How Did The Deal Clean My Is 200?

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When I had my first look at the IS 200 which I bought 5 days later, I was astonished that the car was so clean. The engine compartment looked like NEW. Yep, I really mean NEW. there was no dust, no rust, no sign of water/oil leakage, no grease. The brake fluid tank seemed to be glossy. All the Screws were shiny, as NEW. the pipes looked great.

I even checked the hidden areas which are hard to reach, for example, the area under the exhaust pipe, again, they were PERFECTLY CLEAN.

The cockpit looked perfect as well. Even the joint hinge of the doors looked shinny.

considering this is a 1999 IS 200, I don't it could be that clean. Does anyone know how did the deal clean this car?

Afering buying this IS200, I planned to sell my Citroen XSara. In order to make the same kind of astonishing effect, I bought a lot of cleaning tools and chemicals from Halfords to try to clean it as clean as my IS200. After working on my Citroen XSara for about 16 hours, I finally learnt that this mission was impossible. You can't clean some area unless you dis-asssemble it. I guess, it will take me at least 64 hours to reach the same class of clean as my IS 200.

So, how could my dealer do that considering the labour is quite expensive? Sometime later, I will have to clean it again and those experience are valuable.

[Kremmen]

I do believe they use a steam cleaning gun ?

I was amazed once to see the steam clean gun being used on the interior fabric of a cars doors and i wondered how long that was going to take to dry and why the electric window switches didn't start to fizzle.

The one that amazes me is the paintwork. How do they remove all those chips quickly and easily at presumably low cost ?

[aski]

I do believe they use a steam cleaning gun ?

I was amazed once to see the steam clean gun being used on the interior fabric of a cars doors and i wondered how long that was going to take to dry and why the electric window switches didn't start to fizzle.

The one that amazes me is the paintwork. How do they remove all those chips quickly and easily at presumably low cost ?

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I was in the valeting trade for about 7 years and believe me its hard graft. But they dont take as long as you think to clean up. I was the best in the business and to get a car from averagely dirty to showroom pristine would take me about 3 hours. This would include machine polishing the whole car where neccessary. I advise getting a pressure washer- a cheap karcher for about 40 quid should do the trick, its all I use now. You may also need some traffic film remover (TFR) try Halfords, for the engine bay, sills and door/boot shuts. Spray the TFR on and leave about 5 minutes then blast off.

Car always comes up a treat after :D

Then get moving with the polishing thats the hard part :yack: