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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 02:31 AM
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Chipmunk pissed in my Hawk! Clean or replace?

A chipmunk made a home in my firehawk! It got in through the empty tranny bay. Apparently I didn't have it covered good enough so I had to vacuum out acorns and crap pellets. But worst of all that thing pissed in the trunk! I can smell it!

So basically, I might just rip out all the flooring upholstry and get new. Or should I clean it? I'm thinking the trunk padding I should clean and get new rug where the seats are. So I have these questions:

1. What to clean it with?
2. Where to buy new flooring?

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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 08:33 AM
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try scrubbing out the interior first...i would get a bucket of warm water with some laundry detergent, scrub brush, and a shop vac.to suck up the dirty water between scrubs then scrub the hell out of it (dont be afraid to use a bunch of water) i have done this method 1000s of times when we owned our car dealership...or steam cleaners can work too (just not as effectively in my experience)...either way, after some time scrubing let the car air out for a day (warm sunny days are prefered obviously )

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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 08:49 AM
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Rent a steam cleaner. Pull your seats out, remove the carpet from the car (it's not that hard) and, well, steam clean the **** out of it!
Old Aug 13, 2008 | 09:22 PM
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However, a new interior would bring back that "new car" smell...
Old Aug 14, 2008 | 06:13 AM
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If your interior is in good shape then it just doesn't make sense to replace it. And you'd also need new leather seats to give it that new car smell. Just getting new carpet won't do it.
Old Aug 14, 2008 | 11:54 PM
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I don't have leather seats but I'm hoping this bastard chimpunk just pissed in the trunk only. The interior is in very good shape as well so I can see your point.
Old Aug 15, 2008 | 09:07 AM
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steam clean or go to a shop with an extractor which is like a steam cleaner. have them do the whole car. Pull out the insulation under the carpet. It will reduce some weight and hopefully will help muffle the smell.
Old Aug 15, 2008 | 02:34 PM
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I think you should just replace the entire car. j/k

I hope this leads to a custom license plate, or a theme for the car. Chipmunk **** is a great name for a drag car.
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