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Default de-stinking a car interior

"aemeijers" wrote in message
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I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I need
to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and did an eyeball
inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate enough to pull
the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining quarter-bottle of
Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual with these things, smell
is worst after van has been sitting closed for several hours. Smell
arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up, or
windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect part of
carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent from the
dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I flipped over)


You didn't happen to have a leaking baby bottle in it, did you? That can be
ghastly.