Since everyone else is buying cars (SOLD - page 9)

[harofreak00]

I bought it for $1600, and I plan to put less than $400 into it... Plan on selling it for $3000-3500.... A 1-1.5k profit.

[SSEimatt93]

*dang*, I wish I had the room to do something like that!
My uncle has done it for years, and has turned some *dang* good profit doing so.
Nissan Multi Wagon for 70 bucks, put 350 into it, sold it for 2g..that kinda thing.

[harofreak00]

here are some of the cleaned up engine bay...





and here is the only way I know of to properly clean a car.









some parts...


Here is the carpet before cleaning... I'll post the after pictures when they are dry tomorrow.

[TenGHz]

*dang*, that's a DIRTY car! He wasn't kidding about the dirt roads either.

[bonnevillain]

no kidding. I just took my car apart for no doubt the first time ever in 123k miles, and it was nowhere near that dirty!

[PRD2BDF]

you should totally empty the shop vac then weigh it and vaccum all the dirt off then weigh the shop vac again to see how much dirt you vacuumed out.

[bonnevillain]

or just dump it all out afterwords and show us the dirt!

[harofreak00]

Most of that dirt will be wiped out with a wet cloth. You will just have to imagine the dirt pile

[Gumball]

Wow

[harofreak00]

carpet is drying faster than I thought it would in the sun.




Tomorrow I'm gonna order the headliner kit and fuel level sender, and see if Ed can get me some small parts...

[radomirthegreat]

Makes me want to take some more cars apart!

I just got back from trying to get mine back together. It just doesn't feel right...

[TenGHz]

Carpets look night and day different. Good work! Can't wait to see the finished car.

[01bonne]

Hey Haro, how long did it take you to remove the seats and carpet?

[WhiteArrow3800]

Whoa, great work! Looking forward to the progress for sure!

[GoldenBullet]

looks great, this is something i need to do to my car soon.

[harofreak00]

Hey Haro, how long did it take you to remove the seats and carpet?

I gutted the entire car in about an hour, but I have done this a few times before... *not trying to brag... well kinda*

[bonnevillain]

wait... it wasn't sunny here!

[PRD2BDF]

I gutted the entire car in about an hour, but I have done this a few times before... *not trying to brag... well kinda*

the room is starting to get a bit crowded...lol

Did you use a steam cleaner? The marks look like either a steam cleaner or a really strong vacuum cleaner.

[harofreak00]

I cleaned the carpets with the self-serve car wash. Took about $4 to get them like that. I used a small brush to work the carpet.

The marks I made with the brush strictly for the picture

Doing this reminds me so much of when I did my car....

this is sunday afternoons project... ripped out the carpet to have it look like this..

ya, its bad



i can now see why GM wants almost $200 per section of this stuff, its pretty complex with all the padding and such



i found some new water problems i was unaware of before, check out how wet the padding is


i knew the rear piece is going to be replaced since some of the carpet is actually missing from some acid, so i am only working on the front...

i worked on it in my driveway for a while, had some laundry detergent soaking on it for a while, notice how the carpet holds all water...it soaked for almost 30 min


after that i took it to the carwash to powerwash it, with some help from the van


here the carpet hangs to dry, i think it turned out pretty good for its first cleaning, i can always keep doing it

[TenGHz]

Deja vu all over again?