This poor woman wants me to detail her car and she`s got motor oil stuck in the trunk carpet. I was thinking degreaser and hot water extraction, anyone have any experience with this?
This poor woman wants me to detail her car and she`s got motor oil stuck in the trunk carpet. I was thinking degreaser and hot water extraction, anyone have any experience with this?
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Pull the carpet section out. Use a good APC (not 409 or Simple Green) I use PB APC..Then Shop Vac the area up best you can and use a brush to lift as much as you can. Pre-treat the area with APC at 100% and let dwell then use a stiff brush with HOT water. I get a pot of boiling water to use..soak the area and brush, then shop vac and repeat as needed.
attached are two before and afters on a car that not only had grease but years of ground in grime..The carpet when I started didn`t have a nap to it. I cleaned it using the above method.
Old Enough To Know Better, Too Stupid To Care....
Dave`s Detailing
Sonoma County, CA
If you have access to a janitorial supply distributor, 1) apply a citrus based degreaser, 2) agitate lightly to work product into the carpet fibers 3) rinse, blot and "extract". If this doesn`t remove the stain, ask for a POG product and follow the same procedure as above.
"If you get to thinkin` you`re a person of some influence, try orderin` somebody else`s dog around."
--Will Rogers
I stumbled across this product and bookmarked it a while back. I`m wondering how well it actually works because it appears to be pretty revolutionary but it`s all hype in my book until I`ve read some real testimonials.
Treat it like it`s the only one in the world.
If you can pull the carpet out and soak it with a good greaser then pressure wash it. Back when i was a mechanic I managed to pump 21 quarts of motor oil into the floorboard of a old Porsche 911. Its not often but sometimes you just have to pull the carpet.
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