Removing milk smell in interior (Help)

Well, my wife is about to kill me. Sunday I had a bag of groceries fall over from the back seat to the floor in her everyday driver. Needless to say it was the milk bag with chocolate milk in it.1/2 of a gallon soaked into the rug without any knowledge of it. I will be able to remove the stains and I will have to remove the carpeting which is glued to the insulation. I intend on taking the carpeting to a car wash and go over it with a carpet steamer. Does anyone have any suggestions about using any cleaning agent to ***ure the smell is out? Boy am I in the dog house. No car for her for the weekend till everything dries.

 

Try some of that Febreeze, it takes odors away. Then, stick a couple of dryer sheets under the floor mats for awhile.

 

I used to do that type of thing when I detailed cars. Basically, the best thing to do is pull the carpet up, hopefully it's rubber-backed. IF NOT:

..pull it up and remove the "infected" Jute (padding) from underneath, and clean up the milk that is also soaking your floorboards. Replace it with good clean Jute, you can just glue it or place it there if it's a good enough piece. GET IT ALL OUT THOUGH.. that stench will take a REALLY LONG TIME, a year maybe, to go away, if it ever does. Febreze might cover it up for a bit.. but on every hot summer day... bake bake bake..

If it IS plastic/rubber backed carpeting, just scrub and clean with a little bit of soap and plenty of water. Soak it with water and scrub it w/a brush. Then take a shop vac and **** all the moisture out. lather, rinse, vacuum, repeat. Toward the end, use mostly water as leftover soap in the carpeting will attract a TON of dirt.

Good luck!

 

<font color="red">I had a pair of shoes that got soaked in milk and every time I wore them they woud smell as soon as my feet warmed up..........NASTY......I finally had to throw them out!

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Tell her it's payback for making you do "Honey-do's"

Gallon of premium and a road flare.

Have a kid, the baby barf will mask the smell in no time.

The above suggestion of stripping it down to bare steel is probably best. then wash the metal with every cleaner in the house in rotation, (but don't mix bleach and amonia!) then if the carpet doesn't come clean and fresh replace it too.

and give her the bill...

That'll teach her to make you do "house wive's work"!

(Yes, My wife works in a glorified body shop making prototyp Hondas for a living and I et up at 7 every morning and fix her breakfast..I spill stuff in my own car, I found 90 wt gear oil will mask the smell of just about anything except the dead bodies.)

 

Get a shop vac, a running garden hose, a bucket full of a strong simple green, and a scrubbrush... and get to work...

 

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This sounds like an interesting story, let's hear it.
TZ

 

Take a fresh lump of doggy doo &amp; push it firmly into the heater matrix.....presto no more bad milk smell

On a more serious note i had the same problem &amp; after removing the carpet i hung it up &amp; high pressure steam cleaned it from both sides (very hot too with detergent) then let it dry completely before soaking with Fabreze. Sure helped it but never 100% cured it on a hot day.

 

Maybe baking soda under the carpet?

 

Simple!

1) Fill 5 gal. gas can with gasoline. Place into trunk.

2) Drive car to a Cleveland back alley.

3) Get out of vehicle, pour entire contents of said gas can into interior of said vehicle.

4) Light a match, and flick it into the interior while standing back at least 15 feet.

5) Run away with your keys in hand.

6) Call a cab, &amp; go home.

7) Promptly report car as stolen.

8) Settle insurance claim as payment for all the years they've been ****** you.

9) Buy wife a nice new car, with that new car fresh scent!

Presto!

 

add some more milk,('bout a gallon),and put some cats in there,they'll lick it clean if they don't die from fur balls first.

 

This question was asked on "Click and Clack" a few months ago. They were blunt -- there is no way to remove the smell of milk from a car short of replacing all of the carpet and padding. They were firm about it. they said that no amount of cleaning would remove the milk from the padding. I don't envy you at all. I think they did actually jokingly suggest setting the car on fire.

 

A 1/2 gallon of milk was spilled in the car when we got groceries Sunday. By Monday it was already starting to smell some. We pulled the carpet at the effected area and found the attached padding was completely soaked on the p***enger side. Young buck, here on the Hamb, totally gutted the interior to remove the carpeting while I was at work. It cost around 1500.00 to replace the carpet. Needless to say she is really p-ssed. My fault of co****. An extra bag was put on the back seat because the rear was full. The stupid plastic bag didn't support the contents and fell to the floor in the back. Not knowing there was milk in there we waited unti l we got home to pick it up and then found the lid came open and spilled a 1/2 gallon of chocolate milk that went into everything. I removed all the effected backing material, took it to the car wash and sprayed it down, The metal floor has so many nooks and crannies that milk is pooled in areas that can't be reached. We took a bleach water solution and washed down the metal floor hoping it will kill any bacteria that starts. What a mess. The car is in many pieces laying on the floor. Thanks for the informative answers and funny ones too.Thanks Young buck! Your the man! I intend to use the febreeze idea along with a few others. Those damn plastic grocery bags don't support any amount of contents. I hate those damn things . From now on It'll be paper ones. I will look at this in the future and laugh some day. I think the back alley Cleveland idea is the best solution, Doghouse Petejoe over and out!

