the Dust swirls around in the blue-white glow from the arbejdslampen. The scrunch in the nose, otherwise just have gotten used to the smell of chemicals and grooming in the hall.
With the air pressure when Ronni High-Nielsen down in all the crevices and holes in the varebilens cabin, and the remains of several months of byggestøv and soil are being sent out from his hiding place.
Ronni High-Nielsen is one of the first stages in the preparation of a delivery van, which is uncommon dirty. Or, for him it centimetertykke layer of soil in the load area and the cabin is completely normal, but it is still more than the local changing table-vacuum cleaner can grasp.
Varebilens impure qualities are also the reason why we have directed our attention to it. For the looks like most likely a part of other vans, driving around in the country and has been largely abandoned by their owners.
Bundmåtterne is the same color as the building site, the seats have blotches, and below them are hiding may be a forgotten tray of French fries or a packed lunch.
Therefore, we have set ourselves to examine where the boundary goes for what can become nice again. For that we ally ourselves with Ronni High-Nielsen from the Copenhagen car care and a Toyota ProAce, if the previous driver has done very little to keep the car clean.
– It is quite normal with cars that look like the here. The worst cars are the ones that have been used by contractors, masons and painters. They can really be dirty, and have often also malerpletter on the seats and dashboard. But in most cases we can get it, says Ronni High-Nielsen.
Only a few scratches reveal that the car has been used before, and it is now ready for a showcase. Photo: Mathias Grams
While Ronni High-Nielsen, working in the cabin, scoops Tareq Alps and his colleague, until more skovlfulde soil and dirt from load area and up in a big trash can.
Behind them, a shiny red Ferrari California, and over the coffee table hangs this year’s scantily clad Würth calendar, but it is still a green and old Renault on the yellow plates, which runs with the attention.
It has been out for so long that algae has attacked the outside as on the inside, and around the car is the almost live blankets ready for a thorough treatment.
According to Ronni High-Nielsen means it is not so much whether the car has been regularly cleaned and maintained. Everything except the epoxy, glue and decidedly wear can basically be washed away. He has been with to clean cars that have been exposed to malerbomber, which has been left in the wild, or that homeless people have lived in.
– You can get yourself some of those cars to be at the dealer. We also got even a Mercedes, that had been under water, out to run again. The border for the most part only knows what it must cost, he says.
most of The Tareq Alps arm has disappeared in the engine compartment on the white Toyota. It is rolled in the wash bay, and here flounder he the oily parts under the hood by hand.
The traditional vaskehalsbørster in the corner are allowed to stand still in the day, for the car to be cleaned in place with elbow grease and water at high pressure.
After the ablution goes all the present in time to dry testbilen. Normally it can take up to an hour for a single man to do it, for it is in the drying process, to flyverust and tar removed from the car.
Only then can they go in time with the last stage: Cleaning of the cabin. And here is the most important tool any more practical than earlier in the day.
– Many think not of it, but it is a bit like washing up. It comes with a brush, says Ronni High-Nielsen, while he alternately brushes and dries a of the passenger compartment luftdyser.
Tareq Alps, working from the top down in the cabin, which is muddy good. Photo: Mathias Grams
Usually, it takes a whole day to get the car cleaned. The result is, however, also then: the engine compartment and the cabin stands as in a new car where you almost are sorry to step up on the footboard, and in the load area, only scratches and a few stubborn stains on the wooden floor, which reveals that the car has been used before.
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Difficult to do at home
the Dashboard will be scrubbed with a brush. Photo: Mathias Grams
In Glostrup working Copenhagen’s car care is mainly with the vans, which need to be clarified before they change hands or be sold.
in some cases It might be enough to make the car worth more, but if you ask Ronni High-Nielsen, it is difficult to do it thoroughly enough at home on the villavejen.
– You can easily make a good result at home, but such a one as the, we’ve looked at now, it would most probably have given up along the way. How to clean the seats, and how do you get the dashboard nicely? You can drag a cloth across, but it will not clean of, he says.
The craftsman cars, which are given up on, end up, according to Ronni High-Nielsen will often be bought cheaply by dealers, who then sends them over klargøringsvirksomheder as Copenhagen’s car care.
– They know that it is possible to get the cars back in good condition, he says.
Before and after: the load area bears the marks of a hard life, but are cleaned in the bottom. Photo: Mathias Grams
Photo: Mathias Grams
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car maintenance in seven steps
the Biggest surprise is the cabin, which is like new. Photo: Mathias Grams
At Copenhagen’s car care makes one very out of the to work systematically with the cars. A preparation can be divided into seven steps:
Varebilen emptied first for waste.
the Cabin and the load area vacuumed to ensure that you just can’t move the dirt and soil from one place to another.
the Whole car is blown with air pressure to get the dirt up, where you otherwise can’t get to.
Varebilen sæbes in and grundrenses. 5. Although the car is now washed, sitting there still tar and red flyverust in the paintwork. It cleaned off when the car dried. The drying process takes like an hour’s time.
the Car is made clean inside with magic mushrooms, brush and tæpperenser, if the seats are very dirty.
Dashboard, door sides and trinbrædder freshen up with vinylrens, so they get the original color back.
