Discusting farm clio

GrahamS · Feb 17, 2014

I've just bought this. It's got a sunroof leak, puddle in every foot well, mould and been owned by someone on a farm. It stinks and I got aids from it earlier.

Plan to take out the interior, pressure wash the carpets.

What would you recommend for everything else? I have absolutely no spare time so want to use whatever is going to get this done the quickest and cheapest as I'm giving it to my sister.

Knuckles · Feb 17, 2014

wow.

a shovel?

Corby G · Feb 17, 2014

My goodness. I'm absolutely speechless.

Start with a hoover. Bucket and (Damp) sponge/cloth for the dashboard etc.

I'd see where you are with that. If friends or family have a carpet cleaner I'd be temped to rip it out and go to town on it, same with the seats.

deadmau5 · Feb 17, 2014

grazo22 said:
owned by someone on a farm.

A pig or a cow?

Scrooge · Feb 17, 2014

GrahamS · Feb 17, 2014

deadmau5 pig I think, they left their ear tags in the door

It's even worse in the flesh

Any thoughts on using a vegetable brush for the textured material?

I'm defo going to have to take the seats out. I'll get some more pics tomorrow morning when it's back here.

deadmau5 · Feb 17, 2014

Looks a lovely example.

How much did you pay for this show stopper?

Clart · Feb 17, 2014

jesus. daniel will explode when he sees this

ThomasBrentnall · Feb 17, 2014

f**k that! I would just buy a new carpet and sport interior. Or if you don't want a sport interior just normal dynamique seats

GrahamS · Feb 17, 2014

I paid £300 for it which I'll probably get slated for but mechanically it's sound. Runs well, good tyres and brakes, very very local and a DCI. Petrol wasn't an option because of tax costs.

I'm going to try and save the carpet as all in I want to be less than £450. Going to do the cambelt, change all fluids and filters and seal the sunroof up.

JD · Feb 17, 2014

Take it to Daniel - the He-Man of cleaning.

Failing that, grab some all purpose cleaner for the plastics, soft brush, scrub, wipe off with damp MF.

DaveDreads · Feb 17, 2014

Christ in a bucket!!!
It makes the dog kennel look factory fresh.

(Just realised i'm in the detailing section, that's twice in one lifetime.....I don't like it)

GrahamS · Feb 17, 2014

Acting on the advice. I've bought a litre of valet pro apc as it was cheap.

Will rip the rest out and see what I can do with it for an hour or so a night in the next week.

Beef-Mc · Feb 17, 2014

Saw this on ebay but that interior is awful! I'd seriously consider just ripping all of it out and driving it stripped out?

GrahamS · Feb 17, 2014

Only went up last night and was in the budget so was a no brainer.

Not sure if my sister would approve of driving a stripped out Clio! None the less it will be so it can dry out for a while

Bluebeard · Feb 17, 2014

If you want to clean it properly, you will run out of time before you die of old age.

Best thing you can do there is remove the lot, pressure wash all the plastics and refit, but buy a new carpet and seats. A cup interior can be had for £50-£100.

If you're taking it all out to wash it, save the time it takes to wash it and just fit a second hand interior.

jamie crookston · Feb 17, 2014

You'll need a lot of g101. Looking forward to seeing the results.

car.crash · Feb 17, 2014

You're sister is so lucky.

Knuckles · Feb 17, 2014

car.crash said:
You're sister is so lucky.

You are sister indeed.

GrahamS · Feb 17, 2014

Entirely agree. It will never come up nice but I'm going to have to give it my best shot as money is tight as I've just paid for a heap of other 1 off things. Will probably do a new carpet and seats when I sell it on though unless a really cheap one near me comes up which they never do!

I could fit out a cinema the amount of clio seats I've had in my drive in the last year. All went to the tip though!

My sister is a plonker and bought herself a car which was mechanically a complete mess (from my girlfriend and I wasn't getting involved!) and doesn't have 2 pennies to rub together so I consider this what she deserves! I jest, it will look beautiful in 2 weeks and she will only get mild chest infections.

