I remember when I first started detailing cars I was doing it our driveway up until the snow started to fly! We were searching for a shop to rent at the time and found the spot we are in now. I started off with a 40 pack of rags, a shopvac, a spot cleaner, and some small bottles of cleaning products. Quickly I learned that shampooing carpets and seats was a bigger job then anticipated. When we moved into the shop we searched for a used carpet extractor and found one down in Windsor. Boy what a difference that made for time.
Before we got the industrial extractor I had to vacuum the entire car with the shop vac to pick up the bigger stuff then move onto using the spot cleaner to get the stains and smaller stuff out. Now with the big extractor I can skip the step of vacuuming before shampooing the carpets. About 2 months ago my employee was running the extractor and it started shooting sparks and smoking really bad! We dug into it and found that one of the two motors had gone bad! Thankfully I started searching on kijiji for a spare extractor. I finally found one but it was all the way in tToronto, I was able to have a friend pick up while he was there and I was back up and running!
I ended up finding a new motor for my original extractor and I installed it, now it has been working for the last few months, but today I found it was making some strange noises. I havent had a chance to dive into it yet I just swapped over to my spare unit for the time being. I think it may need another motor.
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