HELP! messy spill

[Brett Dikeman]

At 8:21 PM -0800 2/19/02, adam morley wrote:
>HELP!  juice spill in trunk!  bottle smashed open against rear seat,
>sloshed down rear seat, all over rear trunk, and under the rear
>seat.  i've got the bench part out, mopped that up, and cleaned in
>there.

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>  other ideas?

If you can afford it, and the stuff got everywhere, take it to a
professional shop promptly.  Consider it an excuse to get the whole
car's upholstery done up, if you've got a cloth interior.  Follow it
up with a little TLC some weekend on the dash etc(dust everything,
vinylex, clean up all the windows, etc), and the car will look, smell
and feel like a million bucks inside...and hey, that's where you
spend most of the time, right? :-)

If the pro side it too expensive, then resolve carpet cleaner and a
shop vac will work wonders(the only thing special about carpet
cleaning machines is that they've got that neat little squirter :)

Don't bother with the foamy stuff, just regular spray will do nicely.

As for the odd torx bit, if you don't have the right bit(don't use an
allen wrench!), MCM electronics sells a variety of bit kits,
including one I have that has something like 100 bits and cost about
$20.  The handle is crap(ratchet function broke immediately), but the
bits haven't let me down yet.  I'll probably look for a good handle
to go with it and throw out the one that came with the set.

hope this helps somewhat

Brett
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