spilled water, smells like shit....help..

[mkcman17]

last night the spare gallon of distilled water i keep for radiator top-offs fell over and spilled nearly half of its content onto my passenger foot-well. there was actually standing water. i used rags and tried to press up most of the water but i couldn't get nearly all of it. moved my car tonight and it smells like dirty dirty feet. bad. what do i do...?

[Dj Buttchug]

if it makes you feel better my car just rolled back into my piece of shit daily. the 30s door was open and it caught the bumper. dam near sprung my door and gave me another dent.... FML

id say you might have to pull the carpet. whats been up

[td325ic]

Absorber synthetic drying chamois would work well to soak up the water. After that it may help to undo the door sill molding and lift the carpet a few inches and let it air out, or use a heatgun/blowdryer to speed up drying. Then just park it in the sun for a few hours. Can't beat sunlight to dry things out

[mkcman17]

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that's what i did! all day in this record-breaking heat and she smells like cowpie.

and ryan...my buddy did that once...my friend was backing up beside me in the denny's parking lot and he opened his door and scared the driver who gasses it and caught on/caved in the quarter panel on my truck. his ass still owes me money for that...

[Dj Buttchug]

oh man that sucks. mines not too bad I think I can get a paintless dent guy to fix it.

I would remove the seat and see how hard it is to get the carpet up without removing everything. There are some plugs underneath the carpet. You may be able to remove the plugs in the floor from underneath the car and use a hairdryer from underneath to dry it out.

[!kid]

go to target(or a store with a good cleaning isle) and get a box of 5$ Arm & Hammer carpet deodorizer

[mkcman17]

i'm thinking it's maybe already started to mold, because it stewed overnight and cooked in the day. the seats are such a pita to bolt back in, but i'll give it a shot. and deff the deodorizer. for now i'm ax-ing it and driving with the windows down.

[margas]

Suck up as much water as you can then go rent a shampooer/extractor thing. That should get rid of the smell too. If its molding already rock some fantastic or lysol on it before.

[grays]

pour vinegar and pour it in a bowl and let it sit in your car over night or all day and it will take out the smell

also you can use baking soda

[charlescho]

just a heads up-

i had my carpet out (it was soaking wet) and it was still wet after 3 days in the socal sun

[StereoInstaller1]

My carpet got soaked last winter in the damn evil cold...well, not that cold, but like highs in the 20's. It took well over a month for the padding to dry with the carpet out of the car.

If your shit is wet, seriously consider pulling the carpet. Blast it with a pressure washer, you will at least have nice clean carpet.

[MC Hammered]

When my carpet was soaked from water seeping into the footwell the foam was so wet it felt slimy.

I pulled the carpet up, tied it up with string and had a high speed fan blow at it for a couple of days in the garage and it dried it all out.

[StereoInstaller1]

Airflow is the trick

[reelizmpro]

I dealt with this as well. First, find out why/how water is getting in. I put a towel underneath and stood on the carpet trying to get the water out of the foam. Then I got the heatgun out (be careful not to singe the carpet). I took out the seat to dry out the area under the seat as well. You don't want to leave any moisture behind. I sprayed some lysol under there and let it sit while wedging the carpet open to allow air flow underneath. Then sprinkled some baking soda.

[MC Hammered]

I forgot to mention that newspaper works best to soak up any water in the foam.

Just make a bunch of paper balls, shove them underneath the carpet, go stand on top and walk around, then place some weights on top of the carpet and let sit for a while and remove the wet paper a couple of hours later.

Repeat as necessary.