Need Help....First time I came across this...

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De WALTER

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Whats good fellas, Hope everyone had a fun and safe 4th of July.

I got a call today from a young lady whose parents will be returning from Spain later this week but she has a major problem. A week ago she went to the grocery store and forgot a full raw chicken in the trunk (hatchback). She left to the lake house for the week and came home today to a funky smell. Due to the 100+ Temp in Vegas all last week plus added another 10-20 degrees in the garage. When I got there about 6:30am I could smell something weird about 10ft from the garage. I checked the trunk and there is a bit of leakage the size of a basketball, I am not worried about that but the smell, I can't descibe it!



2007 Dodge Magnum Cloth seats

My plan is to pull the carpets and seats so they can be clean hand scrubed and disinfected. Wipe down everything with a enzyme based cleaner and a little prayer.



Should I bomb the car?

Inject the seat w/ enzymes?

Should I tell her to pretend the car got stole? j/k

What do I Charge? by hour or job

I got 3 days.



Thanks in advance for your help!!!

Walter
 
by the hour for time you actually work on the car, not while you work on another car while the bomb is doing its thing...



I would ask her to drop the car off at your place and work on it as you can...leave the windows down the whole time as well...overnight lay some baking soda on coffee filters under the seats too.



someone left fish in the back of their car and called me for the same thing...I passed on it.
 
toyotaguy said:
by the hour for time you actually work on the car, not while you work on another car while the bomb is doing its thing...



I would ask her to drop the car off at your place and work on it as you can...leave the windows down the whole time as well...overnight lay some baking soda on coffee filters under the seats too.



someone left fish in the back of their car and called me for the same thing...I passed on it.
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Baking soda on coffee filters I would of never thought of that, you the man, Thanks again
 
I came across the same problem before but it was milk, the clean up was easy but the smell was tough. Your from Vegas, thats where my parents stay, well actually Henderson. Anyways check into a enzyme based odor eliminator, you can use it to wipe everything down and inject the stain so the enzymes get into pad below the carpet in the trunk. Toyotaguy is right charge by the hour on time just spent on that job! but honestly it took me 2 days to get rid of the smell and a half of gallon of product. Good Luck



1+ baking soda and coffee filters
 
Many different tactics can be used, but it's good that you have several days with the vehicle since each method takes time to work.



1) Heated extractor. Shampoo the hell out of the affected area.



2) Throw some baking soda on it if you want, it won't hurt.



3) An enzyme odour decontaminator will help. Personally, I'd probably try a Dakota odour bomb applied directly to the affected area, then follow up a few hours later with an Auto Shocker and let that go overnight.





There's lots of other options too like ozone generation, etc. Basically the most important part is removing the contamination to start with, which IMO needs an extractor for this particular scenario.
 
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