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Jessemll

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Hi all. I have been looking over this site for awhile now and have been experimenting on my two cars, seeing what I can do as far as making them look there best. I have them looking pretty good thanks to all the great information found here. Now have a problem that I need some advice on. I decided to use a small Brissell steam cleaner to clean the carpet in my truck. The directions called for a mixer of oxy boost, spot&strain remover, and hot water. After I was finished I noticed these light green/yellow patches all over. I think the oxy boost discolored my carpet (pictures attached) maybe were some stains were before or something. Has anyone had this happen? Any advice? I was thinking of getting some carpet dye and trying that or maybe cleaning the spots with something else. Anything would be great short of replacing the carpet. It's a 08 f150
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That stain looks permanent. You could redye that area, but you would need to mask off a good portion of the interior to keep overspray at bay
 
Do you know if there anything spilled into the carpets?

I would try folex(you can get a HD) spray agitate with a brush and warm water the use plain hot water in your extractor to try lifting the stain.
 
That's what I thought. It almost looks like bleach spots.
 
I never spilled anything but I am the second owner so maybe something was spilled before I got the truck.
 
That folex is available at lowes in my town so I may pick up some of that and give it a try before dye. Could it be rust under the carpet being pulled up and re-acting with the oxy. Anyone see something like this before.
 
Jessemll said:
That folex is available at lowes in my town so I may pick up some of that and give it a try before dye. Could it be rust under the carpet being pulled up and re-acting with the oxy. Anyone see something like this before.
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Never hurts to have folex around :props:
 
Should have probably used folex to being with. Live and learn.
 
Looks exactly like when the wife took chili in a pot to work and it spilled everywhere. It took forever to liquify what had dried up under the rug and suck it all out. It took a while using hot water and a Bissell pro heat but it did clean up with no surface staining. And yes it could also be rust. You may try removing the kick panel and entrance plastic to take a look see under the rug and padding. When the wife does anymore of the food on wheels routines now the pot is in a plastic trash bag in case it spills.

Dave
 
davidc said:
Looks exactly like when the wife took chili in a pot to work and it spilled everywhere. It took forever to liquify what had dried up under the rug and suck it all out. It took a while using hot water and a Bissell pro heat but it did clean up with no surface staining. And yes it could also be rust. You may try removing the kick panel and entrance plastic to take a look see under the rug and padding. When the wife does anymore of the food on wheels routines now the pot is in a plastic trash bag in case it spills.

Dave
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All over America interiors are being ruined in the name of feeding the needy
 
Good idea davidc. I will take a look under there tomorrow morning. maybe I have bigger problems then use stained carpet.
 
Haha.
Ok so I couldn't wait until tomorrow. I got out the flash light and pulled off the trim and looked under the carpet. No rust, no stain, nothing. The padding looks new and so does the metal flooring. Just discolored carpet on top.
 
Ford actually has what feels like a rubber membrane between the carpet and the padding. That's a nice feature. I had a jeep once were the floor boards rusted out and stained the carpet from underneath. That sucked but I still drove that jeep for years, loved that car.
 
If it were me I would try going back over it with the same cleaner as before and then after that go back over them with just pure water to rinse the cleaning agent out throughly. I don't see how that carpet cleaner just ruined your carpets if used at the right dilution. There has to be another factor here. You may want to look into getting a spitting kit as well to see if that would help. Once you dye the carpets you will have to keep on doing it when places wear away. I'd make sure there was no way possible the stains will come out bf I go that route.
 
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