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I should imagine you might have to strip out the carpet and replace it after scrubbing the metal inside of the trunk. Usually things like baking soda and vinegar can strip out things like spills but I can't say for sure with something like you mention. It might be easier to pull the carpet and clean the metal and replace it later.
I experienced something similar a few years ago. I had a bag of cow manure break open in my trunk and somehow get wet. Talk about stink!
What I did, and what worked, was to shampoo in some Dr. Bronners liquid castile soap, and after several ragsful of warm water, removed that. Then dried it with a hairdryer, and left a sprinkle of baking soda on for a day, which I vacuumed up
The woman who was ringing up the sale told me to make sure the windows of the house were closed & to wash my hands after using the spray b/c it smelled so awful. Lucky me, it somehow leaked in my trunk & it smells like a porta potty that's never been cleaned. I write this as mommy deer & her two fawns are enjoying a late supper on our once beautiul hydrangae & red bud covey tree. I should just pop the trunk open & park my car on our front lawn during the night...
It repels. We live in a very heavily populated deer area & have a family of deer who are just destroying our landscaping this summer. We also have an apple tree in the front yard that they love which I believe is attracting them to the other foliage. Either way, I'm annoyed. Annoyed my flowers are chewed up (the hydrangae were doing so good too) & annoyed my car smells like a week old dirty diaper.
Luckily, I didn't need to drive my children anywhere this week. Not sure how their gag reflexes would hold up.
It's getting better. We are going to fix it somehow this weekend.
If there's a professional auto detail supply store in your area, ask for a "reodorant" product, there's several brand names for this stuff.
We used it for reconditioning cars to remove all kinds of foul odors, tobacco stench, rotten french fries smell in between seats, spilled soft drinks that had mildewed/rotted in carpets, etc.
The stuff doesn't "mask" an odor with a perfume. It is a liquuid chemical product that "absorbs" all odors.
I had a car brought into my shop for reconditioning that was so bad it would make your eyes water just to be near it ... a MB 560SEL that had been parked at a campsite by one of our lakes. The fellow who owned it had unloaded his boat equipment and fishing catch for the day into the car, and went back to carry his car-top'ed rubber ducky boat to the car. Unfortunately, he had a fatal heart attack lifting his boat off the beach. The car sat in the summer heat in the parking lot for several weeks before it was towed away.
We were able to remove all traces of the stench that had permeated the leather upholstery and the interior by removing the seats, washing them with Murphy's Oil soap solution, and then spraying the "reodorant" chemical on all the interior surfaces of the car (including the trunk) full strength. We left the car closed up so the product could absorb the smell, and then aired it out for a couple days more. It worked very well, and you could not tell after a hot day closed up in the sun that the car had ever had a problem. A quick wipe-down on the leather with Lexol gave it that fine "conditioned leather" new car smell ....
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I don't know. What did John Gotti use?
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