Has anyone tried these? I'm starting up a mobile detailing business and looking for options with carpet shampooing and well hand scrubbing isn't exactly my idea of fun.

 

A friendly bump but I'm just curious, how long have you been detailing? Also are you going to have a portable water tank or what are you going to do?

 

have you looked at the LGM? they are $80 or so for the turbo charged one at walmart.

 

Thump, I have been into the concept of detailing for a few years now, With basically all of my personal and family vehicles. Gotten super serious the past 6 months. Around where I live, a "detailer" is thrown around extremely loosely. They mostly include people that wash, throw a coat of cheap turtle wax on, and then throw a bunch of armor all at the dash and call it a detail. With the knowledge i've gained on here and over at MOL, and alot of trial and error on personal vehicles, I think I will be a breath of fresh air around here. Noone has ever even heard of a claybar, or a DA or anything, not even the local body shops. I am going to give it a shot, I think for the customer base and what i'll be doing (mostly wash,clay,wax customers with some of the buffing customers) I can make a decent go at it. Right now, I am not going "completely" mobile since I live in rural West Virginia, I am just right now requireing a water and electric hookup. I am doing this to keep start-up costs low and see how the business goes.


Gator - That's what i'm going to buy is the LGM Pet Pro w/ Heat. What I had in my head was to just use Meg's APC and then use either by hand or the DA with brushed to work the product in. Then use just the heated water from the LGM to extract the APC.

 

Guitarman, I was looking at those brushes too that are made by Porter Cable. One interesting thing I found on ADS was that all Rick sold was long or short bristle, but no choice as to what type of brush. I went on autogeek and found that there are 4 types of brushes http://www.autogeek.net/porter-cable-brushes.html
The black ones shown on ADS seem to be the most heavy duty and I would be skeptic about using that on auto carpets. I would probably try using the Aqua Soft Carpet Brush that you see on autogeek. I don't even know how well this would work, as I am thinking of doing the same thing as you, except extracting with a large shop vac.

I don't see why it would be any different than doing it by hand, it seems more efficient and almost as if it would work better than hand.

And by the way, use APC+ instead of APC, I believe it is better for carpets and smells alot better.

 

They are bitchin'. Used them last night, saves your arm big time. I bought the set on my last order and had at it.

 

You have the ones from ADS Roush?

Andrew - I've heard APC is more "foaming" and I was buying the bottle + foaming sprayer head. I looked at the APC+ ... i just dont know yet.

 

APC+ is for carpets, that's what the "+" means.

 

Yep, the same ones. They are really worth the money if you are going to be doing interior work.

Regular APC will foam up in water collection tanks. APC+ is a low foaming APC, therefore it is better to use when extracting. Plus, it doesn't smell like chemicals.

 

I've been using Folex with pretty nice results.

 

roush what type of bristle did you use? long or short? and how hard are the bristles exactly? do you know what hardness the brushes are in relevance to that link I posted?

 

Does LGM stand for "Little Green Machine"? That's the Bissel, right? Has anyone seen the new one that they've got out, the Spot Bot?

 

I saw the spot bot at the local walmart... didn't really look at it too much.

edit: I like the LGM because of the heat option.

 

So does LGM stand for Little Green Machine !?

 

lol yes. Sorry, I over-looked that question in your post.