HELP! How can I get rid of the smell of spilt milk!?
 

The wife spilt milk in her car last week, and was complaining about a bit of a smell in her car.
Having driven it on Friday I confirmed that - it's like driving an old camembert - very unpleasant cheesy niff.:freak3:

So I got the vax out. The milk spilt in 2 places on the rear boot carpet, so I did the lot, and used carpet shampoo and foam 3 times. No joy. So I febreze'd it today as well.

And the bloody thing still smells fairly bad! :mad:
Any ideas ladies and gents? This is driving me mad and I want to get bad to driving a car rather than a cheese lol.

not sure tbh, just no point crying over it :DD:

Try TCP or antibacteria cleaner or baby sterelizer

carpet need to come out :( ....and jet wash or your only gonna mask the smell...and it never really goes to

good one.

Got to be worth a go! Thanks for that, will do.

C17RPA - to get the carpet out I have to remove the rear seats believe it or not :( so would rather try and get rid of it using a more conventional cleaning method if at all possible! Seat obviously thought you'd NEVER want to get the boot carpet out sharpish.. :cuckoo:

I knew it would only be a matter of time.... :Whatever_

bicarbonate of soda - liberally sprinkled over...

I did hear that one suggested - what do you do? Sprinkle it, then vacuum it out a few days later?

Vinegar:thumb:

Try Autosmart Bio Brisk, Designed exactly for this sort of thing
Valet Shop - Categories > Interior > AutoSmart - BioBrisk

We had Jaguar at work where someone had spilt milk on the boot floor. Our Valeters used virtually every Auto smart and Auto Glym product and couldn't shift the smell. In the end we just bought a new boot Carpet from the dealers.

my dad bought a clio back in 2002 it was a 1999 on a V plate that had been written off as a cat d (no joke) because of spilt milk a 6 pinter had spilt from the back and seeped into the front. my dad is an upholstery cleaner and bought it thinking he could sort it out. we drove from the auction house to home with all the windows open as it was that bad. 6 nearly 7 years later and the carpets have been replaced you can still smell it in the morning! Good luck! lol

Buy an ioniser.

Go here:

Ozone Units > Direct Hygiene Supplies

It's the one at the top - £25 quid, mains operated.

We used them for getting rid of the smell of fresh fish that had been carried in a refrigerated artic trailer so you could use it for another product afterwards. Before that, we had an expensive refrigerated trailer dedicated to a twice a week fish run. We bought an industrial version that cost £300 but it saved spending £30K or whatever on another trailer so well worth the money.

Hotels use them for when people have been sick or smoked in rooms too.

I recently bought a used car with a pong so I bought the Neutralair and fixed that problem and I now use it in the kitchen to get rid of cooking smells where it is very effective, so you can use it afterwards once you have treated the car.

They work by passing air in low volume over a heated bar that adds an extra molecule of oxygen so instead of having O2 you get O3. That extra oxygen molecule kills the smell by sterilising it.

You need to leave the device in the car for at least a day. You will notice a metallic tang to the air, but that soon dissipates.

Oh dear, let us know how you get on. I had a car that a Tom cat appeared to have p1ssed in once and never could get rid of smell. :D

I am sure milk wont be so bad though.

Sprinkle it on, Rub it in, leave for a day
Hoover it out

If the smell / stain remains - Repeat the above... :thumb:

The smell will never go. My grandad did the same in his car.
10 years later it still smelt when you first got in.

I would replace the carpet.

This works, a few drops in the water and clean the areas effected.

Have you tried starving a cat and then locking it in your car for a few hours?

:P

Vash

Replace the carpet - don't throw good money away on cleaning products ;)

Rgds Red.

I had milk spilt on a back seat, the valeter who sorted it reckoned only steam cleaning it would work, well whatever he did it worked!

Simon

steamcleaning is the best way IMO as ti kills the bacteria that makes the smell

wall paper stripper is all you need ( the steam type, not the brush on fluid you can buy )

Have heard Autosmart's Bio Brisk can work with
these kind of things. Get over to 'Detailing World',
there's alot of very helpful professional valeter's and detailers
that can steer you in the right direction :thumb:
Craig.

After reading this lot, takes me back a few weeks ago to when i hired a Transit van to move some gear and when i picked it up from the hirer i noticed it was brand new and the floor area was like a rubberised material.
Looked pretty neat and tidy, and i got to thinking, wish my car had the same material, so much easier to keep clean than carpets. Just makes so much sense to me, just a quick wipe down with a damp cloth. I could still have my Subaru mats, and if they get soiled just whip em out and give em a quick once over.

Thanks for the advice everyone. The bicarbonate of soda didn't seem to do the trick so I'll see if I can borrow a steam cleaner and see if that'll do it. Failing that I'll try TCP and if that doesn't work, then I'll change the carpet (but I'm hoping it won't come to that...).

Amazing how something so small can cause so much grief!

Personally wouldn't put tcp in my car it has a very powerful smell
meaning you might replace one minging odour for another ??

Detailing World

Try Bio-brisk first mate, it's a purpose designed cleaner for these exact
problems. The B-B sample clicky is near the bottom of the list. It's doesn't cost the earth so it's worth a go eh ?? Good luck
Craig.

I spilt abot 1pt of milk in the boot of my Spec C last week: By the time I got home from Tescos it had all come out from gaps underneath the boot well onto the road & was almost all finished dripping by the time I got home. I just gave the area a quick wipe & bobs your uncle no smell...so there are some advantages to a no carpet/frills Spec C after all!!