Floor Mats!! What do you think about this idea guys

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I have just spent the last hour cleaning the floormats out of an Audi...



I could suck the filth out of these things for, well a very long time...:faint:



Why not just buy new ones? if you are cool with all the dealers in town you can get a wholesale price or online they can be had quite cheaply online.



I feel as if replacing the mats with either OEM mats from the dealer or Weathertech (optional upgrade/charge) would be the best option for %75 of the vehicles out there... ok %50. However, I digress...



Floormats are the carpets first line of defense in staying clean. For real talk about getting steped on I'm not trying to be funny but... dont fresh floormats set an interior off? Also think about the save with labor.
 
You can spend all day sucking dirt out of floor mats or you can hit them with APC and blast them with your pressure washer. You'll be amazed at how fast the crap comes out.



As far as selling mats, if I'm the customer, I'm going to question the value of your services if you can't do something simple like get my mats clean.
 
yakky: That is a good point and I do see where your comng from. I went from this...

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to this...

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and I am just not too happy with the results. I wont be making alot on this job and well whatever I just think new mats would be nice every once in a while.
 
I take that approach with our vehicles, at least as a matter of mindset, but I hardly ever end up actually replacing them. Kept thinking I would on the MPV (light gray :o ) but when I sold the thing the somewhat stained mats didn't really matter. With darker colors it just never seems necessary; the navy blue ones in the A8 are another set I keep thinking I'll need to replace, but even after ten winters they're still OK (if not concours).
 
Knox Details said:
yakky: That is a good point and I do see where your comng from. I went from this...

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to this...

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and I am just not too happy with the results. I wont be making alot on this job and well whatever I just think new mats would be nice every once in a while.
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You know, to us autopians, there is a bit of dirt staining on the front ones, to the owner of the car, its probably a miracle.
 
yakky said:
You can spend all day sucking dirt out of floor mats or you can hit them with APC and blast them with your pressure washer. You'll be amazed at how fast the crap comes out.



As far as selling mats, if I'm the customer, I'm going to question the value of your services if you can't do something simple like get my mats clean.
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Even with super filthy nasty mats like that - like "yakky" says: You just gotta get your APC and hit them with a 3000psi pressure washer. It works absolute miracles. Forget about buying the new floor mats, if you haven't tried this method out you have to try it! I'm doing the interior of a caravan tomorrow and I can imagine what kind of disaster its going to be. I'll take before and after photos of the mats with using the method of pressure washing them and post them up.



Cheers!
 
Knox Details said:
Floormats are the carpets first line of defense in staying clean. For real talk about getting steped on I'm not trying to be funny but... dont fresh floormats set an interior off? Also think about the save with labor.
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I personally have OEM carpeted mats for summer use and rubber WeatherTechs for winter use. Yeah, I could just clean up the carpeted ones when they get cruddy. But like you say, the mats are there to protect the carpet. And while they look nicer they don't do that job as well as a rubber mat in brutal NE Ohio winters.



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I have worked on floor mats that APC + Power Washer do not get clean. So, if they don't come clean I use a stain remover, spray it, let it sit for a minute then scrub with a brush. then powerwash again. The only thing I haven't been able to get out is tar. Everything else has come at least 90% clean.
 
toymachine2009 said:
What do you use to extract the water out after pressure washing them?
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Squeegee and then let air dry. I do the interior first so by the time everything else is done, the mats are dry.
 
Scottwax said:
Squeegee and then let air dry. I do the interior first so by the time everything else is done, the mats are dry.
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Really that's it? No little green machine from bissell or a wet dry vac or anything? Doesn't the Matt take hours to dry? Also there a reason you don't use an extractor or anything?
 
Alexshimshimhae said:
good to have you back sir..



when you say squeegee...do you mean the thing you use to wisk water off your windshield ?
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That's exactly what I mean. ;)



Glad to be back, Trend wouldn't let me on for two weeks due to the virus issue.
 
toymachine2009 said:
Really that's it? No little green machine from bissell or a wet dry vac or anything? Doesn't the Matt take hours to dry? Also there a reason you don't use an extractor or anything?
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If you squeegee them out well and hang them to dry, by the time you finish the rest of the detail (which can be 6+ hours), they are dry. You can also toss them in a dryer if they are a bit damp still, they fluff up nicely as they dry.
 
yea... that's the poops ... was starting to get us worried lol



with the pressure I imagine you would use, I would've thought you would break the thing? or leave scuffs on the edges of the mats where the threading is thick hehe good to know ~!
 
Like somebody has mentioned, i use my power washer and some apc and it works great and i use my wet vac to suck up all the water.....no need for an extractor.....
 
I did my mats last week and they took 2+ days to dry even with me removing the water with a makeshift CD case squeegee. It wasn't sunny enough to let them try out on the driveway and it was quite humid so I'll chalk it up to that. Otherwise, they came out relatively good (they're black).
 
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