Spilled Vinegar in My Backseat *sigh*

[AmBo]

Spilled vinegar in my backseat. A lot. This stuff smells horrible no matter how many times I use foam cleaner and febreeze. I even took up the carpet as much as I could and sprayed some febreeze under it.

It smells so bad...if I choose to go the road of replacing the carpet, what's the best route to go? I'm thinking of trying to find a matching color to match my dashboard (a darker parchment).

I don't even think a detailing place could exercise this demon from my car.

 

[MAXX RS4]

Spilled vinegar in my backseat. A lot. This stuff smells horrible no matter how many times I use foam cleaner and febreeze. I even took up the carpet as much as I could and sprayed some febreeze under it.

It smells so bad...if I choose to go the road of replacing the carpet, what's the best route to go? I'm thinking of trying to find a matching color to match my dashboard (a darker parchment).

I don't even think a detailing place could exercise this demon from my car.

If you're going to replace it, you might as well just remove it and try pressure washing it with some wool lite and seeing if that helps. If it removes the smell then just put the new-looking and fresh smelling carpet back in and save yourself the money.

 

[AmBo]

Does that actually work? How do I dry it? Just hang it out?

 

[Disturbed One]

what about some arm n hamer, how ever it's spelled baking soda to sit in there over night or something a few nights? Don't know if it'd work but worth a shot.

 

[TrueBlue03]

ehh...vinegar in the backseat?

 

[AmBo]

ehh...vinegar in the backseat?

Yea, brought it to the girlfriend's to dye eggs and then it went boom...ouch!

 

[TrueBlue03]

aww hell. damn easter egg dying always leads to problems. lol never had a positive experience with that in all my life. good luck with the smell.

if you do plan on washing it, after, you should try laying down some dryer sheets under the front seats (out of sight) for a few weeks and possibly just rubbing them around on the carpet. they eliminate not so harsh odars surprisingly well....although probably not enough to hide the smell of vinegar

 

[AmBo]

Yeah, I never thought vinegar had such a pungent scent. It's slowly getting less and less strong, but at first it had this horrid resemblence to dirty, wet feed.

 

[MAXX RS4]

Yeah, I never thought vinegar had such a pungent scent. It's slowly getting less and less strong, but at first it had this horrid resemblence to dirty, wet feed.

If you pressure wash it with woollite it will remove any trace of the vinegar smell. You can also use enzymatic odor removers to be positive. To dry, just hang it out in the sun or bring it to a laundromat that has a low-heat tumbling cycler.

Or you could spend hours with a hair drier

 

[AmBo]

What exactly do you mean for pressure wash?

Also, I need to find a tool to take the bolt off the seat belt. ugh. that big old hole is a PITA!

 

[hotmustang331]

Wow, so you left the bottle in your car....it got hot and then BOOM? bad news...and a note to self. Good luck!

 

[jstreet0204]

I agree with the guy that mentioned baking soda. I'd mix it with water, then pour it over the area you spilled it. Then let it sit over night.

 

[imblown-ru]

yay for baking soda and vinegar..haha sounds like a high school science project