Bissell 3624 Spot Clean Professional Carpet Cleaner

[RicardoD]

Every time I clean my car's interior I have longed for a fancy carpet extractor to clean my interior carpets. The one's that heat up the water, and have tremendous suction power. Since I don't have a full time detailing business I could never justify the expense of this fancy equipment. I started watching detailing videos on YouTube, in particular this DetailGroove YouTuber and really appreciate this guy's approach to things. I realized with some simple tools and the $160 Bissel carpet extractor I could get the results I wanted. I am super happy with this purchase and process and will be doing all my cars interiors this way. I started with my E500.

1)use your favorite carpet cleaner in a spray bottle
- I used Resolve as I always had good luck with that in my home carpets
- I purchased a small hand pump garden sprayer for $16 and a concentrated bottle of resolve that should last forever

2)Get a Drill Brush cleaning tool for carpets (the white one), three brushes in there for $10
- must have accessory



3)Bissel 3624 spot cleaner carpet extractor
- has a smaller brush head that will spray water and clear nozzle so you can see the water you suck out
- I just used hot tap water in the clean water tank with no cleaner it in



Procedure:
- vacuum loose dirt out of interior carpets first
- Just spray your carpet cleaner in the area you want to clean
- follow up with the drill brushes which is where the magic happens to agitate and clean all the fibers, break loose dirt
- then use the Bissell spot cleaner to spray the hot water and then vacuum extract it in one step
- follow up with just vacuum with the Bissell (don't trigger the water)

BEFORE:


AFTER:


DIRTY WATER in dirty water tank

 

[JC220]

Nice job!

Yes I too enjoy detailing channels and a couple years back bought a Bissell smaller spot cleaner. It was / is a great machine but the Bissell detergent for it was quite expensive and small bottles I had to order on amazon here in Ireland. (Regular shampoos foamed up in the particular unit I had)

So I bought a gallon of automotive carpet shampoo concentrate and a Henry brand carpet extractor. Once you clean a carpet with an extractor you won't go back! I did however quickly become obsessed with creating stripes with it



The quality wool carpets in our MBs of this era come up like new

 

[RicardoD]

I couldn't get the stripes with the Bissel, maybe I didn't use the right technique. I love the stripes however. When I get to my 911 with the tan interior I will see what I can do.

 

[Jlaa]

Every time I clean my car's interior I have longed for a fancy carpet extractor to clean my interior carpets.

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Great Tip! And filling up the dirty water tank with dirty water is just so cathartic!!!

Just FYI ---- Try to relieve the stress/bend on the hose end where it connects with the brush-wand. The design of the Bissell is such that it forces the hose end UP. My last Bissell lasted about 10 years until that unnatural hose-bend made the hose break at the connection to the brush-wand, and, of course, that part is not replaceable.

For my current Bissell, I store the brush-wand like this to relieve the stress.



Also the ZEP brand of shampoo that you can find at Home Depot is cheap and plentiful:

 

[luckymike]

To each his own but no stripes! So unnatural. Our cars never came that way. I find the stripes and patterns really detract from an otherwise classy interior.

 

[gsxr]

Great Tip! And filling up the dirty water tank with dirty water is just so cathartic!!!

Maybe it's just me, but I'd fill up the tank with clean water... in case your carpets are cleaner than the dirty water you add.

 

[JC220]

To each his own but no stripes! So unnatural. Our cars never came that way. I find the stripes and patterns really detract from an otherwise classy interior.

Fair enough comment I understand and they are easily and fully reversible by vacuuming

 

[nocfn]

I used the bohemian method on the SEC. When I dynomatted the floor, I removed the seats, the foot carpets and the molded carpeting and used the pressure washer with some zep. But the front foot mats just un-button and lift out, making it much easier to clean outside the cockpit.