Motor Oil Stuck in the carpet...

Addicted2Bling

Addicted2Bling

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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?
 
Addicted2Bling said:
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.
 

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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.
 
Beemerboy said:
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.
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Thanks man, I went ahead and bought a whole gallon of that APC you speak of, can't wait to try it out;)
 
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.
 
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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