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Jul/1021
Jul/1021
Gav’s EV Conversion 4 – Cleaning the Exxon Valdez
Visit www.EVsecrets.com & grab my new EV Conversion book + video package! Video number four is here (early too). We’re getting closer to converting the car to electric every week! In this video I removed the seats & carpets before scrubbing & hosing them down. The amount of brown water that came out of those seats was pretty gross but at least my fiance will sit on them now. 
I ended up scrubbing the metal floor, door skins and ceiling too and I can finally say the car smells good!
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2:20 pm on July 7th, 2010
top tip for cleaning seats and carpets. start with hot water with a cleaning agent of your choice. fabric softner smells good and helps a little too. grab a hand held brish the type with plastic brisols that normally have a handle on the top and boat shaped (pointed end) soak the seat and scrub away. when you think its done grab a vacum cleaner that can suck up water and get as much out as you can. then keep it in warm place or leave heater on otherwise it will start to smell bad.
3:14 pm on July 7th, 2010
yeah, and since there’s no gas engine the only noise will be from the road, and the whine of the electric motor.
3:34 pm on July 7th, 2010
start with the sound damping and carpets. the isolation makes the cars heavier and heavier.
4:11 pm on July 7th, 2010
When (not if) I make my EV, I will be taking out every non-required pound/kilo from the car.
Less weight == More Miles/Kilometers
Obviously, don’t go nuts and remove the spare tire or anything… But the rear seat can be replaced with a rack for groceries or whatnot.
4:57 pm on July 7th, 2010
take a while to dry the seats?::D lol
4:59 pm on July 7th, 2010
its maybe rat or mice shit they could well have a smelly rodent in their car lol:L:L
5:10 pm on July 7th, 2010
About the new car smell. They do sell that in a can, and by the way, that new car smell is the ominum plastic chemicals going airborne. It’s fairly toxic.
5:18 pm on July 7th, 2010
brown water? cat wee? (along with its biscuit)
5:34 pm on July 7th, 2010
Not to worry, it was biodegradable laundry detergent.
5:45 pm on July 7th, 2010
you let all the seat cleaning toxins go down the drainage to the water supply. not good.
6:24 pm on July 7th, 2010
“God, I hope they’re cat biscuits” I love this guy. Quote of the day.
7:11 pm on July 7th, 2010
i was reading the deion on your site and heard about your pay back with it. $1.35, maybe be a small amount, but every projects has its payback!
7:15 pm on July 7th, 2010
No but I gave them a good scrub!
8:04 pm on July 7th, 2010
did you repaint your dash parts?
8:32 pm on July 7th, 2010
Dude when i make my electric car conversion i’m not gonna clean a thing untill it totally works!
P.s. this is not a hybrid its an electric car -get it right caa1000
8:57 pm on July 7th, 2010
I still have quite a long way to go at the moment and I’m up to about $2500 US, but as for knowledge you don’t need to know much at all – works for me!
I’m learning as I go. The best way to learn!
9:39 pm on July 7th, 2010
You inspired me to do the same. I want to covert an old car into an all electric car. How much did it cost? How long did it take you. What do I need to know?
9:44 pm on July 7th, 2010
Hope the hybrid will work fine! USA pay $3.50 a gallon!
10:37 pm on July 7th, 2010
Nice work!
And.. Nice background music. I love St Germain too.
11:27 pm on July 7th, 2010
In this car it’s a thin cloth which came out suprisingly well after that scrubbing. It was grubby inside around the sunroof but now it looks great!
12:22 am on July 8th, 2010
Is the head liner made of plastic (like in Volvo 240s) or cloth? because from my experience cloth head liners aren’t very fond of humidity and friction. Good job with the clean up.