Best Interior Cleaner for Cicada Explosion?

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scottkay

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I was heading towards downtown Cincinnati at about 70MPH with my window down - a mistake - and a cicada hit my forearm and bounced up into the window slit on the driver's door where it exploded. A white gooey mess with flecks of black and orange traced from my white shirt to the window slit to my headrest to the rear seat and then to the rear window. What a mess!



I was not able to clean it up for a few hours and it hardened in the heat. Some of it is still stuck in the various parts of the car, especially in the cloth underneath the rear window.



The remarkable part of the story is that when I got out of the car downtown, at least 5 minutes after impact, I found intact the head and a little part of the upper body with some legs and it was still "alive" and kicking ... no kidding.
 
There was another active thread today talking about Detail King Spot Shot. Sounds like a job for it.



P.S. I'm just down the river from you in KY. Maysville area to be more accurate. There are a couple of other members here in KY. Maybe one of these days we could put together a meet. Scottwax's kids live just down the road in Dry Ridge so he'll be bringing them back late summer for school and maybe we could coordinate with his time period and let him show us how to really detail a car!
 
Sounds like a Columbia Parkway problem.



I made the mistake about two weeks ago of heading into town after rush hour at about 70 (or so) with the TOP DOWN.



Not only did I get giant splatters of bug guts all over the front of the car and windshield (they really make a big noise when they hit the windshield at 70), any time I stopped they were flying all around me inside the car.



I took a different route home.



As for your particular question, I don't know.
 
Too much info man. Now I gotta drop my cereal and wipe that image off of my head. Yukk. Good luck. Wish I could help.
 
holy moley...columbia pkwy is one of the worst in the city! i'm in mt. lookout and dread having to drive columbia anywhere...they just zoom back and forth over the road hitting everything in sight!



ugh. they need to go away now.
 
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~One man’s opinion / observations ~



Brush area with an upholstery brush and then wipe area with damp Microfiber towel and 303Cleaner & Spot Remover. Follow with 303 High Tech Fabric Guard



~Hope this helps~



Experience unshared; is knowledge wasted…/ Jon

justadumbarchitect * so I question everything *
 
Autoeng - I think that is a great idea. I know where you are and I take my nephew to the Dry Ridge Flea Market about once a month so I am familiar with that area too. To see the master at work would be nice.



TOGWT - That sounds like a good plan but I will have to find substitute products for 303 because I was unable to find any of it around here a few months ago. About 80% of it came up easily enough but in doing that I ended up rubbing the rest into the fabric.



On a related subject, I did another not so smart thing last week and that is leave a tuna fish dish in the trunk of the car in the heat and I forgot about it. Even though the dish was wrapped in plastic, it left a terrible stench that has made its way from the trunk into the interior and I cannot get rid of it. In the summer heat, the stench is terrible. Any suggestions? Thanks again.
 
Quote: On a related subject, I did another not so smart thing last week and that is leave a tuna fish dish in the trunk of the car in the heat and I forgot about it. Even though the dish was wrapped in plastic, it left a terrible stench that has made its way from the trunk into the interior and I cannot get rid of it. In the summer heat, the stench is terrible. Any suggestions?



~One man’s opinion / observations ~



Smells and Odours:

What is that smell! No I’m not talking about a new cars leather smell, but the odour from a vehicle’s interior that has been used as a moving fast food cafeteria and has a lingering odour from French fries, spilled milk, or misplaced baby diapers or wet pets, use a porous volcanic lava rock (Zeolite®) as it’s a natural odour-neutralizing mineral that’s non-toxic and environmentally safe. Absorbs odours and musty air stale air. Reduces noxious oil and gasoline fumes, when it no longer works heat (the sun or a microwave) will regenerate it. Sprinkle carpets and floor mats with baking soda, as this will also help to absorb smells



~Hope this helps~



Experience unshared; is knowledge wasted…/ Jon

justadumbarchitect * so I question everything *
 
Does anyone know where to get Zeolite at a retail store?



Actually, the incident happened on I71 South near the Dana Ave exit - I think that area is a close second to Columbia Parkway.
 
I was in Lexington, KY yesterday and I have never heard anything like it before in my entire life.....can't wait for them to come to Saint Louis.:rolleyes:
 
We've been really lucky (knocks on simulated wood) in that this batch of cicadas seem to be missing our area. I had the year pegged at 2008 for my area so it appears that I'm going to be correct. If I'm right we will be getting brood 8 which are monsterous suckers! Brood X really aren't that big at all compared to these devils.







RE: Kentucky / Ohio detailers meet.



I'll send Scott a pm to see if he would be interested and if so I'll start a thread to start generating interest and opinions.
 
scottkay said:
Autoeng - I think that is a great idea. I know where you are and I take my nephew to the Dry Ridge Flea Market about once a month so I am familiar with that area too. To see the master at work would be nice.
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Small world! My kids live in Dry Ridge, I was just there getting one (the other has summer school and will be out in 4 weeks) for the summer! I should be back there in late July.



Maybe y'all can hold off on a meet until then?



On a related subject, I did another not so smart thing last week and that is leave a tuna fish dish in the trunk of the car in the heat and I forgot about it. Even though the dish was wrapped in plastic, it left a terrible stench that has made its way from the trunk into the interior and I cannot get rid of it. In the summer heat, the stench is terrible. Any suggestions? Thanks again.
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If TOGWT suggestion does not work, you may need to find a detail shop with an ozone generator which should completely remove the smell.



For spot cleaning your interior, mix up 6 parts water and 1 part Woolite (yes, the liquid laundry soap) in a spray bottle. Clean scent and it cleans great!
 
I'll post a thread to gauge general interest in an Ohio / KY meet. If it returns good results we'll start getting more specific with timeframe and location.
 
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