Bought this one for when it's nearly done

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161054707158?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

Chi · Feb 17, 2014

Couple of wet wipes should do the trick. . Get it to the local car wash for a laugh. Ask for a mini valet. .

George182 · Feb 17, 2014

Thats amazing.

Knuckles · Feb 17, 2014

If it was me and I wasn't spending much.

id take everything out

pressure wash everything outside the car

spray an apc over everything, agitate it and let it dwell

spray a weak mix of apc all over the interior, agitate it and wipe it off

Wipe over everything inside to make sure it's all off and dress where need be.

See what everything looked like and go from there.

Try and get hold of a wet vac to make the carpets and seats easier to deal with.

shame you don't live by me, it looks like it could be fun.

get a meet going to strip and clean it lol

harribo66 · Feb 17, 2014

Knuckles said:
If it was me and I wasn't spending much.

id take everything out

pressure wash everything outside the car

spray an apc over everything, agitate it and let it dwell

spray a weak mix of apc all over the interior, agitate it and wipe it off

Wipe over everything inside to make sure it's all off and dress where need be.

See what everything looked like and go from there.

Try and get hold of a wet vac to make the carpets and seats easier to deal with.

shame you don't live by me, it looks like it could be fun.

get a meet going to strip and clean it lol

This sounds a good idea to me!

car.crash · Feb 17, 2014

I can see foot and mouth disease spreading around the tunbridge wells region.

Corby G · Feb 17, 2014

grazo22 said:
I jest, it will look beautiful in 2 weeks and she will only get mild chest infections.

Ohh I lolled haha

AlexW · Feb 17, 2014

Whats the outside condition like, Good?

Interior is f**king minging. I can't understand people that would let their car get that bad!

GrahamS · Feb 17, 2014

He was happy to get in that every day! shocking.

Exterior isn't that bad. Front bumper is held on with cable ties but I'm sure that's standard, has been on all my clios.

Just needs a new rear cluster

coleman · Feb 17, 2014

No local Polish/Iranian car cleaning places? I'd chuck it into them to make a dent and then finish it myself.

Chip-mk1 · Feb 17, 2014

300 quid for any working clio DCI is a bargain TBH, I'd still buy it in that state.

AlexW · Feb 17, 2014

grazo22 said:
Just needs a new rear cluster

You got one?

Chip-mk1 said:
300 quid for any working clio DCI is a bargain TBH, I'd still buy it in that state.

Me too!

Jack 172 · Feb 17, 2014

What's all the fuss about looks mint interior

GrahamS · Feb 17, 2014

Just drove it home. The smell has given me a belly ache!

Reading through the SH it's had 2 new injectors only 20k ago, has a fair amount of SH and regular full filter changes with it so I'm happy.

Of course I can't get more pics now but here's one of the key I thought people would like.
AlexW - cluster is one of the few spares I still have thank the lord!

Knuckles · Feb 17, 2014

Is... Is that blood?

GrahamS · Feb 17, 2014

I used the spare thank god (I hadn't noticed that) and I'm not taking it out of the sandwich bag to check! Probably picked his ear with it. I am churning

Bluebeard · Feb 17, 2014

grazo22 said:
Probably picked his ear with it. I am churning

That's made me feel a bit ill tbh.

matt911 · Feb 17, 2014

Pmsl. Anything interesting in the boot? His wife maybe?

Jack! · Feb 17, 2014

It's a complete mess, but will be so rewarding to get clean, even more so when you end up with a clean DCI for little more than 300 quid.

Cliotoby · Feb 18, 2014

Thats not so bad.

Remove the interior for sure. New carpet would be ideal if you can.

If not just lots of G101. Actually for the sake of the fabric i would use Megs APC.

Id like to see pics of the results.

Chi · Feb 18, 2014

Local car wash mini valet. . Ftw

Discusting farm clio

aka Philomena Cunk aka Barry Shitpeas

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