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Car interior odors, smoke, milk, pet, gas etc

Many odors, especially those originating from a liquid source, may be difficult to remove from your vehicle’s upholstery, carpet and liner material. Liquid spills nearly always penetrate beneath the fabric into the foam inside of cushions, and into structural materials below. Your IICRC certified technician may be able to inject odor treatments beneath the fabric, but will not be able to tell if the treatment has reached all of the source.
Vapor odors such as cigarette and dog dander can travel throughout the vehicle contaminating the HVAC system, liner materials, foam cushions and other unreachable areas. Some service providers offer a fogging system to treat vapor molecules in hard to reach areas.
There may be risks of permanent staining from materials beneath the fabric or carpet that can bleed, stain or discolor the fabric after treatment.
Replacing deeply contaminated seat foam and carpet cushion, along with a thorough cleaning and deodorizing of the complete interior, fabric and carpet may be necessary for heavy contamination.
 
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I’ve found that mixing a superior deo, and a strong peroxide works well...(15-20%)...
Vacuum with a handheld brush roll vacuum (4” brush roll hooked up to a powerful shop vac), then apply HOT prespray through a pump up, extract with a 4” PMF internal jet, lots of dry passes, THEN apply peroxide/ deo combo heavy, rinse light, force dry.
 

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Car interior odors, smoke, milk, pet, gas etc
Many odors, especially those originating from a liquid source, may be difficult to remove from your vehicle’s upholstery, carpet and liner material. Liquid spills nearly always penetrate beneath the fabric into the foam inside of cushions, and into structural materials below. Your IICRC certified technician may be able to inject odor treatments beneath the fabric, but will not be able to tell if the treatment has reached all of the source.
Vapor odors such as cigarette and dog dander can travel throughout the vehicle contaminating the HVAC system, liner materials, foam cushions and other unreachable areas. Some service providers offer a fogging system to treat vapor molecules in hard to reach areas.
There may be risks of permanent staining from materials beneath the fabric or carpet that can bleed, stain or discolor the fabric after treatment.
Replacing deeply contaminated seat foam and carpet cushion, along with a thorough cleaning and deodorizing of the complete interior, fabric and carpet may be necessary for heavy contamination.
 
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Car interior odors, smoke, milk, pet, gas etc
Many odors, especially those originating from a liquid source, may be difficult to remove from your vehicle’s upholstery, carpet and liner material. Liquid spills nearly always penetrate beneath the fabric into the foam inside of cushions, and into structural materials below. Your IICRC certified technician may be able to inject odor treatments beneath the fabric, but will not be able to tell if the treatment has reached all of the source.
Vapor odors such as cigarette and dog dander can travel throughout the vehicle contaminating the HVAC system, liner materials, foam cushions and other unreachable areas. Some service providers offer a fogging system to treat vapor molecules in hard to reach areas.
There may be risks of permanent staining from materials beneath the fabric or carpet that can bleed, stain or discolor the fabric after treatment.
Replacing deeply contaminated seat foam and carpet cushion, along with a thorough cleaning and deodorizing of the complete interior, fabric and carpet may be necessary for heavy contamination.
ozone works well on cars for odors you can't reach otherwise.
 

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Never had it happen. Needs a lot of ozone exposure for anything negative to happen and it's only real rubber that is affected usually. I've done flooded vehicles, spilled milk, etc with no problem.
I've had no visible concerns myself, but heard of a guy melting a dash and breakdown of window seals
 
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ozone works well on cars for odors you can't reach otherwise.
Murray KY was for decades a regional center for buying, reconditioning and selling fleets of used cars. There were several hundred shops turning them out.

They would REMOVE the seats and carpets, in all of ten minutes, to clean them. The finished product was an "almost new" vehicle.

When the Feds came busting the odometer fraud, 50% of the business quickly evaporated.
 

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