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Just switch carpets with your daughter when shes not home. When she says her cars stinks, keep a straight face and say, "what do you spill?"
 
Umm... You don't know my daughter LOL.... I love driving the 93 because it's so smooth and a great runner.

I don't very often because she could have been the one who owned my 94 for at one time LOL... She is the worse at keeping a car clean and has had many spills that I've cleaned up after they had a chance to set in for a while... I don't know why she will not clean out her car.
 
Yikes. Different priorities I guess. I'm not a total wipe it down weekly neat freak, but theres no spilling or any garbage left in my cars. Actually I haven't cleaned my LSE interior since I bought it a year ago. Its due and a bit dusty, but I've never spilled and theres no garbage in it ever. Couple stray frys between the seats maybe.
 
Hey, I've tried very hard to keep up with her and keep it clean... I just can't get her to understand why one should do it... Right now there are more clothes and rappers than anything else. She's done better on the spillage..

Oh and by the way the fabric softener idea did wonders...

I mixed a few ounces of fabric softener in a spray bottle with water..

Killed the smell and made the carpet nice and soft. LOL...
 
mespock said:
Hey, I've tried very hard to keep up with her and keep it clean... I just can't get her to understand why one should do it... Right now there are more clothes and rappers than anything else. She's done better on the spillage..

Oh and by the way the fabric softener idea did wonders...

I mixed a few ounces of fabric softener in a spray bottle with water..

Killed the smell and made the carpet nice and soft. LOL...
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Rappers?!? Yo yo "torquey m" on the Mike!

The fabric softener work for you, good to hear. During the hot months, dryer sheets in the glove box of under the seats work wonders too. Old lot Tech. trick from back in the day. Some fellas would put them in the A/C air return to get the most benefit from the aroma. Could get stuck and/or limit air flow, just a thought.
 
torquemonkey said:
Rappers?!? Yo yo "torquey m" on the Mike!

The fabric softener work for you, good to hear. During the hot months, dryer sheets in the glove box of under the seats work wonders too. Old lot Tech. trick from back in the day. Some fellas would put them in the A/C air return to get the most benefit from the aroma. Could get stuck and/or limit air flow, just a thought.
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Yo torquey, get off Mike, and on the mic.

JK
 
mespock said:
Hey, I've tried very hard to keep up with her and keep it clean... I just can't get her to understand why one should do it... Right now there are more clothes and rappers than anything else. She's done better on the spillage..

Oh and by the way the fabric softener idea did wonders...

I mixed a few ounces of fabric softener in a spray bottle with water..

Killed the smell and made the carpet nice and soft. LOL...
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Your daughter hangs out with rappers? Anyone famous? How many fit in a MarkVIII?

Sorry.
 
mespock said:
Hey, I've tried very hard to keep up with her and keep it clean... I just can't get her to understand why one should do it... Right now there are more clothes and rappers than anything else. She's done better on the spillage..

Oh and by the way the fabric softener idea did wonders...

I mixed a few ounces of fabric softener in a spray bottle with water..

Killed the smell and made the carpet nice and soft. LOL...
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Rich, is the fabric softener still working? My red car has that musty smell from sitting too long also.

I removed the carpet and power washed it 2 months ago and that helped a lot. While the carpet was out (about a week) I could still smell the musty odor in the car though.

I'm thinking my odor is coming from the headliner.

Maybe I could spray it with fabric softener too?
 
billcu said:
Rich, is the fabric softener still working? My red car has that musty smell from sitting too long also.

I removed the carpet and power washed it 2 months ago and that helped a lot. While the carpet was out (about a week) I could still smell the musty odor in the car though.

I'm thinking my odor is coming from the headliner.

Maybe I could spray it with fabric softener too?
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It worked what I've been doing is at least once a week spraying it with some cover smell and the bad musty smell is leaving.

The fabric softener really did a great job of grabbing hold of the oder and killing most of it. Then there was that little bit that just lingered. Now she's smelling 100% better.
 
All this talk about removing the seats and scrubbing, and then with the expensive cleaning equipment and strange chemical concoctions. Isn't new carpet about 100 bucks?
 
JayBay said:
All this talk about removing the seats and scrubbing, and then with the expensive cleaning equipment and strange chemical concoctions. Isn't new carpet about 100 bucks?
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Shhh, thats way less effort. If my '64 is an example of how "pre-formed" carpet is the norm, I would clean what I have in the car. Fighting to get the carpet in place and fit the tunnel right was quite a chore.
 
Mequair's Marine/RV Carpet cleaner (M7321) under $15.00- spray can is great stuff - made for vehicles that are not used much and really removes old musty odors.

If really bad use Meguiar's Car Oder Eliminator (G2310) under $5.00. Worked great on a week old milk spill in my daughter's computer room!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.meguiars.com/estore/
 
Frat-man-du said:
Mequair's Marine/RV Carpet cleaner (M7321) under $15.00- spray can is great stuff - made for vehicles that are not used much and really removes old musty odors.

If really bad use Meguiar's Car Oder Eliminator (G2310) under $5.00. Worked great on a week old milk spill in my daughter's computer room!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.meguiars.com/estore/
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I'll have to go on a search for this stuff...

I tried something else in a friends car yesterday... (as I'm always in the search for a good deoderizer - Damn Dogs -

The Dollar General has a no vacuum pet deoderizer foam. I'll let you know how it works in a few days. Only $2.00 at the DG LOL...
 
Just remove your carpet and wash it with a hose or pressure washer. That will get rid of your smells, guaranteed.
 
MrWilson said:
my favorite is the new car pine trees. I use them in every car. They smell awesome.
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Ya, me too. I just go out to the forest and grab a bunch of needles off the tree. Come back and stuff them under the seats. Works like a charm.:D
 
Dominus makes a good point. For getting nasty mats sparkling clean, taking them out at the car wash and soaking them with the nastiest suds they have - like engine cleaner - then pressure washing for several minutes after the soak, and followed by sucking the moisture out with their vacuum works VERY well - makes them nearly new again. I would imagine if you had the main carpet out of the car and gave it the same treatment, it would have similar results. But the pressure washer is the key - I don't think a hose would cut it.
 
The pressure washer works great on the carpet. I did that to mine. I used soap first then rinsed it, then soap again and rinsed again. I draped the carpet on my Workmate stand and tried not to get the padding too wet.

Then I used my shop vac to get most of the water out and then dried it in the sun for 2 days and stored it in the house for a couple days to make sure that it was dry.

While the carpet was out of my car, I could still smell the musty smell. Not as bad though. That's why now I think it's in my headliner.
 
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