6 Car Interior Cleaning Tips before Transporting

Hello World!  Welcome Friends!  For most car owners or car resellers, the transport of cars and vehicles from one location to another can tend to be a tricky process. If one decides to drive the car to the desired destination, there are various factors involved such as the risks and prices of fuel, etc. This brings out the necessity of car transport services.

The use of professional and complete car transporter services alleviates the risk and dangers of transporting cars by yourself. It also reduces the costs because you don’t have to set aside a budget for hotels and food.

Being able to transport with a car transporter is a breeze and involves various easy steps. First, you get a pricing memo. After you have gotten the memo, you drop off your car at the transportation company office. The company will then pick up the car. All you’ll have to do is to wait for communication when the car arrives at its destination. Easy and convenient, right?

Car transport prices vary based on various factors such as the type of car, the size, and the distance being transported. Some services also consider the client’s expected car delivery times and this can add on to the price.

One major issue that people forget when they have chosen to transport with car transporter is the cleaning of a car’s interior. Car transport timelines vary based on the company’s specifications and the distance of shipping. Due to this, you should ensure that you ship a car while it is clean. Most people clean the exterior and forget the car’s interior.

The buildup of dirt and grime in a car can ruin the car’s interior styling and ruin the fabric used for the interior. It can also cause the dashboard, steering wheel, and seats to start cracking. To avoid this, we have compiled some car interior cleaning tips to ensure that this does not happen.

Let’s get started.

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1. Remove Trash and Clutter

The first step when cleaning your car’s interior should be to take out all the trash and clutter in the car. If you have kids, you should pay attention to the cracks between seats and under the seats. While doing this, you should put on gloves because there are sharp points under car seats that can easily cause cuts.

You should also take out anything that you have put into the car that is not essential for the running of the car. This is done to create room for the cleaning process. Something to note is that after you finish cleaning, you should not return the personal stuff into your car if you are looking to transport it.

2. Vacuuming

This is the most integral part of car interior cleaning. While vacuuming, you should never start by vacuuming the car’s carpet because you will end up putting dust there again while vacuuming the seats. This should be the last part of the car’s interior to vacuum.

For a proper cleaning session, you should start by vacuuming the dashboard, the console, and the air vents. Due to the shape of the dashboard and the windscreen, vacuuming can be quite a hard task because there will be some hard-to-reach places. You should use all the available brush attachments and nozzles to vacuum the crevices.

However, this does not mean that you should ignore it. The use of a hand-held vacuuming machine can help clear dust from these places. After that, you now vacuum the console and the air vents. The air vents tend to be quite dusty hence a lot of time should be put into them.

After that, you should now focus on the car seats. Car seats can arguably be the dirtiest place in a car, yet they seem clean. You can dry vacuum the car seats to clean them. Dry vacuuming can be done on all car seat materials.

To go a step further in car cleaning, you can clean the car seats using an extractor. Wet-vacuuming is only possible for car seats made using Alcántara or any other cloth material.

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3. Dedicated Cleaning Essentials

For most cases, using plain water to clean the car’s interior will not do quite a good job. This is where various car cleaning products come in. Products like upholstery cleaners and wax play a huge part when it comes to cleaning the interior before car transport.

Before using any cleaning product, you should ascertain that it can be used to clean the material you are using it on. For cars with leather interiors, any wrong product used on them can cause permanent damages. Some of the best car leather cleaning products have been discussed here.

4. Air Ventilation System

The air vents in a car are a common area where dust accumulates especially if the car has not been used in a while. Cleaning the whole air ventilation system is not quite possible since the system extends into more than the air vents seen in the interior.

To start off cleaning the system, you close all air vents in the car and start the car. After that, set the fan to the highest speed and open the vents one at a time. Let this run for about two minutes to ensure that all dust and debris stuck in the ventilation system is dislodged.

When done, you can use a flat screwdriver with a cloth at the end to clean the vents.

5. Dashboard

Dashboards tend to collect a lot of dust and fingerprints. Vacuuming the dashboard will get rid of the dust only. To clear the collected fingerprints on the car’s dashboard, you can use a piece of cloth and a soap and water solution or dedicated dashboard cleaning products. Using the soap and water solution will do the job well but using dedicated cleaners will work better.

Dedicated dashboard cleaning products come with various chemical and natural elements that form a protective layer over the dashboard. This layer will leave your dashboard squeaky clean for longer.

Cleaning the infotainment screen can be more complicated due to its sensitivity. To avoid ruining the screen, you should use a microfiber cloth or screen wipes to clean it.

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6. Interior Windows and Mirrors

Forgetting to clean the interior windows is a common thing when cleaning a car’s interior and prepping it for car shipping. You should clean the interior windows using a microfiber cloth and an ammonia-free cleaning agent. Using a cleaning agent containing ammonia will damage the car’s interior plastics.

If you cannot get an ammonia-free window cleaning product, you can use distilled white vinegar in its place.

When cleaning the windows, you should start at the top part of the window and work your way down. This is done so that you can catch any drips.

Conclusion

Implementing all these car interior cleaning tips before transporting with a car transporter will ensure that the car arrives in a clean condition and therefore ready to drive.

However, depending on the method of transport you have chosen, the car might need a little cleaning before being driven.

There are two methods of transport, the open carrier, and the enclosed carrier. For the open carrier, the car is transported with other cars in an open carrier. For the enclosed carrier, the car is transported in a container. The latter transportation method ensures the car reaches its delivery location in a cleaner state than when using the open carrier.

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