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Offline beastie_3

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How NOT to clean your Mercedes interior...
« on: October 16, 2011, 01:49:24 pm »
http://jalopnik.com/5848011/how-not-to-detail-the-interior-of-your-new-mercedes

If the detail shop wont do it, what makes you think it is still a good idea?

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Re: How NOT to clean your Mercedes interior...
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2011, 04:03:18 pm »
My guess is that he sold a lot of drugs to be able to buy a car like that, then started using a lot of drugs before he decided to clean up the interior. Obviously he did not earn the money to spend on a car like that or he would have been more particular about the way it was treated. I'm so tight with the money I earn I don't even go to car washes, I wash them at home cheaper. Couldn't even image taking a pressure washer to the inside of a car worth what about $60,000???  :o
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Re: How NOT to clean your Mercedes interior...
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2011, 06:48:48 pm »
     Maybe he just like to sit in water all the time.  What can't a guy have his dreams ?   ???
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Re: How NOT to clean your Mercedes interior...
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2011, 06:55:51 pm »
just imagine the horrid smell after. it will take A LONG TIME for that water to evaporate, if at all.

I wash my own vehicles because the brushes at the car wash scratch paint, plus you dont know what is on them from the previous user.

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Re: How NOT to clean your Mercedes interior...
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2011, 01:20:21 pm »
I wash my own vehicles because the brushes at the car wash scratch paint, plus you dont know what is on them from the previous user.

I use the power washer and the vacuums and what now at the car wash but I do everything else at home.
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Re: How NOT to clean your Mercedes interior...
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2011, 07:37:48 pm »
That's called having more money than sense.
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Re: How NOT to clean your Mercedes interior...
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2011, 11:52:06 am »
Maybe I'm the stupid one.......... I honestly believed I had seen it all before watchin the video!
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Re: How NOT to clean your Mercedes interior...
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2011, 08:45:08 am »
WOW!!!!!
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Re: How NOT to clean your Mercedes interior...
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2011, 06:42:21 pm »
I have to admit something. I have done this- To an old farm truck and only the floorboards that were metal, but a Mercedes Benz, no. That car now has mildew under the carpet. And spraying the electronic dash, terrible thing for the electronics. I wonder what the underlying reasoning was behind this ?

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Re: How NOT to clean your Mercedes interior...
« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2011, 08:19:49 pm »
Maybe it was his wifes car and he just caught her with his best friend
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Re: How NOT to clean your Mercedes interior...
« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2011, 05:55:59 pm »
ill admit to doing this to a full size 81 jeep cherokee.  but that was after getting it stuck in the mud so deep that after i got it pulled out the water line was 3/4 up the windshield.  but it didnt have anything power other then steering and breaks ( i think they where options) vinal seats and rubber floor mats to cover the floor boards with.  i payed 500 for it and and i think even the am radio was an option along with the 4 speed. 
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Re: How NOT to clean your Mercedes interior...
« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2011, 06:09:18 pm »
Did it with the 2005 Kenworth, but it has the real simple rubber floor interior, and we didn't use a power washer. Geez. I was also careful to stay low with the water. No splash, and nothing above the floor got wet.