What A Mess!!!!!!!!!!!

[jpzapata]

Didn`t know where to put this but I bet this is not a common thing I run to everyday. But check this mess out. Customer had a gallon of CLOROX in the back of his car and in a sharp curve he smashed it. It spilled allover the back and under his back seat. Well as you can imagine the smell is horrible and after being in ther for two seconds you feel like you have bees sprayed with pepper spray. Its his brand new Mercedes and it is only 6 months old. Felt bad for the guy. Not much I could do to help just extract as much as I could to get the smell out. But as you can see it even ate a hle throught the carpet. Crazy huh?

Sorry for the bad pics but forgot my camera again and had to do it with my camphone

[Antonio Waxer]

Rip the carpet out and replace it..cleaning it will not be possible

[Beemerboy]

I`m going with Antonio Waxer fastest way to fix it is replace and get yourself a bed liner with a cargo net!

[jpzapata]

thats what i told him but he didnt want to do that untill he went to the dealer since it is a lease. But we were trying to see if we could lessen the smell. But I know that thing is a gonner :flamed

[Boss_429]

thats what i told him but he didnt want to do that untill he went to the dealer since it is a lease.

He`s got an expensive problem there. The dealer will hit him for a bill of a few grand for that fix!

[Laurel]

get some grey spray paint. lol

[G35stilez]

get some grey spray paint. lol

They make carpet dye. For the smell, just extract it with hot water a few times and keep the windows open often. You can make this work .

[rollman]

Man thats one expenisive bottle of clorox . , On a side note .
JP make sure you raise out what ever you used to extract that mess with real good .

[jpzapata]

I told him that he has the most sanitised car I have ever seen. Got to look at the bright side

[stainbuster]

Unfortunately, replacing the carpet is the only acceptable solution.

The bleach will continue to eat the fibers all the way down to the backing to the point where there will be bald spots where the bleach was.

Dyeing is not an option, either with paint or SEM dyes (may look/last for a little while, but a M-B owner will probably not want the feel/look of stiff carpet, and eventually, (since the fibers will be brittle) the painted fibers WILL flake off. Plus, color matching will be tough.

Dyeing with and acid-based powder mixed with water, such as the type used at the carpet mills, (this is the type we use) and by professional recon people will not yeild great success either, as the areas where the bleach has been spilled will not "take" the dye.

Most automotive carpets are made primarily of nylon, with boron coatings for fire-retardation. Each fiber contains thousands of hollow "dye-cites" that this dye will adhere to. The bleach has damaged these dye-cites. In some cases, the gray dye will turn red, brown, or purple on the areas where the bleach was.

We`ve been dyeing carpets for over five years, trust me, for an M-B owner, nothing short of replacing the carpet will be satisfactory.

Regards,

Mike

[jpzapata]

How about a gallon of gasoline and a match. :flamed

[WuNgUn]

I had this very same thing happen in my SVT Focus!
Had a bottle of bleach in the cargo net of the trunk (brand new bottle)...it tipped over, AND the lid was loose...
It sat over night, AND most of the next day running onto my trunk carpeting/under the back seats...
It smelled more like chlorine from a pool more than bleach...
But the amazing thing is, when I finally pulled the bottle out of the hatch, there was NO bleach damage at all, apart from that smell!
Carpets were perfectly fine!
I dunno what Ford uses for carpet material, but I thank them!

[Laurel]

compressed newspaper.