell...never
Do you need to vacuume after using g101 or can you just wife with a microfiber
Depends how much you spray, I always give it a vac though.
I don't have a wet vax will a normal vacuume cleaner work
That nayle broosh is a little harsh ole chap
Smart Kar Kare Services is amazing for this kind of stuff,one of my friend used there services and also he saved money using UPto75 coupon thanks UPto75
a vacuum??????? wait let me write this down
That is the worst upholstery I have ever seen. What about cleaning leather?
Then to have a smoke
7 people committed suicide during the making of this film. #fact
Your both wrong it’s now 293
lol
A bit long and drawn out? do we need to see every single vaccum motion? i fell asleep watching the crevice tool! good tutorial stretched out way too long!
2019
Cowboy music
I'd like to see you do this on a dirty sand coloured leather and cloth interior that really dirty, not something that's dark just getting a freshen up for god sake. "Heavily soiled areas my arse"
potato :)
I use a drill
nice one
someone wants me to clean his car and the back seat is filthy with wet sand and dog hairs where would i start lol
Vaccum.... and then chemical clean
you could star by getting rid of the dog, or get a hairless dog, then, save some money and pay a professional to do it, or better yet, get another car.
*****
a professional is not always easy to find, i used to use a good one that charged $180 for car wash T-cut and polish and a steam clean inside the car. he moved :( don't have a professional replacement.
haha he got rid of the car now and when he got a new one i insisted he put covers on it so i will never have to clean it again. jobs a good un!!!
MyRose911 yeah i bought a new car and the first thing i bought was one of those good quality backseat dog covers that stop all the dog hair, grit and dirt getting into the seat, has worked wonders. Prevention is always better
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Hahahha re fuckiuming nice voice
how to clean a "clean" car wow. show us how to clean a dirty car.
Here you go - th-cam.com/video/xHHMbs97hmE/w-d-xo.html
Car Cleaning Guru gee thanks
Nothing special, you didn't need a 18 min video, you could have just said do what you normally do, just take your time
170k+ views on a monetised video says otherwise. Also, check out some of my more recent videos as this was filmed a good number of years ago now and we all have to start somewhere.
James Cronin That's assuming everyone stubbornly sat through the entire 18 minutes like yourself, knowing it was wasting their time, which, as my analytics thankfully illustrate, they didn't. I apologise for wasting 18 minutes of your life - that certainly wasn't my intention when I made this video all those years ago but as I've already said, I recommend you check out some of my more recent videos where I've taken much of the constructive criticism on board to hopefully make my content more informative and less of a waste of peoples valuable time :)
at least you admitted it was a complete waste of time. that's the 1st step.
CarCleaningGuru i do this for a living too, and i still found your video interesting, i gues these guys came here looking for a top tip that can obliterate an interior for less than 50p and takes less than 30 seconds. keep up the good work
WOW, some people find this interesting, really!
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