well from the day i got my 5.5 which was 1 year ago, i noticed the DIRTY DIRTY DIRTY door jams, i never seen anything like it in my life. i guess its all the highway miles on my car, but still they were soooo nasty the dirt grime was caked on realllly bad.

i tryed to clean with soap water, glass cleaner and nothing worked. so i gave up and delt with it.


untill finally i found something that worked, KRUD KUTTER, got it from lowes


on with the pics



dirty son!!!!!!








sprayed on, took a tooth brush cleand it all, then hosed it off, i done this 2-3 times to make sure it was all clean,

DO NOT leve the krud kutter on for long, its VERY strong and will take paint off......



all clean



man this literally makes the car feel bran new, its sooo much cleaner , idk if its just me but the door jams being dirty drove me insane, and now im happy, these things are clean as ever!!!!!!!!


something i would reccomend to anyone selling a car!!! even if you dont look at the door jam, if its clean it will go noticed !!

 

how did this happen? never saw this on my car...

 

idk they were like that when i got the car!!!!

i guess, from 02 they were never cleaned???

im just assumming the 2 onwers b4 me, did not "detail" it like i do...



o well they are damm clean now all that matters to meeeeeeee

 

would some heavy duty degreaser work the same?

 

probably, i used simple green to do mine

 

haha weird, I just did this yesterday with Krudcutter (sp). Looks so much better and it isn't irritating me anymore haha.

 

wow my door jams never look like that,and i dont ever clean them,i just wipe off the dust once ina while,but good job on cleaning yours,looks a whole lot better

 

prolly just wiping the dust off, is preventing what happend to me!!!!!

keep on doing that!!!!

great minds think alike.




prolly, i only had to use tuff stuff cuz myne was horrible, im sure most ppl's is no where near this bad

 

Thanks for the write-up, We should applaud any write-up that's not already written...

 

soap and water would have done the same but... nice job.. now I know here is another product that I can spend my money ..

 

nooo far from soap and water

i had to scrape with my fingernail just to get it to come off for that pic......


i can not explain how nasty this was. it was STUCK ON worse than anything ive ever cleaned...

 

Can we do it keeping the car at the horizontal position? I don't have the appropriate equipment...

 

haha

just ask a few ppl to help ya hold the car on its side...

i lucked out and proped myne aginst the buldin i got.

 

that's disgusting!!!

Bug&Tar remover would have done the same thing, but without the risk of stripping paint. I did my dad's engine bay with it and here here are some before/after pictures.









Some time and good finger ****ing ended up in a great finished product

**move to Detailing?**

 

I'm buying... nice job.. now that's clean

 

wow that Bug & Tar really works

 

nice job...just be sure that you don't hit the hinges too much, or you'll get squeaky doors when all the grease is "degreased"

moving to detailing forum...

 

well thanks was looking for away to clean those up really helpful

 

yea i used purple power on my door jams and everytime somebody opened my door afterwards i got compliments on how clean my door jams were

 

The Bug&Tar worked great, it just needed a little bit of elbow grease and some time to get through it.

 

A degreaser such as purple power or simple green work great...I use purple power cut 1/2 water 1/2 degreaser(just to avoid possibly messing up the paint) and it works very well with door jambs..just need some small tools to get in there and scrub.

 

i don't know about using something that will strip paint off. Soap/Water, Simple green, Meg's APC, and the such would have done just fine.

I've seen door jambs like that at work, usually just a terry cloth towel and some soapy water knocks it right off.

 

i use purple power full strength and wipe it down w/ a rag from the water i just washed the car with

*shrugs shoulders*

 

yea but that requires alot of elbow grease...rather use the purple power/simple green and hit that bad boy w/ a 1-2 punch lol

 

Very nice, very nice.

Be a good time to give it another wash with some good ole car wash and water again (or ONR if you have it) and wax the living daylights out of those jams. If you think they look good now, wait till you wax em. Easier cleaning next time too!

 

I am the original owner of your car. I owned the car since new in 2002. In less than 5 years, I put on close to 150,000 miles on the car. It had been through 5 New England winters prior to me selling the car in January 2007. I only wish I could have detailed the car the way it was supposed to be done. However, I have a wife and three young boys at home. When I wasn't on the road for work, I spent my time with my family and not with my car. That doesn't mean that I didn't take care of the car. I ALWAYS had any mechanical issues addressed when they came up. I am sure that you can attest to that with the file of papers that Mike should have given you when he sold the car to you.

Now that I have explained myself, let me say that the car looks great! I am so glad that you are taking good care of it. Keep up the good work!

Kevin

Here are a few pictures of the only time the car was not driven, just before I sold it!






Edited for spelling.

 

thanks for the info .. im gonna go clean my door jams now

 

ya i totally understand on the detaling, i wasent trying to bash you or mike. but they were pretty damm dirty lol. yes i did get all the records ! wow man you really did take care of the car. mabey better than i do cuz it took me 2 months to buy the powersteering pressure hose hahah.

thanks for posting pics !! thats cool, if u got anymore pm me and email em to me plzzzzz , i wanna see the car bran new? or somewhere <171,000 miles, hah thats what it is at now.

i try to take good care of it, despite it has a replaced tranny now. lol, i got one wit 33K on it
hahah kinda ironic, the tranny has 33k everything else has 171k hahah

 

I do have some pictures. PM me you e-mail address and I will send you what I have. Here is a mileage picture to go with the new tranny!

Kevin

 

I've seen some bad door jams where i used to detail at, but man, those had to be some of the nastiest ive seeeeeennnnn...wow i clean 'em every wash

 

Old post, but made me realize just how bad my door jams are.

 

Simple Green FTW.