So unfortunately my mom spilled a whole mug of coffee in the back seat carpet floor. To make matters worse, she didn't know it was spilled and sat like that for basically 12 hours. Some went on the all weather floor mats, the rest on the carpet, and the rest on the car floor carpet. It must had been a whole mug because the all weather had a bunch of sitting coffee on it, then the carpet was saturated in coffee after 12 hours, and so was underneath the carpet (the floor).
I cleaned the floor saturating it with water and drying it with paper towel for 1/2 hour (went through more than 1 paper towel rolls and still shows some brown on the paper towel). used folex, the paper towel, used mother carpet upholstery, rubbed with rag, cleaned with water, and dry, and also filled a few buckets and just cleaned with dish soap, then dry with paper towels. It's better, but I can still smell the coffee. I don't know what else to do to clean it more and try and get the new car smell from that area back and remove the coffee sweet smell.
Then carpets and cleaned in the bathtub awhile with dish soap...most of it came out good including the smell but kept soaking, etc, but still some of the edges have a little tiny bit of that sweet coffee smell.
The all weather floor rubber mat I cleaned with dish soap several times in the bathtub, but the coffee sweet smell is still there on the rubber. It doesn't smell like that rubber smell and has the lingering coffee smell.
Any ideas what more I can do to clean and get rid of the smell? I am probably doing a little overboard now, but still want to clean it more because I can smell it especially the rubber mat and the car floor mat...but maybe not as much the floor because that was easiest to clean.
I heard heat keeps in stains. I heard oxy is really bad. I heard vinegar mixed with water is good, but then I hate the vinegar smell and don't want the car smelling like vinegar. Would prefer anything that will bring back the new car smell. The floor carpet mats are already starting to get back that original smell, but don't know about the rest.
Any suggestions what else I can do?
I cleaned the floor saturating it with water and drying it with paper towel for 1/2 hour (went through more than 1 paper towel rolls and still shows some brown on the paper towel). used folex, the paper towel, used mother carpet upholstery, rubbed with rag, cleaned with water, and dry, and also filled a few buckets and just cleaned with dish soap, then dry with paper towels. It's better, but I can still smell the coffee. I don't know what else to do to clean it more and try and get the new car smell from that area back and remove the coffee sweet smell.
Then carpets and cleaned in the bathtub awhile with dish soap...most of it came out good including the smell but kept soaking, etc, but still some of the edges have a little tiny bit of that sweet coffee smell.
The all weather floor rubber mat I cleaned with dish soap several times in the bathtub, but the coffee sweet smell is still there on the rubber. It doesn't smell like that rubber smell and has the lingering coffee smell.
Any ideas what more I can do to clean and get rid of the smell? I am probably doing a little overboard now, but still want to clean it more because I can smell it especially the rubber mat and the car floor mat...but maybe not as much the floor because that was easiest to clean.
I heard heat keeps in stains. I heard oxy is really bad. I heard vinegar mixed with water is good, but then I hate the vinegar smell and don't want the car smelling like vinegar. Would prefer anything that will bring back the new car smell. The floor carpet mats are already starting to get back that original smell, but don't know about the rest.
Any suggestions what else I can do?
. I will keep you guys posted too.