I worked on cleaning the interior of the car. I was able to borrow a steam cleaner from a coworker. The steam cleaner saved me many hours of work. I had to spend a couple of hour experimenting to find the best way to get the car cleaned. I also watched a bunch of youtube videos on steam cleaning a car interior.

Headliner was vacuumed then steam cleaned with the brush attach covered in a microfiber cloth. A couple of big tips that I leaned watching videos are make sure the headliner is in good shape and not loose before you think about using steam, second move the steamer around a lot so you don’t build too much heat and water. I still need to go back and vacuum one more time.

The dash and floor pan were cleaned with the steamer’s nozzle and wiped off with a microfiber cloth. This method worked really well getting in tight places as well as cleaning the dash switches.

The seats were the hardest to get clean. I ended up spraying the seats down with diluted Simple Green then using a house hair brush to lather it up and finally wiping it off with a microfiber cloth. After that I used the steam cleaner with the small scrub brush attachment and finally wiped it down with a microfiber cloth.

The door panels required a combination of the seat method and the nozzle.

I still need to shampoo the rear wagon carpet.

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I have a total of 12 hours in cleaning the interior. I have 1-2 hours left to clean the rear carpet and vacuum the headliner. Then there will be time getting a junkyard carpet, cleaning it, and getting the car put back together.