CLEAN INTERIOR

If you love driving your car then it stands to reason that you'll be spending most of your time inside. We realise that the vast majority of other people never see your cockpit, but that doesn't mean that cleansing your interior isn't an important part of a full detail, it’s also something that often gets overlooked during routine maintenance. Perhaps it’s simply because, arguably at least, there’s much more to think about when it comes to interiors.

The truth is that deep-down sanitising is just as important as cleaning here because, essentially, interior detailing is not just about looking good, it’s about ridding your vehicle of all the little nasties… some being significant nastier than others. Aside from the dirt you've just dragged in on your shoes, the crumbs, spills or the stray McDonalds chip down the side of the passenger seat, it’s the unseen contaminants that can prove to be the most harmful to your health… or at the very least, the most stomach-churning. Then there’s the question of dust, a large proportion of which is made up of dead skin. Effective eradication of dust can range from light dusting around trim and switches with an Interior Detailing Brush (or FeatherTip Brush on the more sensitive parts), to agitating a dedicated interior cleaner like Total into surfaces to deep clean, lifting away dust and grime at the same time.

There are other nasties of course, organic waste that left to fester can cause mould and fungus problems. These will need to be cleaned and sanitised, purely to make the surfaces safe… and less disgusting. The inside of your windscreen can also end up coated in a light film of coughs, sneezes, cigarette smoke and other sticky residues -