I need to set it back in place and see how big a cover for the tear would need to be. If I can get the AC working and the interior back in then I can start to focus on other issues. If I can do that, then it can dry next to the dehumidifier in the Grosh over the weekend and I can start putting it back together next week and free up some much needed space. I have some things to do on the Miata, hopefully 10 yards of gravel is getting delivered, and I need to get the Accord organized for a track day Sunday, but I'm also hoping that i can get those last few areas of the carpet clean today. My wife actually took a picture of me doing the initial spray down at dusk after dinner that night. My sister is coming to visit and I need to get some parts back in cars before then. Things are drying well and if all goes well the interior goes back in early next week. I also washed the drivers seat and all the floor mats. Anyone who ends up like that deserves to see what they see. I have a plan that involves a skin graft of sorts using carpet from under the front seats where it can't be seen unless you're upside down in the rear seat. The only real problem area is the dead pedal where the carpet has worn through. I need to do a little more scrubbing on the passenger foot well area where the bottle of ATF emptied itself, but it's basically new-ish looking. My solution was to hang it from the step ladder to rise. Worked great. The problem with washing carpet is that it's kind of a bowl which makes rising difficult. In that respect, it's really quite amazing. It's as rust free as any Forester on the planet. This is a lifetime Texas Subaru Forester. The parts of the car you can see are rough, but the parts you can't see are pristine. When I get it up on the lift I'll show you. If you climb underneath the car there are no dents. You can see from the top that there are no dents. Not only are they rust free, they're basically perfect. These are the passenger side floor pans of a 20 year old Subaru. It's only when pull the seats or climb underneath it that you see what you're really dealing with. So you've got a car that's dirty inside and dented outside and has a noisy compressor and a torn CV boot and 272k miles. The interior of these types of cars are sacrificial and compared to a bunch of the cars I see in junkyards this one is a peach. Even if you're careful and clean it gets dirty.
It's the car you drive to work so that you can get in at the end of the day in your work clothes and that your wife never has to ride in it and get pissed at you. The interior is a bit dirty but almost every car like this eventually reaches a point where it becomes a work car. It's ugly, though before it got backed into I bet it wasn't bad for a 20 year old car creeping up on 300k miles. Which brings me to an interesting point about this car.
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