Exxon Valdez in my trunk:

[speeder]

Like the guy who Armorall'ed his tire tread, here is your *dipschit of the day* story, and it's me.

A 5 liter bottle of expensive synthetic oil in the carpet of my trunk. Still trying to figure out the cleanup on this, might have to call the people who squeegee the ducks and pelicans after the oil pipelines burst.

And since I'm sure you're wondering, it's my commute on Angeles Crest plus Angeles Forrest @ high G force, (fun road), plus oil container sliding around in trunk, ( it hopped out of its bin), plus a garden loper in trunk that punctured it.

[craigster59]

If I'm not mistaken they use 55 gal drums of Dawn dish detergent for cleaning the oil off of wildlife. Maybe water, Dawn and a wet vac can get a lot of that up. Is that the Saab?

[UconnTim97]

Can you replace the carpet and dispose of that one? That might be the easiest route.

[craigster59]

Hey Denis, I was going to call you but since you started this thread I'll just link it here:
Price check on 1972 MBZ 350SL

Different car than the 450SL we talked about. It will be for sale, let me know if you or anyone you know is interested. Now back to our regularly scheduled thread, "As The Oil Churns".

[Steve Carlton]

Whipped up a new avatar for you...

[stinkindiesel]

I've got a better one. Try a full liter of brake fluid. Unfortunately, I didn't notice the bottle had split until I saw it leaking down the rear bumper of the 914. Took all the paint off the trunk floor, the bumper, and the rear valance.

Gary

[McLovin]

No way to get that out of the carpet, just replace it with a clean used carpet.

[Steve Carlton]

Carpeting sucks. Put in some nice hardwood flooring.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

Carpeting sucks. Put in some nice hardwood flooring.

Or maybe tile!

If you lived in Florida I would suggest a gallon of gasoline then a shop vac to suck it back out. It would make for some great headlines. A Florida man.....

[onewhippedpuppy]

Oops that sucks. New carpet time!

[speeder]

Originally Posted by UconnTim97

Can you replace the carpet and dispose of that one? That might be the easiest route.

Ah, yeah, the carpet is not save-able. I'm trying to figure out how to get as much of the oil out of my car as possible. I also know that some dishwashing liquid will be involved, (Dawn or other brand, they all work the same).

I've got a messy job ahead of me, don't really need advice on cleaning it. Just wanted to point out my stupidity.

[MBAtarga]

Pull the carpet - then spread powder oil absorbent around - pulverize the pellets/granules as best you can to maximize absorbency and get most of the liquid remaining. Then resort to Dawn, etc. to clean up the residue.

[911skipper]

Originally Posted by MBAtarga

Pull the carpet - then spread powder oil absorbent around - pulverize the pellets/granules as best you can to maximize absorbency and get most of the liquid remaining. Then resort to Dawn, etc. to clean up the residue.

I did this once then used a carpet steamer a couple of times ...
good to go. No spots at all.

[Steve Carlton]

[masraum]

I had gear oil spill in a removable trunk carpet once. I think I used go-jo or one of it's analogs, hand cleaner for mechanics, and after 2 or 3 times, it was out.

[speeder]

Steve, lol.

I can tell you for sure that none of that oil is going in my shop vac.

[faverymi]

[Scott Douglas]

Reminds me of the time I used an old milk carton (plastic, pop-on lid type) to take used motor oil to the recycler. Spilled in the back of my wife's station wagon. Opps.

At least yours was clean oil.

[speeder]

Haha.

I need one of those killer plastic mats that has raised sides for the crap I put in my trunk. This was in my 2006 Jetta TDI which pulls some pretty shocking G's on the ACH. I had a new Mustang GT give me a wave-by last night, I had the tires warmed up pretty good.

[greglepore]

And it was GOOD oil too. Throw some of those crude eating microbes in there.


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