Just a fun little video of me washing my car about 2 years ago.
Archive for December 30, 2010
How To: Deep Clean your Carpet on a Budget
So imagine you are headed to work with your morning cup of Joe, and you hit a bump you couldn’t see. #@!**.


It’s okay we all have bad days, so you get home and call the first person you know can clean this mess up. Here I will go over the steps to clean the interior of your car, clean or not so clean.
Items Used
Shop Vac
Bissell Little Green Clean Machine – LGCM
Folex Carpet Stain Spray
Oxi-Clean
2 Buckets
Interior Scrub Brush
Microfiber Towels
1. (Optional) This step makes the rest 1000x easier. Remove the seats out of the car. Usually it only takes a couple of bolts.
2. Give the interior a through vacuuming.
3. Pre-treat all of the stained areas with your folex spray. Make sure to give the areas a liberal spray so that lifting and removing the stains will be easier.
4. While the pre-treatment is working itself in, fill your 2 buckets with HOT water. Water from the tap will do just fine, no need to boil it.
5. Take one of the buckets with hot water and add 1 ounce of oxi-clean/16 ounces of water. Let the oxi-clean dissolve into this bucket, and leave the other bucket just plain with water.
6. While the oxi-clean is dissolving, take your interior scrub brush and scrub the pre-treated areas. Give them about 15-20 second scrub each area.
7. With your hands, or a small bottle, scoop out some oxi/h2o solution and pour it into the affected area. Work one area at a time. Make sure you get enough solution in the area, and then start scrubbing. Once you think you have scrubbed enough, scrub some more, and then suck up all of the solution with your LGCM.
8. Now take some of your water only, and pour that in the same area, then suck up the water with your LGCM. This is your rinse cycle. If the water coming up from the carpet is totally clear, then move on to the next area. If not, repeat step #7. solution/scrub/rinse until you are happy with the results. The water coming up from the carpet will most likely never be totally clear, but it also shouldn’t look like chocolate milk, you be the judge.
9. When doing your final rinse cycle, suck up all the water you can, your carpet/seats should be moist not wet.
10. When you are finished with all of the areas spray febreeze under your seats, and under your floor mats (if applicable)
When you are finally done you should have something that looks similar to this.


Welcome to MDetail
Hey there!
Welcome to MDetail. Just to give you a quick intro to this site, MDetail is all about improving everyone’s knowledge about car-care.
Ever since I was 12 years old I have been washing cars. My Dad had planned on giving me his 1987 Honda prelude with over 300,000 miles on it, but the paint and interior were in great condition. When I would go to his house about once a month, I would spend a half day or so washing, waxing, and caring for the car. Over the years my knowledge on car care has expanded more than I could have ever imagined. This love for car care turned into an obsession, then turned into a business. I don’t do as many paid detail jobs as I used to (I have a full time job), but I still love it just as much. I wanted one place that the everyday consumer could come to for advice, techniques, tips and an unbiased opinion on car-care products.
Please be patient over the next few weeks as I work to get much needed content on the site. I would also like to invite you to contact me for any questions you have, or any how to’s you would like me to produce, or reviews on products you would like to see. I hope to see you around soon!
