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Hi, Dow at the Firehouse Detail Shop and we're cleaning and detailing the inside of this
car as professionals. I'm about to start a segment where we're going to use compressed
air to clean vents, underneath seats, and nooks and crannies. Now, I'm going to use
in combination with compressed air a brush. If you could give me that brush, I'd sure
appreciate it. What I'm doing here is I haven't vacuumed the car yet. I'm going to now basically
start blowing dirt around the car. So I've got my safety glasses on, I've got different
brushes that I'm going to use here to agitate, loosen the dirt. One of the best places to
start for me is really I'm just going to jump in here and I like to start up high and just
start knocking dirt and debris out of nooks and crannies.Yes it's stirring it up, yes
it's making everything dirty, but that's the first stages, you know, we're probably going
to make this car a lot dirtier before we get it clean because we're going to get dirt out
of hidden places and get it out into the open so we can either vacuum it up, or wipe it
up with a towel. I'll literally start going around every nook and cranny in this car between
compressed air and a brush to get things going. I won't use the compressed air too much because
I don't want to make it so you can't hear me on the microphone. But you can kind of
get the idea here as I go through these vents I can blow them free and loosen the dirt at
the same time. You want to back a little ways, or I can actually put this vent right down
in these areas and push dirt back down in. Gale? Sometimes I've even heard people turning
their defrosters on or their air vents so that after we've loosened it, it blows it
out before they vacuum it up. The worst thing that could happen is that the customer gets
in their car, they turn it on, they turn their heater on and they get covered in a cloud
of dust because we've taken the dirt and pushed it in. So you might even want to turn that
on, your car on and circulate some air, get things going. But I'm going to do that, clean
vents, be cautious with radio buttons, control buttons with pressured air. You can literally
flip a button off or push a button off. So keep that in the distance when you're cleaning
with compressed air. It's a powerful tool but you can also do some damage inside of
the car. So we want to be really cautious because it's a, we don't want to damage anyones
car. Now, I've cleaned, now that I've gone through the console, the top area, I can go
through crevices in the seat, and then I also, I love to use compressed air to clean out
underneath a seat. I'm actually going to go between the crevices and areas, again before
I vacuum, and I'm just going to start moving dirt from front to back. So I'm going to go
under the seat and start pushing dirt that's under the seat or even the crevices to the
back of the car where it's easily vacuumed up. With that, we'll then move on to carpet.
I can use this now in the front, then I'll move to the back. One of the hardest places
to clean on a passenger car is that back window. There's bugs, there's dirt, it's hard to get
a vacuum in there, so compressed air can be really valuable there as well.