Most missed areas !!!

brake and gas pedals.

 

I'd hope you are leaving grease in the jambs. Do your customers complain about their doors squeaking after a while?
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The most missed areas I see are the vanity mirrors on sun visors, the shift 'track' on an automatic transmission vehicle and the B pillar jambs.

 

i love this thread to Fminus!!!!

 

Speaking of squels...

After i clean my wheels with P21S wheel gel my brakes sequeal for two weeks afterwards. Its impossible to not get some cleaner on the rotars.. but i rinse them heavily? I have started using a little brake parts cleaner on the rotors after I clean my wheels just to reduce the sequel. I have ceramic pads if it matters. Are others having these problems? Do customers ever complain about this?

 

Pektel & Flux: I re-grease the areas in a very controlled manner.. The thing is that over time the grease begins to attract debris and turn black.. new grease does not have that dirty color to it and and plus, when I re-apply the grease I do so in a very controlled manner to only the areas that need grease as opposed to the factory that just slops it on

 

:applause2: Bravo. I'd expect nothing less from you!

 

What I notice a lot is the insides of wheels. I know brake dust is a killer. In fact a couple of months ago someone commented on how clean the insides my wheels were and wanted to know what I used on them.

 

Nice, Jason! I knew you would do the proper thing. I have never touched that area because I didn't want to remove the grease. I don't know why I didn't think to just reapply it!

 

Yeesh, I'm guilty of every one of those. Just when I think I'm getting to be a good detailer, someone starts a "most missed areas..." thread, and I'm back to noob-central.

Great stuff... printed for my next interior.

 

Crap. MORE stuff I need to add to the list. But in my defense, I've just now added interiors to my details. I've been exterior only til now.

 

Bump
Here it is rtrt2889

 

Okay, thanks. Hmm, very helpful.

Time to keep a lookout out for those areas. :nod:

 

Tail pipes.

 

AGREE - This is a great thread...Learn something new everyday...:thumb:

 

Hey this is a good thread.

I think I'm a bit of an interior nerd, so here's some I try to be mindful of...

- Between the steering wheel and the steering column. When you steer the car, you shouldn't see dust or dirt in the area concealed by having the steering wheel straight

- The back side of the rear view mirror - the plastic part that faces the windshield

- First aid kits and/or tool kits. Mostly found in the trunk lids of BMWs and the rear decks of Mercedes.

- If there's a switch that moves from side to side - like the (L / R) selector on most side mirror controls - people often miss cleaning both sides of that

- The channel the handbrake lever slides through

- Turn signal and wiper stalks. A lot of cars have knurled ends on these stalks; I try to clean the gunk out of that knurling

- Back side of the fuse panel cover. Many cars will have the fuse box diagram on the back side of this cover - so if it's something I know how to detach, I clean it

- Any overhead storage bins, like the place you put your sunglasses in a truck or SUV

- The little display windows for the climate control and the stereo

- Little tiny vent registers. This BMW I'm working on has them all over - I believe they're temp. sensors for the climate control system. They were really dusty, so I took a paintbrush to them

- Insides of the map pockets

- Insides of the pockets on the backs of the front seats

- Seatbelt release buttons and buckles

- Speaking of seatbelts, many cars these days are fitted with height-adjustable seatbelts for the front seats. Slide those all the way up, clean. Slide all the way down, clean the other half

Yeah, I've spent a lot of time this weekend rejuvenating a "barnyard find" BMW that had been owned by a cigar smoker. Ugh.