I brought home some king crab legs form the store the other night and put the bag on the passenger side floor mat. I thought all was well since it was double bagged in plastic, no chace of it leaking right? Wrong. Once I got home I took the bag out and noticed it leaked all over my floor mats, WTF! So needless to say I tried using pretty much every carpet cleaner and deotorizer I have in the house to get the fishy stench out, but to no avail. Anyone know of a good product that will get the smell out without ruining my mat?

 

Take your mats out, hose them down with water and laundry detergent (color safe), then rinse about 4 times to get all of the detergent out, hang somewhere to dry, leave your windows down with a fan blowing inside your car while you are doing all of this, make sure the liquid didnt sink into the actual fabric in the car as well. Should Do the trick.

 

Used to get rid of... Well the name of it kinda gives it away... It does remove all scents from cars tho

 

^awesome

 

Febreeze, any scent.

 

You're lucky it's just the matt. My aunt once had seafood for lunch and took the leftovers with her. She left them in interior of her new Infinity Q45 over the entire afternoon an evening of a very hot day. She actually had to get rid of the car because even after 3 steam cleanings they couldn't get the smell out to her liking. I never got to smell the car to actually see how bad it was but to this day I never take seafood leftovers home.

 

Take out the stained mats and toss em, or try and clean em. Your choice on that one.




For the interior smell of the car, get two boxes of baking soda and open them and leave em in your car over night.

 

 

Thanks for the tips, I'll give them a try. Fortunatly It's just mat, once I took it out of the car, the smell went away.

 

Sprinkle baking soda on all your carpet, sprinkle a lot on the floor mat, leave the box with the rest of the baking soda in the car. Continue applying baking soda every couple of days to the carpet and floor mat until smell is gone. Vacum when done.

But just to be sure, dump a pretty good amount of baking soda into a small tupperware bowl and leave it under the passenger seat forever. I keep one under the passenger seat and the drivers seat, and I have never spilled anything in my car. I just keep them in there to soak up any funky smells.

 

Might f up the color by hydrogen peroxide also works.

 

Most interior fabrics are colorfast. My ex spilled an entire bottle of pure laundry bleach in the back seat of my xB. I FREAKED OUT thinking it was going to totally bleach it. After drying, it didn't do a damn thing to it, if anything cleaned it really well.

She got off lucky!

 

i've had good luck with febreeze auto. it doesn't smell too strong or girly, and it has always gotten rid of odors for me.

 

Good tip, I'm going to do the same. They make special boxes of the stuff for putting in your refrigerator for the same purpose. You just peel the sides away and it has a special film to keep the baking soda in, but still absorb the smells. Gonna put some in my cars, too. Never thought about that.

 

I'm a 'girl' EVO owner, and I'm known as the stain and odour remover expert.
The best way to rid of stains and smells is with one of two things...First is with Oxyclean...take the mats to the laundry mat and use powdered Oxyclean in addition to the detergent....it 'may' slightly take out color but not too badly and will not stain like bleach would. The second is with pet stain removers...they contain enzymes that naturally break down 'organic'(natural) waste (which would include fishy things)...spray the carpet with this pet spray deoderizer and then wash the carpets afterwards. It all depends on whether the liquid went through the mats onto the rugs in the car. If this happened, then wash the rugs with oxyclean, and then steamclean the rugs in the car rug with Oxyclean (make the oxyclean powder into a liquid form and add in the detergent compartment instead of using detergent in the machine)....it might discolor slightly, but it will be uniform. If you go the pet spray route (easier), and it went through the mats, then saturate the carpets below with the same pet spray...the best pet spray is called "urine-off", www.urine-off.com and you can buy it online or through the shopping channels in the U.S. and Canada...it isn't cheap, but it's enzymes are really good.
These are the only things that will work....trust me...don't want that smell in your car for the rest of your life which will happen if you don't destroy the protein/organic waste. Know that people who own pets that have been sprayed with organic (skunk) smell this for years afterwards and you don't want this in your car....you need to destroy the base of the problem, and not cover it with flower sprays (including things like febrese)...