I dont have a vacuum at home thats good for the car. And tired of paying a buck or so to vacuum at the car wash.
Wondering what you guys use to vacuum up your cars.

I have been looking into shop vacs with the floor and crevice tools, but if theres something out there that you can recommend, and not kill the bank book for a vacuum cleaner dedicated to the car only.

 

I use a shop vac. They work great.

 

3 horse? 5 horse? 3 gal? 5 gal?
I just dont want to be underpowered

 

Bought a Shark cordless 10.8V with attachments from Lowes. It works fine. I don't like the plastic vacuum hose at the car wash or from a shop vac. dragging across the paint,and it was a hassle to put a towel down.

 

For me the Shark doesn't have enough power. I bought the biggest wet/dry vac I could find. This way if I need to really clean the carpet I get out the garden house and the shop vac. Add some water, a little bit of soap and then use the vacuum while apply water to clean up everything. Sure beats getting them shampoo'd profesionally.

 

I have a shop vac for the big cleanups and a cordless dustbuster for the quick cleanups. The big shop vacs are so handy to have. I bought a extension hose, that makes it easier to use in the car. Also, Lowes or Home depot stocks all kinds of attachments for the shop vac, they're not expensive.

 

excellent info guys. appreciate it

 

We have a central vac and it really sucks. Its really good at cleaning the house and does a really good job at cleaning cars. I took it over our 93's interior and it got ever little peice of dirt. THey are really expensive but they are a good investment (not to mention it helps out your homes value).

 

agreed

 

Dyson for me. I love it, wife hates it. Let me clarify... wife hates me using her fancy vacuum.

 

I use one of the small shop vac-type units for my car. I think it's a Stinger. About $20 or so at Home Depot. I did buy a second hose for it to give me some extra length to make it easier to crawl around the floorboards.

I had a big shop vac but was afraid of it tipping over onto the car. The Stinger works well and is very portable. I have a corded 12 volt dustbuster I use at car shows for last minute touch ups. They make a good combo.

 

If you do have to use a car wash vaccume shake the hose first especially after a bar hoppin night as YOU never know what could be in there !

 

Haha, vacuumed up some puke before have we.

 

Correction on Shark. My car has black carpet-least amount of dirt shows,I vacuum it right away,carpet never has been DIRTY. Just because I'm this really nice wife, I detailed hubby's truck Mon. It was filthy! The Shark could not handle the ground in dirt and bits of shell and pebbles (small bits,but a lot). Had to go to carwash for vacuum. Truck looks great now.

 

I have some Craftsman corded autovaccuum. Works great on the carpets and seats, but it lacks any kind of attachments for the crevaces.