PB Blaster incident

Throw an angry skunk in there.  

In the vain of ATF being the best hair conditioner known to man, PB Blaster is really where Axe body spray came from.

Sorry, bud.

I bought a portable carpet shampoo thing (made by Eureka, I think) after my 2 year old puked up what must have been six gallons of chocolate milk all over the carpet ... which is white (of course). Worked pretty well at getting the putrid stink out. Just takes some time. 

iceracer said:

Don't aerosol cans come with a cap ?    Of course everyone uses them.

Try as it may, the PB Blaster cap does berk-all to stay on.

Ive never really noticed the smell of blaster, and ive used it quite a bit. I love the smell of wd40. I would wear it as cologne if i thought my wife wouldnt leave me.

I would think most of the components of PB blaster are pretty volatile and will evaporate pretty readily.  After you have cleaned the carpet, try activated charcoal to absorb the vapors as it evaporates.  I got a couple of bags off of Amazon pretty cheaply.  

Enjoy your new master.

Dawn and or a product called “oil eater”. Will get that out no problem.  I got half a transmissions worth of gear oil out of the back carpet on one of my explorer with oil eater. PB blaster should not be a problem. 

If the baking soda, vinegar, etc. doesn't do the trick, they make a powder that removes pet odor from carpet.  It does a great job of absorbing stuff out of the carpet fiber.  I'd start with the cheaper stuff first like baking soda, but the pet odor powder may help finish it off.  At least PB Blaster smell goes away faster than, say, the smell of cat urine.

I am sorry but I had to laugh at this one. Nothing seems to linger like PB Blaster. I remember a similar accidentally discharge in the back of my neon. 

NP it was being stripped for ITA class racing. After three cleaning effort s the smell was still there.......After I stopped racing and left the car in storage for about 20 months... The smell was still there. I will always remember it because my friend went with me to the storage unit and he is silent for a while then says, did you use some PB Blaster recently, I go "nope that is still from that can you left in the back seat 5 years ago........ remember we just threw away our clothes after trying to clean the car out. Not worth trying to wash it out." 

We had to laugh. 

Try your best at cleaning it out. We got it to where it wasn't so bad but it was still in the metal seams and sound deadner I guess. 

PBBlaster is ridiculous. 

Depends on the lengths you're willing to go to but I've removed the seats and carpet on an older car before and scrubbed them on the driveway with dish and/or laundry soap. Not sure how it'll work on PB though.

oil eater on amazon

Because of our dogs, I purchased a Rug Doctor with the upholstery tool.  I have cleaned some pretty nasty car problems using that tool.

I mix 5 gal very hot water, 2 cups of Super Clean (or Purple Power), with a few ounces of Febreze (you can get it in a pump bottle) in the mix.

Soak the area and several inches out from where you think the spill is - it will have wicked out some - and extract.  Will likely have to do this many, many times.  Also, might be a good idea to check if your carpet is color safe, but I have never found any in a car that wasn't.

My grandson's Jett was parked while he was at Army basic.  Found it had a plugged up sunroof, a couple of inches of water on the floor, and a nice layer of mold on everything inside.  Stunk.  Cleaned the entire interior with this solution and a couple of caps of Lysol Laundry Sanitizer.  You can't tell anything happened.  Of course, YMMV...

gearheadmb said:

Ive never really noticed the smell of blaster, and ive used it quite a bit. I love the smell of wd40. I would wear it as cologne if i thought my wife wouldnt leave me.

You rang?

Man, that is the worst smell. I had a small tool box in my Scion TC, one day I was driving down the road and noticed a very pungent smell. I open the tool box and there was an entire can of PB Blaster that had unloaded into the tool box. I figured there was no saving the random mix of tools in there or the hopes of my tool box ever smelling normal again. So it got binned. Good luck my friend. 

Going by the smell, I could swear PB Blaster is just Raid in different packaging.

Using PB quite a bit myself, it seems it evaporates fairly quickly.

I sprayed the hood hinges on the ZJ with blaster to loosen them up. Turns out the hvac draws right over the hinges. I don't mind the smell of PBB but it was pretty pungent for a while. Dumping a whole bottle inside would be a different world.

You guys think that PB Blaster smells bad, you should try using this stuff. 

The AC Delco stuff is leagues worse.

I don't think you need to go so far as replacing the carpet. A good carpet cleaner with upholstery kit, then ozone machine. Should take care of just about any smell. Even PB blaster. 

DocV said:

 After you have cleaned the carpet, try activated charcoal to absorb the vapors as it evaporates.  I got a couple of bags off of Amazon pretty cheaply.  

Ah...good idea.  It matches the color of the carpet, too.  

Luckily, when this stuff went weaponized a lot of it apparently went into a Hertz portfolio.  That left about 2 oz of it that was caught by my all-weather mats.  I still don't know how much got into the actual carpet.

This is good for the old 330i, which is prone to bouts of inactivity.  I'll let you know what the half-life of PBB in carpet is.

Can I point out that you guys are slipping?

2 pages in to a thread with a title like that and not one mention of a hootus.

Disgraceful.

Grizz said:

Can I point out that you guys are slipping?

2 pages in to a thread with a title like that and not one mention of a hootus.

Disgraceful.

It stings a little at first, until the warming sensation takes over.  Basically the same thing it does to your mucus membranes in aerosol form.

We're missing lots of standard answers:

Shotgun.

Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

Miata.

20 valve. (OK, that one has dropped off the standard answer list, but it and "3SGTE" are still in my standard answer list.)

Otherwise, I think that carpet is going to have to come out.  It's carpet plus the under carpet stuff, remember, and I bet the Manny, Moe and Jack Magic Juice soaked into the under carpet stuff.  Take it out, clean it really really well with the above methods, let it sit out in the sun for a few weeks, I bet it would be OK.

New carpet isn't that expensive from JC Whitney.

I consider PB Blaster to be a Race Car Smell.

WildScotsRacingCampbellCougarSeed said:

I consider PB Blaster to be a Rust Car Smell.

Fixed