Fire extinguisher gets into a fight with a Subaru Forester.......

Fire Extinguisher and Subaru Forester gone wrong - we fix it.

Got a call one morning from a new customer asking if we were able to do anything to fix her car which was vandalized. Always up for a challenge I said sure what happened. She said her car was vandalized with a fire extinguisher. I said wow that's not good. If you can text me some of the photos showing the damage I can assess it from there......what I didn't expect was how bad it would be, (see below) that being said 30 plus hours later we were able to get it back to a health condition, safe for her and her family to drive in again.


Exterior
- Wheels and tires cleaned
- Wheel wells were cleaned up
- Washed
- Door jambs were cleaned up
- Clayed/NanoSkin Autoscrub
- Dried
- Tires dressed
- Sonax Paint Cleaner
- Auto Finesse Tough Coat
- Rubber and Plastics Treated
- Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned
- Exhaust tips cleaned
- Engine Cleaned
- Engine Dressed
- Headlights restored using only Sonax Paint Cleaner and sealed

Interior
- Remove pet hair with rubber pet hair brush
- Vac - deep cleaning
- Extract interior carpet and just about everything possible
- Steam clean the seats
- Wipe interior down with 1Z einszett Deep Plastic Cleaner
- Dress it with 1Z einszett Vinyl Rubber Care to bring back the plastic
- Glass cleaned
- replace the cabin filter
- 1Z einszett Klima Cleaner and 1Z einszett Klima Cleaner ETU used to clean up the HVAC - to make sure the family is safe and breathing clean air.
- replace worn out floor mats with OEM Subaru Weather Mats

Products used:
Optimum No Rinse
Sonax High Gloss Shampoo
Auto Finesse Oblitarate
Sonax Multi Star
Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner
Uber Yellow Poly Clay Bar
NanoSkin Autoscrub Fine Grade Wash Mitt
Sonax Paint Cleaner
Auto Finesse Tough Coat
Adam's Super VRT
Sonax Plastic Trim Restorer
1Z einszett Deep Plastic Cleaner
1Z einszett Cockpit
1Z einszett Klima Cleaner
1Z einszett Klima Cleaner ETU
1Z Vinyl Rubber Care
Adam’s In and Out Spray

Tools used
Steamer - Dupray
Extracter - Mytee
Uber Wool Wash Mitt
Uber Quick Detail MF Towels
Uber All Purpose MF Towels
Rupes BigFoot LHR 15ES Random Orbital Polisher
Uber Green Foam Pad
Fenix TK35
Kranzle Pressure Washer
Uber Foam Canon
2 Grit Guard Buckets with Caddies
Adam's Firehose Nozzle
Metro Air Force Blaster
Metro Jumbo Vac N Blow Car Vac

Interior Before
These were the photos we received for the quote, the parking lot were the car wash stored - did as much as they could to remove the loose easy to get to residue, we were hired to do the rest.



Residue from the fire extinguisher was lodged into every nook and cranny of this car.







Door jambs and sills were filled with fire extinguisher residue.



All personal belongings were removed and boxed up for the owner.




Lots of embedded dog hair.
































Floor mats were in extremely bad shape - we gave it a go with the Uber Interior Orbital Brush Attachment and various cleaners - 1Z einszett Deep Plastic Cleaner - improvements but at the end we decided to buy new OEM Subaru Weather Mats for the customer.
















This was the cabin filter - no words for this one guys.


Brand new cabin filter for healthy clean air.


We did the HVAC cleaning 2 times once with the 1Z einszett Klima Cleaner ETU, and the next day with the 1Z einszett Klima Cleaner Pro



After shots of the interior clean up.








































Brand new Subaru Weather Mats to give it a fresh newer look - a nice treat for the customer at pick up.

 

Exterior Before



We received the Subaru Forester after a night of strong rains, so we were lucky that the rain removed some of the loose dust from the fire extinguisher residue.
Test spot trying to figure out the best solution to remove all the dust from the powder from the fire extinguisher - best solution was the Sonax Paint Cleaner removed all the dullness out of the paint and brought a nice shine back.




















