Well the title pretty much sums it up. I volunteered to be the Designated Driver for the night & to thank me my wife pukes all over the inside of the car. For an hour.

After hosing her off and getting her to bed I scraped up the worst of it. She was decent enough to give it a real college try at cleaning the next morning. Several hours of scrubbing later it looked a lot better but the next day the smell still lingers.

I know there are some hardcore interior people here and I'm begging for some advice on how to get rid of this smell! It was piled on my leatherette seats & the liquid soaked into the carpet. It sprayed on every plastic surface from front to back. I even found bits on the headliner…

God this sucks…

 

time to pull the seats and carpet.... I know from experience

 

Wow, that sucks, Russell. Could you use this as an excuse to get a pair of racing seats? and I'm serious. While you are swapping the seats you can pull out the carpet, do a little scrubbing and put some new stuff in. As for the headliner, it just remain as an eternal reminder...

 

She owes you at least new racing seats!!!!

 

Oddly enough I was thinking the same thing about the racing seats…

I'm pricing professional cleaning shops & some of them are as high as $1200. That's still less than the cost of new seats…

 

Ugh… Well at least this is one situation where she will actually help me.

What cleaning product finally worked for you?

 

yes Racing seats! haha they small great!

but yes i feel your pain.... i have a dog.....

i just bought carpet scrub shampoo and went to town... a few bottles of that, and a bottle of car air freshener and its back to normal... but yeah mine wasnt as severe as your indecent...

I feel your paint man...

 

+1

 

Nature's Miracle. Bioenzymes - Takes feces and urine, blow and puke out and does not harm carpet, plastic, or fabrics.

 

blow?

 

Thanks everyone!

 

Small steam cleaner works (I'm a frequent DD). Maybe not on the headliner or leatherette though. As for the smell, if the steamcleaner doesn't get rid of it, I just leave the car locked up with a few dryer sheets (bounce) on the floor and within a few days, the car smells like clean laundry.

 

I hear drugs are really bad for the carpet.....

i know....i'll stop

 

Yes, this really is heading in the wrong direction, but funny...
Steam cleaning sounds like its worth a shot.
...and as for Nature's Miracle--Im not so sure. Does that guy who yells in all his ads (the OxyClean guy) sell it? I want some if that's the case.
And two racing seats will cost you a lot, but it's economic stimulus time
(and we come back to blow.)

 

To do it right, pull your seats, cause the smell will linger in every nook and crevice...think seat belt clip receptacles...under the rails etc..

Baking Soda will help deodorize it as well. Sprinkled on the carpet and stored under the seats for awhile..as long as it doesn't spill all over, lol.

A commercial hot water extractor is a great thing to have to get rid of it deep in the fabrics.

Try posting this in Detailing101..or a link to this thread for additional info.

Richard

 

The results of a spit take.

Trust me on this one. The Nature's Miracle has taken care of two toddlers and two 85 lbs dogs that thought the interior of an SUV was a popular accident playground. This stuff is found in most pet stores. It is not hawked like Oxyclean.

Richard is right about the pull and clean, but, I really recommend you use this stuff as it does not mask or neutralize the organic bacteria that cause the smell. It eats the stuff. Once gone it disappears since it no longer has a food source. Damn interesting solution.

 

...I really am sorry, but the way you told the story was hilarious...

 

What the heck is a hot water extractor? Is that like a steam cleaner?

 

Nature's Miracle is an amazing product. It does what it claims and eliminates organic matter. It gets cat **** out of the carpet and dog poo off of shoes.

 

Hahaha, I believe you would be referring to Billy Mays who truly does yell in every single one of his infomercials.

Man.....I think the wife owes you big time! Are you two still currently speaking?!?! Lol, I mean, the way you described it sounds like an "Exorcism" moment!!!

 

An extractor is something that all detailers, especially those that do a lot of interiors have in their toolset. It has a water reservoir that gets heated to 200 degrees. It shoot water into fabrics to loosen dirt and oils and contaminants, and immediately it's sucked back in with a very high powered wet/vac that leaves the fabric mostly dry.

It's like a steam cleaner and wet/vac combined. The one I have cost me $800.

Richard

 

I can't believe nobody has asked this yet.

What.... half an hour wasn't enough to convince you to get her the hell out of the car ??

You must really love that woman.

 

I have a Bissel Green Machine upholstery cleaner...like a miniature carpet shampoo machine. I have used it many times in the car for various spills and it works great. I use hot water in the holding tank mixed with the carpet/upholstery cleaner mix....pull the trigger to spray, scrub with the brush on the wand, then suck it out. They don't cost all that much and I have used it for every part of the house. With a Black Lab and a Weimaraner, I've gotten my money's worth out of it many times over for the car and the furniture. They are less than $100 I think.

Like they said above, you will probably want to take the seats out to get access to all the spots.

Good luck.

 

I gotta tell you, I asked myself this Q also. What, it was snowing, raining, outside? You hosed her down when she got home, so what would a little water have done either to her, or the car? You should have got her out of the car within a nanosecond...

Still, I'm sure you'll tell us why not.

 

Does she know you brought this to our attention????