Light cloth interior detail - e46 318 BMW

[Jim@WD]

Something a little different for you this time..

e46 BMW 318 – Interior Detail – Light grey upholstery

Car in question:

The owner had seen images of a previous e46 that I had worked on.. Leaving it looking something like this:

This one however was in a little worse condition. I received these images on email a few weeks back:

Product
• 303 aerospace protectant (UV protection for dash/plastics etc)
• AutoSmart G101 (all purpose cleaner)
• AutoSmart Bio Brisk (interior/upholstery cleaner)
• Warm water

• Lots of microfibre cloths
• Meguiars triple action detail brush
• Meguiars Slide-lock brush
• Various detail brushes
• VAX 6131 wet ‘n dry hoover
• Vikan upholstery brush
• Cocktail sticks

Inspection..

 

[Jim@WD]

First job was to remove any litter and brush all surface dirt to the floor.

After this, a gentle scrub to the carpets to loosen the pile followed by a thorough hoover.

Loaded the VAX 6131 with clean warm water, armed myself with Bio-Brisk and a few microfibres then got to work..

Carpets first.

Dirty water collected after the passenger front & rear carpet.

Driver’s side looking pretty rough after the hoover:

 

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Side-wall completed first..

Then the rest of..

And the water:

Fresh water installed, dirty water poured away in readiness for seats.

Tackled the front seat first. Before:

Progress:

After:

Sun’s out; makes a change!

Ouch:

 

[Jim@WD]

Audi Support Vehicle holding up nicely:

50/50 on the front passenger seat bolster:

Water after seats:

Doorcards wiped down and scrubbed where applicable, other interior plastics and surfaces cleaned. Seatbelt pulley, sun-visors, centre-console, pedals etc..

Another vac given to remove some surface debris and we’re nearly there..

As you can see in these shots, the heavily stained areas were not 100% removed..

Drivers seat still a little patchy:

And the lower-centre section of the rear bench had a stain that wasn’t fully removed.. Quite an improvement though!

Before:

After:

 

[Jim@WD]

Passenger foot-well before and after:

And finished:

 

[Jim@WD]

Total time, ~4 hours

Thanks for reading.

Jim