Getting spilt coffee smell out of carpet

[julian24110]

My lift share left a coffee flask on the floor in my passenger foot well which fell over and spilt ground coffee all over the carpet.

Annoyingly this is under the seat on the carpet and not on the easily replaceable mat. The car now no longer has that nice new(ish) car smell and has a pungent stale coffee smell about it. I have tried fabreze, 1001, bicarbonate of soda and much vacuuming. No change!

Anyone got any magic tricks for getting nasty smells out of carpets?

 

[BenH]

Pet odour remover is supposed to be good, cleaners that contain enzymes are supposed to break down the bacteria that creates the smell or some science stuff like that. Alternatively I would of said bicarb/cat litter would soak anything up. Could try conventional carpet cleaners as well, might just be a repeated process thing to get rid of the smell

 

[kazand]

Rub your car lifts nose in it the tw@t

 

[BenH]

Something like this http://www.petsathome.com/shop/en/pets/simple-solution-stain-and-odour-remover-750ml is worth a shot. Back when I was in school some of the less hygienic pupils would mask their BO with lynx Africa, also worth a shot

 

[julian24110]

Thanks, I'll try that if the whole carton of bicarb that is currently formenting overnight doesnt work

 

[niggle]

Try Valet Pro enzyme odour remover.

 

[Scott_FR]

Oddly, coffee grounds is usually a suggestion to use to get rid of other bad odours in cars! :-D

I recently got rid of the most horrendous smoke smell from my car, but it has taken months and I had to go nuclear in my efforts! I'm now the owner of (rated good to bad for removing strong smells):
Chlorine Dioxide treatment (eg: Clobberizer or Odor Rescue)
Ozone Generator
Vax carpet cleaning machine + decent.fluid
Bio-Brisk
Meguiars Odour Control

And all that after 2 professional interior valets.

I've spunked £300+ to get rid of the smell.

So the good news is, you shouldn't have any trouble getting a coffee smell out.

 

[matthab]

Its not so much the coffee but the milk probably in it. Did your said passenger not use a thing called the cup holders?

The only other last thing you could try is to remove the seat and use a carpet cleanrer to get deap in the carpet.

Failing that find a local valeter and make it their problem .

 

[JACUPRA280]

You may need to remove the seat to get to the carpet properly. That's what I would do, otherwise anything you do isn't going to be as thorough as it could be.

I recommend two things regarding cleaning:

1. Steam - Blast the carpet with steam, using a microfibre attachment; a handheld steam cleaner works great and most do come with the attachment you need.
2. Zeolite crystals - Or, cat litter. It sounds daft, but it'll absorb the smell and can be hoovered clean out after a few hours.

 

[Jonwm]

Missus spilt a milkshake on the floor in my Audi, I it went under my seat, sprayed loads of autoglym interior shampoo and it was fine, carpet feels a bit rougher still


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[julian24110]

Thanks for the ideas, the spill was Friday and there's no sour milk smell yet so looks like I got away with that. I poured a whole tube if bicarb on the area last night and vacuumed it up this morning. Smells way better now so that seems to work well however you seem to need to put loads on as the slight dusting I did at the weekend did nothing.

I hadn't thought of the autoglym or the pet odour sprays. If the smell is still there at the weekend I will try one of them.

In the meantime I will introduce my passengers to the wonders of cup holders!

 

[martin j.]

New rule------ no eating or drinking in the car.

 

[BenH]

My rule is just no passengers