My carpets (driver and passenger) are looking packed down and dirty.. there not all stained or anything like that there just showing there age..should I try and clean them myself? What should I use? or should I go and get them done by some1 who knows what there doing?

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I went at my carpets with Oxyclean, a shop vac and a steam cleaner. The steam cleaner wounly conform enough but the places it did were stainless and had good texture, unfornunately it was mostly under the seats, which you have to take out if you are revamping the tired interior.

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Colin Finkle
87 Sport Coupe Camaro, 5.0 L V8

 

I just did mine. I took my carpet right out, but as long as you pop the seats out, you should be able to clean most of it really well with a steam cleaner.

 

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I highly recommend doing it yourself. I've had it professionally done and have steam cleaned it, and both were a waste of time and money. I've found the best way is to take out the carpet, lay it in the driveway, and run laundry detergent through it with a hose (use detergent with some type of color-hold action so it doesn't get bleached). Scrub it with a soft brush that isn't so stiff that it frays the material. Do this a few times and I think you'll notice a huge difference in both appearance and odor. In the pic below, the black piece was cleaned and re-dyed by me, and replaced the gray that I had re-done "professionally" only 2 years before. When I got the black, it was faded, moldy, and smelled awful--it could pass as new now.

 

I cleaned my carpet myself, using something called "Power Foam." It worked REALLY good, it got out everything on my carpet. First, obviously, I vacuumed it with a shop vac. I refrained from steam cleaning the carpet, simply because there's nothing underneath it... I didn't know if that would affect the metal under it. I am going to steam clean my seats, however. The interior in my car wasn't very bad to begin with, but it doesn't hurt to clean it up a bit.

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1986 Camaro IROC-Z
Code 23 Paint ("IROC Blue")
305 TPI w/ Auto Tranny
Grant GT Steering Wheel
New A/C Motor!

 

Simple green and a soft brush works well. If you have any stains, use some shaving cream--the cheap stuff works really well).

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