How can i get rid of skunk smell

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Hello, how are you? Customer came to me to detail inside of his car hes a vet and he saw a skunk on the side of the road and he stop and it was hurt but had life so he put it in his car and boom it sprayed so question is

1.how can i get rid of smell?
2.how do i make the smell come back?

thanks in advance
 
1. Sell the car
2. Buy the car back.

That's gonna be one nasty odor to get rid of.
 
Wait, wait. Hold the phone. The dude picked up and put the skunk INSIDE of his car?????????????
 
Likely story... Were his eyes bloodshot? Did he he seem paranoid at all?

Err, I mean, bummer... Grandma would suggest tomato juice bath, but I don't know if you'll wanna do that to a car interior. Of course, you don't wanna put a skunk in one either...
 
I think this may be time for a gigantic google search. Just getting smell off of the undercarriage is hard, but man, the interior...not a clue.

Let us know how it all works out.

Bill
 
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r&sons said:
1.how can i get rid of smell?

^^^For complete and total remediation...^^^

The entire interior fabrics (seats, headliner, carpeting, etc.) may just have to be removed...
Some possibly replaced. (This is, at the very least, that must be done...IMHO.)

I'd suggest to this Customer to take the vehicle to a professional janitorial-service-company.
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r&sons said:
2.how do i make the smell come back?
weekendwarrior said:
Question why would you want the smell to come back After you got rid of it?

^^^Good question...I'd also like to know the answer to this^^^ :D
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BTW:

1.) :welcome:...To AGO!!

2.)
r&sons said:
Customer...hes a vet...
skunk...was hurt but had life so he put it in his car :eek:

^^^How's the skunk doing?^^^
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:)

Bob
 
I'd steam it about 3 times then hit it with an ozone generator for a couple days. But I'm still not sure that would do the trick...
 
I'd like to meet the veterinarian.

Anyone that cares enough about animals to put a live, hurt skunk in their car is just the guy I want taking care of mine.

And the only way to permanently de-stink the car is to have it stolen and burned.
 
As a teen, my friends and i stopped and picked up a roadkill skunk and threw it in my truck. We wrapped it in a sheet first. We then hauled it 20 miles and dumped it in another friends yard, as a joke.

The smell was unbearable for about 2 months i reckon. It did dissipate after a while with the little cleaning i did to the car back then. After four months or so, ya hardly noticed it. lol. Always picked up my dates with the windows down after that though. Good luck!
 
OMG!

I am just trying to imagine the looks on the Vet's face after that tooter went to spraying! LOL That would have been priceless....
 
oldmodman said:
I'd like to meet the veterinarian.

Anyone that cares enough about animals to put a live, hurt skunk in their car is just the guy I want taking care of mine.

And the only way to permanently de-stink the car is to have it stolen and burned.
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When I first read this yesterday and saw the word, "vet," I was thinking veteran not veterinarian, this really makes sense as to why he helped out.

I'd surely want him as my vet!

Bill
 
The best advice I can give you, other than:

rmagnus said:
1. Sell the car
2. Buy the car back.
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is to pass on that job. Trust me. Two details come to mind:

1. I detailed a Ford Explorer that had a 48 Quart Ice Chest full of shrimp/ice/water spill in it.

2. I detailed an H2 that had an ice chest full of deer meat that sat in Mississippi August heat for 3 days. He forgot about it, and the cooler leaked.


The explorer was a pain, but after pulling everything out, pressure washing the carpet and extracting several times, it came out. As for the hummer, 3 years later the guy parked it near the beach when Katrina came.
 
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