Help: Spilled chicken grease on MBtex seats
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Help: Spilled chicken grease on MBtex seats
So here's the story:
I let someone drive my car to pick up food for the office and she put two containers of roasted chicken on BOTH of my back seats. The containers ended up spilling chicken grease on the back half of both of the rear mbtex seats getting into the little holes of the seats. I would guess a half cup of grease spilled.
I tried cleaning it by taking a high powered vacuum and sucking all the grease out of the seats (mbtex has holes so grease soaked into the seat). Then I took a bucket filled with Palmolive dish wash soap and water and drenched a rag and wiped the seats down to try to get the grease smell out. Then I sprayed the crap out of the seats with frebreeze, but the grease smell is still there.
I'm afraid that i'm not able to get all the grease that soaked into the mbtex. Anyone have suggestions on cleaning and deodorizing mbtex seats? Thanks.
I let someone drive my car to pick up food for the office and she put two containers of roasted chicken on BOTH of my back seats. The containers ended up spilling chicken grease on the back half of both of the rear mbtex seats getting into the little holes of the seats. I would guess a half cup of grease spilled.
I tried cleaning it by taking a high powered vacuum and sucking all the grease out of the seats (mbtex has holes so grease soaked into the seat). Then I took a bucket filled with Palmolive dish wash soap and water and drenched a rag and wiped the seats down to try to get the grease smell out. Then I sprayed the crap out of the seats with frebreeze, but the grease smell is still there.
I'm afraid that i'm not able to get all the grease that soaked into the mbtex. Anyone have suggestions on cleaning and deodorizing mbtex seats? Thanks.
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. Any tips to suck it out? Would a those carpet steam cleaners help or would it damage mbtex? The car stinks and I can't get it smell out of my head.
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You'd be better off removing the covers and then cleaning the foam, otherwise you'll suction the grease through the covers (not a good idea)
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I hope that's the last time that you let a dimwit take your car. Some people are f'ing pigs- hope you've had success in getting the car cleaned up.
