Cobblers's T25 Multivan (also T6 interior rebuild)

[cobblers]

I nipped down with the little wet vac today and made a start on the rear carpet. Hoovered it really thoroughly, then spent an hour at it with the wet vac, made about 3 or 4 passes and the water was still coming out a bit grubby and it didn't look much cleaner. Definitely very stained with coolant under the left hand rear seat, but the rest has escaped the coolant damage luckily.

I don't really want to replace it with some cheap household crap from Fat Jeffs Carpets if I can avoid it, 

I gave it a blow off with one of them cyloney airline carpet blower outer things, mainly to dry it off a bit and see if it improved a bit, but about 1kg of sandy soily muck flew out of it, so I decided to bite the bullet and take it out of the van and go nuclear on it with the pressure washer.

Still grim:

 

I'd run out of upholstery cleaner by now so I used snowfoam.

Left it to soak for 20 minutes, went at it with the spirally jet wash nozzle then hoovered it up with the big carpet cleaner. I felt like one of them blokes on the youtube videos that clean rugs (that they've purposefully tipped a load of soil over about 20 minutes previous), it was mega satisfying,

However, I kept doing it and the water kept coming out manky. I jet washed so much soil of it that the stuff I tipped out of it totally blocked the U bend in the industrial sink and I had to start tipping it down the bog instead!  I just kept going at it - One application of detergent, brush it around, go at it with the spiraly jet wash to drive the sand out of the carpet, wet vac it dry, jet wash again, then dry (repeat 5 or 6 times before adding more snowfoam). In total I did 5 rounds, the water never came quite clean but I ran out of time and soap.

 

In total I've put about 150/200 litres of hot water through this. It looked a lot better, the pile has come back a lot better (it was quite matted) but you can never really tell until it's dry.  Dozens of tanks came out like this:

it must be the first time it's ever had a proper clean like this. It looked mostly fine really, I was so surprised how well it hid the muck. Very satisfying!

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Looks a lot better! Time will tell though, you never know til it's dry. It's propped on a few pallets infront of a massive fan overnight:

 

[Asimo]

Rubber mats.

[Matty]

Feels like theres almost no point in selling this now. Efforts gone in, fondness is there....

[Hertz]

I had about 5 goes at it as well. Think someone spilt oil on it in the past. Hopefully you have banished the dirt for good👍