Milk

The charcoal bag thread reminded me of a fiasco I had and how I resolved it. Thought I'd throw this out here in case someone else runs into a similar situation: (long read)

Backstory: Went grocery shopping and loaded up the back seat of my Ram Megacab with a months worth of food etc. Got home and unloaded everything....so I thought.

Fast forward a week or so, I was traveling for work, drove my truck to the airport and parked it in a Valet parking place, I flew in late on a Friday night, get to the parking thing and wait for my truck, it's cold and a bit rainy, the guy pulls my truck up and I notice the windows are cracked a few inches, the driver has the drivers window down (That's odd I thought). He jumps out and gives me a weird look and basically runs away, I jump in and am immediately hit with the most foul smell ever, it's like a throat punch, I jump back out and open the doors looking for whatever it is that could be causing it, under the back seat, laying on it's side I find a half gallon bottle of milk that had burst open and a bunch of cottage cheese was in it and all over the carpet. I drove an hour home with all windows wide open..

I was faced with 2 options, replace the entire carpet, or try and clean it. The MegaCab is not an easy interior to pull apart, it's freaking massive in there, not to mention nobody offered a decent kit so the Dealer was the only way to go. $$$$$$$. so I did a bunch of searching and came up with a game plan that actually worked REALLY REALLY well.

1. I pulled out the back seats and threshold panels
2. Used wet-dry vac to pull any liquid out of the carpet. Gagging profusely the entire operation and every time I had to empty it.
3. Using a bucket of water, I soaked the carpet and followed up with the vac, doing this a number of times.
4. I lifted the carpet as much as I could and got under it as well.
5. after 3 or 4 rinses, I added oxy clean, did that a couple times and rinsed again.
6. I got apple cider vinegar and sprayed it all over the carpet, soaking it. Let it sit for a couple of hours, rinse and repeat 2 more times.

This actually got out 90% of the odor etc, but after a day of drying I could still smell it.

7. After everything was bone dry, I got a big can of crappy folgers coffee and spread 1/4 inch deep over the area. Let that sit like that for almost a week. (no backseat passengers for a while)

8. Vacuum that up and I was 99% there, it really helped but I could every once in a while get a faint whiff.

9. Order up a charcoal odor absorbing bag and threw it in the back under the seat. After a week or so, all smell was gone and it NEVER returned.

 

@SouthBoundSteve @War Machine

 

Hell of a story

 

No need to cry over spoiled milk I say

 

Stomach actually turned a bit reading that. That is one of the worst smells ever.

 

Agreed. Doing that makes one quite sour.

 

One pun was funny. Don't try to milk this.

 

I happen to like cottage cheese......

 

Agreed. If left to go on too long, it can really become cheesy.

 

This thread really stinks...........

 

Well here is a treat!

 

Stop churning out the jokes.

 

Going to milk it all I can......

 

If anyone deserves to be banned......ugh..........

 

Yea, glad she wasn't in a thong......

 

Are you though? Really?

 

Imagine it be like 2 huge chunks of Cauliflower, EEEEWWWW!

 

Don’t butter him up.

 

This thread has become a stomach churning experience.

 

Good catch. Now we know.....

 

Mmmmm......milk.

 

Best thing is to not buy milk.......

 

We always knew. Now we just have proof.

 

Photoshop.

 

So the Valet didn't stick around for at tip huh?

 

My wife left a burrito under my truck seat back in the nineties. Good thing my ac never worked anyway since I had to leave the windows down for a while.

 

We need to start a collection of these.

 

By "burrito", do you "log"?