1998 GMC Jimmy (Trashed interior)

Since I've been doing a lot of cars (8-10) a week, I've really neglected a lot of my families cars. This was my first car when I was 15, paid $1,000 from my uncle and then $2,500 for a new GM trans. Sold it to my dad when I was 16 for $5,000, lol. Its now one of the farm "beaters" and used for everything around the farm. It hauls hay carts, car trailers, anything you can put in the back, driven all across the midwest (sister snowboards) so its seen its fair share of abuse. It has 220,000 on and probably hasn't been cleaned since I sold it except for the occasional drive through wash in the summer. I did this at night (3 all nighters) in one of our smallest shops as all the rest are full of equipment/trucks so excuse the darkness/haze from the heat/water in some of the pics.

Exterior
2BM with Optimum car wash and grout sponge
Wheels/wheel wells/undercarriage cleaned with degreaser (tires scrubbed with brush) but rims/wheel wells/undercarriage just got rinsed after degreaser (I wasn't to concerned)
Jambs cleaned with degreaser

Interior
All interior plastic and door seals cleaned with Meguiars APC (4:1) and srubbed with a toothbrush and a swissvax brush look alike
Vacuumed with 6hp shop vac and brushed a ton
Spots pretreated with Folex
All carpets/seats sprayed down with Zep Premium Carpet and Upholstery Shampoo (excellent stuff, no foam really, cleans awesome)
Extracted with the BLGM till it all rinsed out
Went back over with the shop vac till carpets were about dry

Where I began...



























After hours of vacuuming, brushing, vacuuming, brushing...







BLGM tank, can't remember how many I emptied, but a lot...




And finished...





















And the mats back in





Its no where near 100%, but its a lot better. Yes there still dirt in places and stains in places, but its not a show car. Didn't polish it as it wasn't worth it. Finally I'm done.

 

Wow, was that interior dirty. I think you did a pretty damn good job on that one :applause:

 

Great job. An excellent daily driver clean up! :applause: Thanks for the write up and taking the time to post pictures. :thumb:

 

Interesting story and a great job. Thanks for sharing...:thumb:

 

Nice turn around, that reminds me I need to clean out my rust bucket Jeep...mmm...:shead:..maybe later :whistle:

 

Impressive work :thumb:

A trainwreck every now n then is a good thing :giggle:

 

Great job!! So how does it make you feel selling it to your dad for $1500. more than what you paid for it? lol

 

Damn, what a transformation. Great job!

 

Good job! That interior was filth. Looks much better now.

 

lol. Well when I was 16 with the extra cash I thought I was in heaven...if I only knew I'd be cleaning it now looking like this, lol. Thank god I bought the floor mats when I had it, though they didn't do much, lol.

And thank you a ton guys. Its no where near the work on here (I wish I could polish like some of you), but I do what I can on my college budget. :drinking2:

 

All i can say is you need a metal for that job what a turn around on that suv

 

Great work! :applause:

 

Amazing work! That Jimmy was TRASHED is an understatement

 

Talk about dirty... Great job there!

 

That thing was so messed up. Great turn-around.

Buy some 303 Aerospace Protectant for the dash/all trim pieces. I guarantee you'll love it and will make your clean interior 10x better. Waxing the outside would be a plus too :thumb:

 

It probably even smells better in there too.

I think that, sometimes, quality interior work doesn't get the credit it deserves. Perfect paint makes for great photographs, but interior work can be downright disgusting. Like this one was.

 

Thanks a ton guys! Very much appreciated! I love doing interiors, wish I had a real extractor, but the BLGM and shop vac work quite well.

Most of the trim I did throw 303 on, just was in a hurry to take pics as I had to move it as we had a combine coming in.

And yes it smells so much better!!

 

Rusty? Nica, how come? It should have a few coats of Crystal Rock and have showroom shine!

 

Good thing they had the mats, that could have been a bit worse :crasy:

 

lol...na, I purchased the vehicle of a business partner, the vehicle was used as a company vehicle and Jeeps are notorious for rust under the door handles, at the very bottom panels..ect..ect...neeedless to say the poor Jeep was neglected so rust settled in on it before I came along. But the darn thing wont die, the engine has over 300,000KM and it's still going strong, it does great in winter, so I drive it through winter :thumb: I neglect the poor thing though, this detail reminded me of my poor Jeep.