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Clean your matts, if you dare...

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  • 06-05-2010 11:50pm
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    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users Posts: 9,662 ✭✭✭


    NCT is on Monday, so i've started a mega-valet of the car a few days in advance.

    First up is the carpets. What's worrying about these pictures is that the matts were perfectly clean apart from a few scuffs, and I had cleaned them roughly every 6-8 weeks with upholstery foam for the last two years.

    I thought it was time to give them a bath with very hot water, washing powder and lots of elbow grease with a nailbrush. Bloody hell, 10 years of dirt below!

    First round of scrubbing:

    htds001.jpg

    htds002.jpg

    Rinsed the matts, emptied and refilled the bath for round two:

    htds003.jpg

    htds004.jpg

    Did the same again for a third time round:

    htds005.jpg

    Finally rinsed them off and now they're drying in the greenhouse :D .

    Unbelievable amount of dirt came out of the drivers matt, no matter how much I scrubbed and rinsed the water coming out was filthy. Scrub & rinse, scrub & rinse, scrub & rinse. I gave up after a while, it was clean enough!

    As I say, the matts are always kept clean, its amazing what comes out with a proper clean though. Makes me wonder what the carpets are like...

    Stay tuned for after pics!


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    #2
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    I'd hate to see your shoes!


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    #3
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users Posts: 9,662 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    This is the bizarre thing, i go nuts if anyone gets in with dirty shoes and my own are always spotless. Matts are never visibly dirty, but I guess they were rotten!


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    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    Just stick mine in the machine like. Use a deck brush for the rubber mats on the other car.


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    Anan1
    Registered Users Posts: 22,818 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Washing machines can easily tear mats, the water can get trapped by the centrifugal action of the spin and rip holes in them.


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    H8GHOTI
    Registered Users Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭H8GHOTI


    I hope you pass your NCT


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    #7
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users Posts: 9,662 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    I hear they test matt cleanliness with the "tongue test".


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    DUBLINHITMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 790 ✭✭✭DUBLINHITMAN


    i use a george wet/dry vac
    430 euro here
    shipped to my door for 230 euro from the uk
    here's a 50/50
    [URL="[URL=http://s642.photobucket.com/albums/uu146/DUBLINHITMAN/?action=view&current=fordmondeo022.jpg][IMG]http://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu146/DUBLINHITMAN/th_fordmondeo022.jpg[/IMG][/URL]"][/url]th_fordmondeo022.jpg


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    #9
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users Posts: 9,662 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Nice! Thats what I need for the carpets. Or a giant bath...


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    DUBLINHITMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 790 ✭✭✭DUBLINHITMAN


    lol
    I can imagine me saying to a customer can i use your bath love lol

    i reakon if you did your matts like that with the bath thing twice a year they,d always be
    clean
    looking forward to seen the dry picks
    fairplay to you buddy


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    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,141 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    I would have just bought new mats... :pac:


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    #12
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users Posts: 9,662 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    You know how much matts are for a 7 series? Nailbrushes are cheaper!


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    CaraFawn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 314 ✭✭CaraFawn


    Nice, they probably do look a lot better now.

    The thing about the NCT is that since they do not care about your car, you will probably have to detail it again right after :(...Last year when I went for mine, it came back with white spots all over, some sort of powder, on the steering wheel etc...


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    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    You know how much matts are for a 7 series? Nailbrushes are cheaper!
    That's what you get for owning a 7. :D Here's to waiting for the dry pics and passing the NCT. o/


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    Hogzy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    Oh dear god. Iv got the exact same grey mats as you except mine is a coupe!
    Might give that ago!

    EDIT: just forgot i have no bath in the house :(


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    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users Posts: 9,662 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    CaraFawn wrote: »
    Nice, they probably do look a lot better now.

    The thing about the NCT is that since they do not care about your car, you will probably have to detail it again right after :(...Last year when I went for mine, it came back with white spots all over, some sort of powder, on the steering wheel etc...

    Could it have just been talc from the inside of latex gloves?
    Hogzy wrote: »
    Oh dear god. Iv got the exact same grey mats as you except mine is a coupe!
    Might give that ago!

    EDIT: just forgot i have no bath in the house :(

    Do give it a go, even out on the drive with a bucket of soapy water and a brush, foam cleaner isn't enough. Even if they're clean, they ain't! I also got a strong whiff of fish with the first clean, dissappeared after all the other rinses.


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,422 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    If you've ever used one of those carpet cleaners you can hire and looked at the state of the water that comes out of them when used on what you thought was a not too dirty carpet in your house, you wouldn't be surprised.


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    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,470 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Rubber mats FTW :D


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    Forest Master
    Registered Users Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Forest Master


    squod wrote: »
    Just stick mine in the machine like

    Like what?


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    Jumpy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    Forest Master wrote: »
    Like what?

    like Cark biy!


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,944 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    @VoodooMelon - hopefully they haven't shrunk on you!
    bazz26 wrote: »
    I would have just bought new mats... :pac:
    My E39 mats were IIRC about €150 five years ago!


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    old_aussie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    Why, is it necessary to clean the mats, do the NCT inspectors get down and sniff the mats or something?


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    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    CaraFawn wrote: »
    Nice, they probably do look a lot better now.

    The thing about the NCT is that since they do not care about your car, you will probably have to detail it again right after :(...Last year when I went for mine, it came back with white spots all over, some sort of powder, on the steering wheel etc...

    Are you sure it was an NCT centre and not a crack house you left the car at? :D


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    TestTransmission
    Registered Users Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    old_aussie wrote: »
    Why, is it necessary to clean the mats, do the NCT inspectors get down and sniff the mats or something?

    If you're gonna have it clean for the NCT ya might aswell have it proper clean


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    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    Did the same again for a third time round:

    htds005.jpg

    Did you get caught short in the middle of doing this one?? :D


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    ToxicPaddy
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,764 Mod ✭✭✭✭ToxicPaddy


    oh good god!!!

    Dont show the missus those pics.. she'll kill ya for destroying her bath!!!! :D


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    Tea 1000
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Tea 1000


    http://www.tailored-carmats.co.uk/bmw/sc-7-series-e38.html?z=car-mats

    Prices here seem quite good, they're proper fitted mats, and offer a range of colours and fabric quality.
    Good job on the cleaning though, Nothing like clean mats to help lift the inside of a car!
    I hate rubber mats, and I hate generic mats.


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    Gilligan.Mark
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭Gilligan.Mark


    Fantastic job cleaning the mates. Some serious dedication!

    It's good to see someone who takes care and appreciates their car. You can learn alot from a man, by how he treats his car.


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    #29
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users Posts: 9,662 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    ToxicPaddy wrote: »
    oh good god!!!

    Dont show the missus those pics.. she'll kill ya for destroying her bath!!!! :D

    Keep it on the down low. ;)
    Gilligan.Mark wrote: »
    Fantastic job cleaning the mates. Some serious dedication!

    Yeh, I love cleaning my mates, some job getting them all in the bath at the same time. :pac:


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    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    How did you get the excess water out of them or did you?

    A good idea to do this would be to use a rolling pin :)


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    #31
    TestTransmission
    Registered Users Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    I had a rugdoctor for a day as I was moving house and I ran it over the mats,it was crazy how filthy they were.Goes to show all that carpet cleaner for cars doesnt do much good.


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