estrda1

Some gear oil ended up spilling on my rear seat carpet and it smells real bad . I tried to clean it up but the smell is still there. It smells like a steel factory in my car. Is there something out there that I could use to clean up the oil that seeped through the carpet and get rid of that smell?

Lordsauran

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how did that happen? did you like have a bottle of it back there? i dont know much of what you could to to clean it except maybe try to use a steam cleaner? that might work, but im not sure

estrda1

Was running a little low on gear oil, used half a bottle up and put the bottle in the rear seat with the cap on and in a plastic bag. Was trying to do some donuts and when I got back home taddah! A pool of gear oil behind my seat.

fasteddyss

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That smell is almost impossible to get out of carpet and pad, You may need to replace the carpet and clean the floorboards.

That sucks, that smell is nasty!!

Good Luck

IMJ

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my buddy told me that you can use apple slices to get rid of smells inside your car i would try that before you replace your carpet....

ProjectCamaro

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I hope you can get it out without changing the carpet, I remember last time I changed the gears out. My clothes smelled so bad for so long.

IMJ

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check this site out my girlfriend sent me this site about getting smells out of carpet.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=10581

dragonZ28

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Pull up your carpet, and tear out the padding underneath the area. Then, use some Febreeze on the spill, and follow up with a steam-cleaning and another shot of Febreeze. You can get the smell out, but it will take some work.

estrda1

Thanks for the ideas. Ill try the apple slices and the baking soda if worse comes to worse, maybe the charcoal. Does anybody know if the rear seat carpet is easy to lift up. I guess it doesn't matter, I'll get to work this weekend.

RollTideTA

Yeah, the rear seats are hardly even attached (like one bolt on the bottoms)you won't have any trouble getting them out of the way.