The headlights in pretty bad shape dull and oxidized.



Wheels are caked on with years of brake dust.








Before shot of the motor




Leaves being built up in the cowl/engine bay












Foamed/Rinsed/Washed


During

Take a look at this 50/50 shot believe it or not that was the paint after it wash washed/clayed and cleaned up of all the dust from the extinguisher - damaged definitely done. The left side cleaned up with Sonax Paint Cleaner with the Rupes Bigfoot LHR15ES and Uber Green Pad.
Impressed we were - Fun Fact: Did you know the paint cleaner has components of Sonax 3/6 in it? That paint was cleaned up and drastically improved but remember this was not a paint correction detail.


Sonax Plastic Trim Restorer used on the dull/aged/oxidized plastics and trim on the Forester. - Plastics were cleaned with Sonax Multistar prior to dressing.


Various 50/50 shots of the headlight clean up and yes again all we needed was Sonax Paint Cleaner in this particular case.





After shot of the headlight rest



After































Hope you enjoyed this one if you have any questions please post below or email me at phil@detailersdomain.com

 

I have to be honest. I am more impressed with this detail then the higher end details you do. The customer must have been ecstatic when they picked it up.

 

hope the owner keeps it like this.

amazing turn around.

 

I love details like this. Amazing work and what a turn around. I am sure the owners were shocked that it looked that good after a cleaning. What steps did you use on the wheels?

 

Wow, incredible job in bring this car back to life!

 

Impressive outcome for sure! I'm surpised at the level of damage done to the paint just by a fire extinguisher discharge?

What the method of chemical residue removal all done with wet towels and steamers?

Cheers,
GREG

 

Thanks guys, we appreciate it.

Greg,

Did you mean the paint or the interior for the steamer etc?

On the paint we worked on it just like any other job, wash, clay, polish etc.

On the interior we vacuumed out everything we can and then we extracted out the carpets, let them dry, to see if anything came back up. Then followed by steam.

Then the traditional wipe down with 1Z Deep Plastic Cleaner and Cockpit.

 

Insanely awesome turnaround.

 

Amazing work that vehicle hasn't looked that good in years!! Maybe someone ought a hit it with an extinguisher again in two years . Great work as always Phil.

 

Very impressive turn around on the interior. I liked the extra step with treating the vents and replacing the cabin filter.






Limny

 

New and exotic car details are all fine and good, but this is the real meat ant potatoes. This really shows your skillset. Just awesome!

 

don't worry guys we will have some of the easy no brainer super car and exotic cars up soon. LOL

 

You're a freakin' miracle worker, Phil. Holy crap, this write-up.

 

Exotics look good even when dirty.

Making an everyday kid-taxi and grocery-cart like this look good takes a lot of dedication and persistence, not many detailers would have taken this on.
Impressive to say the least.

 

Phil and Team -

Absolutely beautiful, perfect, professional Results !!!

And this car was a PIG before the fire extinguisher !!!

Lucky for them, someone saved this car from being crushed for violating the Pure Food and Drug Act...

Im thinking, give these people a year and it will be back to the condition before the "accident"...

Thanks for sharing..
Dan F

 

great work...how did you do that engine bay? those subarus worry me seems everything out in the open...seems like a nightmare to get down in all those cracks and not damage anything. friend has a sti with a lot of aftermarket parts i may be detailing before a car show

 

Unbelievable detail right here, amazing transformation!

 

These are HANDS DOWN my favorite details. I'm shocked to see what the befores looked like. A Subaru vandalized? What's next?

Super work Phil & team...

 

OMG! As a guy who had an '04 Forester and now a '10, I can feel your pain. WHAT a turnaround.

Looking at the pics brought back memories of the hard-to-get at places where all the shizzle hit.

Maybe a good thing (for the car) this happened. Got to feel some of the Phil love all the exoticars are getting.

Great pics and good introduction to (even) more great products and what they can actually do.

A very good job done gentleman.