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Old 09-23-2007, 10:33 PM   #1
Help!! Stinky Car!
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Anyone have any tricks to killing a smell in your car/van?

Here's my story:

Two months ago I purchased a 4 or 5 watermelons for a get together we were having with friends (I was in charge of fruit). When I unloaded the trunk - I missed one (it was hiding behind my stroller) and didn't realize it until I couldn't hardly stand the smell in my van anymore. I just wrote it off to having a 15 month old who drops her sippy cups in the car once and a while and assumed it was rotten milk. I even searched the middle of my van one day and found an old sippy cup hidden under the driver's side car and so I stopped looking, I blamed it on the sippy!! Then, when the smell didn't go away after a few days I searched again...at this point the watermelon has been rotting in the back of my van for a week!!!

Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks!
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Old 09-24-2007, 04:55 AM   #2
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Take the watermelon out now?

Try to do a carpet shampoo or some sort of deep cleaning of the area Mr. Watermelon was, then get some Febreeze and spray the daylights out of the whole van - all seats, THE "CEILING" of the van, the floors, any where there is fabric. Leave the windows cracked, and let it "dry" overnight. (Do all this right after you are done driving it for the day, so you don't sit on wet Febreezy seats.)

I didn't have a stinky watermelon, but when I quit smoking, I did the Febreeze thing. Cigarette smoke is horrible to get out of things, and that beat it very well. I used the regular Febreeze, and it just smelled...normal. No heavy scents or anything. You want to do the whole vehicle because I'd think by now, the smell would be in the fabric and foam, and even if you take the culprit out, you'd still have days of the smell coming back out of the fabric and foam. Yucky

Spray so every thing is damp, but not soaked.

I've heard of sitting a cup of vinegar or such in the car, but I've not tried it.
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