 

<font color="red"> Not all that interesting....I have worked grocery for yearsd(read high pay best benifits there is)........I was breaking down a milk load and hit a bump with the pallet...it went over and took out a second pallet....some where around 200 gallons of milk went soutn covering me and flooding the milk cooler ...I was 18 it was 4 am and I was "testing" the nitros levels of several whip cream containers!

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pete you have my sympathy! - a few years ago my inlaws were nice and sent my wife and I back home with some deer meat ground course for chili. There were three packages. One package rolled out of the bag and under the p***enger seat. We were busy unpacking kids and missed it. If you haven't noticed I live in Texas and it's hot. Now thats a BAAAAAAAD SMELL!!!! We didn't have the money to change out the carpet. We suffered for several years....each summer we would plug in an ozonator machine and leave it in the back seat for days... it helped... ok .....lets say it's the only thing that didn't make it smell worse.

 

I would do what the detail guy says, then put a tray of apple slices in the back, and then put some charcoal too. Not the charcoal with the built in lighter fluid, the plain kind, cheapest you can find.

It works on animal piss smell, it might work on milk smell.

 

sounds like you got it fixed.

I had a milkshake spill in the back of one of my cars and soak in over night.

I used an awl to punch several holes in the floor and flooded it with soapy water, scrubbed and rinsed a few times, it got most of it out.

Paul

 

I have kangroo in my car!! well dead roo meat, cant find were its coming from but believe me i can smell it, just washed it head from toe, pulled the back seats out and all!! I HAVE ABOSULETY NO IDEA WHAT to do!! Any ideas?

 

Bad memories
This post is going downhill from here. I can tell already..

 

you need to find a detail shop that has a carpet extracter,it would be well worth the money to have this done!

 

oh yeah and i used to have the same smell in my jeep then i divorced her

 

It could have been worse.

Good friend and roommate went grocery shopping friday. Forgot to unload one gallon of milk and didn't use the car again til monday morning. Unfortunately it was an O/T mustang with T-tops and a cloth interior that had been simmering in july sunshine. Gallon of rotten milk had EXPLODED in the back seat. Unfortunately my buddy was too broke to get a new car, and didn't know what to do. So to prevent the inevitable request to borrow my car, had to personally spearhead the cleaning process

Step one- We removed the seats and scrubbed the whole interior with several cans of aerosol carpet cleaner, a tire brush, the garden hose, and a wet vac. We probably applied and vacuumed out 20 gallons of water. We didn't use it, but if I had to do it again, would put some oxy-clean in the water.

Step 2- Car dried with the windows open for several days.

Now all visual traces of the milk were gone, and the smell reduced by 75%, but still not acceptable for windows-up driving.

Step 3- One small bowl of ammonia placed on the floor. Windows up tight, let it fester in the sun for 2 days. Open doors, run like hell. Took another day with the windows down to remove the ammonia smell.

Rotten milk smell banished forever. Faint ammonia for a week or two, car spent as many hours as possible with the windows down. Smell hadn't returned 2 years later.

Good Luck!

 

Wow, glad that is over. BTW are you trading that Lexus in on the new one?

 

An old used car lot trick used to get our cigaret smell is a large bowl of vinegar placed in the car for a day or so with the windows up. Not sure it is will work with milk, but if you clean it up as good as you can and then try the vinegar thing it may work. Good luck!

 

used coffee grounds are supposed to absorb oder

 

I'd like to know how a Kangaroo got into his car.
They sure dont store them in bottles?

 

The smell of stale beer would mask the milk smell

 

When I was prepping abandoned cars for resale I would wipe the whole interior down with Resolve, sprinkle some coffee grounds on the bad carpet areas and vaccuum up later..at least you're not having to deal with cat piss, sometimes its gasoline and a match.....

 

Go to a pet store and buy "Simple Solution" (best) or "Nature's Miracle" enzyme cleaners, used for pet stains - buy a gallon, about $20. Soak in (a couple of hours), shop vac out after it has had time to work but before it dries. Repeat. Repeat again. The enzymes will help break down the fats and proteins in the rotten milk. It will make the rest of the cleanup go much smoother.

Then go for some of the odor maskers described above. Ozium from Pep Boys works well too.

 

I had an old Ford pickup that was so smelled up from milk that I was about to junk it. A buddy bought a quart and set it on the seat at a gas station. Then, when we went to get in, he kinda jumped up into the truck and blew the milk open when he sat on it. The top popped just as I opened the door on my side. Douched the whole seat...
A few days later I couldn't even walk by it in the driveway.
Another friend suggested I put his ionic air purifier in there and close it up for a day or two.
Worked like a freakin' dream.

Same truck... about a year later.
Me and a different buddy are leaving a bar and he decides he has to puke. Only trouble is... he doesn't bother to tell me.
The first blast creamed the windshield and filled the defrost vent. All subsequent chunk blowing was on the floor and door panel.

I don't have that truck anymore...


JOE