Help! Water in my car...
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Help! Water in my car...
like an idiot i left the sunroof open in my car during the night and i have about 2 hours worth of rain in my car - its not too bad - the angle the car was parked at caused the rain to miss the dashboad and Nav System and all the electronics work but there is a lot of water pooled onto the leather seats. I toweled everything dry but the seats are still wet - what can i do to prevent the leather from cracking or drying out. Any reccomendations on airing the car out (again, its mostly the seats) to prevent any mold from forming - thanks guys!
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I'd call your MB dealer and ask....
OR
I'd probably just get as many fans as you can and blast the interior...all day and/or night long !!
when its dry...try ANY KIND of leather conditioner...(I tried COACH brand...works fine)
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I'd probably just get as many fans as you can and blast the interior...all day and/or night long !!
when its dry...try ANY KIND of leather conditioner...(I tried COACH brand...works fine)
Last edited by bagwell; Dec 9, 2002 at 01:38 PM.
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My advice: go to Sears and buy a room dehumidifier and run it for a day inside the car. My friend with a convertible left his top open during a torrential rain. His car is fine after using the dehumidifier. He applied the same thing to a flooded car with very good results.
Good Luck!
Good Luck!
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Good luck, I hope it dries out OK. One time probably won't hurt too much. I don't know if you left it open purposely, but after years of owning cars with sunroofs and lying awake at night wondering if I closed it, I follow a rule: I never walk away from the car without visually checking the roof as I lock up, even though I "know" I pressed the button -- If I don't remember looking at the roof, I walk back.
But, it reminds me of something I saw years ago while parked outside an apartment building waiting for a friend. A young woman in a fur coat was in her new E-Class, parking it just so. I think it was brand new because she was kind of fiddling around with some buttons in the car. Oh, it had snowed, and there was some on the roof of her car. All of a sudden, I see snow dumping inside her car-- she had accidentally opened the sunroof part way. Of course she quickly closed it and had to clear everything out. She got out and looked somewhat sheepish ...
But, it reminds me of something I saw years ago while parked outside an apartment building waiting for a friend. A young woman in a fur coat was in her new E-Class, parking it just so. I think it was brand new because she was kind of fiddling around with some buttons in the car. Oh, it had snowed, and there was some on the roof of her car. All of a sudden, I see snow dumping inside her car-- she had accidentally opened the sunroof part way. Of course she quickly closed it and had to clear everything out. She got out and looked somewhat sheepish ...
Last edited by MarkL; Dec 9, 2002 at 07:29 PM.
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I did that in my SUV....
Heh I did that (bangs head on wall), left the roof on my SUV open over a whole weekend during a crazy rainstorm. The interior was soaked, but everything worked. the roof was open from fri night to Sun morn, lucky the sun came out and dried it out. Too bad the leather was ruined. hope you fair better. I did get leather cleaner and cream and did that about 3 times to get is back to some resemblence of soft. Parents were thrilled.
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Get a shopvac and vacum the water out first then use the degumidifier trick. Wipe down everything first though. Then polish the leather when all is dry. I did this to my wifes, minus the leather and dehumidifier, but it was summer so the sun dried it quickly.
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hair drier? maybe.
just to make you feel better...last week when it rained in LA. I was out with my parents to have some late lunch and saw a E55 AMG's moon roof half open. The owner must have thought that he had close the moon roof before he pulled the key out.
i have left my moon roof open a couple of times...luckly it was sunny.
just to make you feel better...last week when it rained in LA. I was out with my parents to have some late lunch and saw a E55 AMG's moon roof half open. The owner must have thought that he had close the moon roof before he pulled the key out.
i have left my moon roof open a couple of times...luckly it was sunny.
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