Long story short, street flooded high enough to get the floor wet, got all the excess water sucked out and shop vacced the floors as much as possible but it's still pretty musty in there.
I was just going to get a jug of Damp Rid and call it a day.
Long story short, street flooded high enough to get the floor wet, got all the excess water sucked out and shop vacced the floors as much as possible but it's still pretty musty in there.
I was just going to get a jug of Damp Rid and call it a day.
Get some desiccant bags or moisture traps (is that what damp rid is?) . After you've done that, if it's still musty, a bunch of bicarb spread all over the carpet for a few days then vacuum it up.
If after that, it still persists, consider hiring an ozone generator and running that inside the car for a day
I once bought a car that had backed into a pond and had very wet on the inside. I put a dehumidifier inside with an extension cord, set it on "high" and closed the door for the evening. That did the trick for me.
Air flow. Doors open and a decent fan blowing across it. Or at least leave the windows open on sunny days.
Throwing a 5 pound bag of rice on the floor overnight has helped. I usually have Windows down, top up, in the baking sun. A fan would really help that out blowing through the Windows.
Bright sun open windows usually works well enough.
That said, when the jute underlayment it wet, it can hold that water seemingly for forever. In which case I remove the seats, lift the carpet and jute out, toss them upside down on the lawn again on a warm sunny day and bake them dry.
I second the dehumidifier route, as long as you can get access to a plug and outlet. I was amazed at how dry it got my old 944 after about a week of heavy rains, a broken sunroof seal, and a couple drains that went right inside the cabin...
If you have access to a dehumidifier, I third that idea.
The keys are going to be moving dry air, and the warmer it is the more effective it will be.
The longer it takes to dry the more funk can grow in it. You may want to consider pulling the carpet if its not too big of a pain.
I've left a large box fan on low for a couple days to dry cars a couple times.
Once a spitfire project that didn't have a top and another my Cherokee that needed to be driven deep down a ramp to launch the sailboat.
Much better with windows open of course.
Use same method for drying carpet after a leak or after child throw up cleaning.
Good luck
Leave the AC on, Recirc, for a few hours if you can't go the dehumidifier route.
If you cant get a dehumidifier, I have had good luck with a fan and a big ass bucket of damp rid. Leave the damp rid in it for awhile, even after if seems dry.
I use the Damp Rid type thing in my Truck because the roof leaks. I leave one in there. I get the kind at wally world that has a semipermeable membrane. When it's full, I remove a corner of the membrane, dump the water and refill it with the stuff from Lowes, duct tape it back together and go.
In the RAV4, before I found the source of the water leak and fixed it (it's complicated), I had several instances of flooded driver's floorboard. Like, park it outside, it rains, get in to drive home and there's 2 gallons of water on the floor. Either the PO or the used car dealer addressed the issue by popping out the plug under the carpet and adding two or three floor mats. Anyway, after a flooding, I would shop vac up as much as I could, pull the carpet up, shop vac some more, then leave the doors open and put a box fan on it for a couple days.
Dump some alcohol in it. Alcohol/water mix will evaporate much quicker than straight water.
you can put a bag of charcoal in with a slice down the top. It absorbs the water and smell very well. You can then use it to make dinner for you in-laws.
Ok thanks for the responses, but I don't really have time to pull the carpet (plus the vehicle isn't mine). I'm not really keen about putting my ancient Kenmore dehumidifier in there, because my luck would be that it would set on fire.
So I'm going to try the Damp Rid jug for RVs and see how that works out.
cdowd wrote: you can put a bag of charcoal in with a slice down the top. It absorbs the water and smell very well. You can then use it to make dinner for you in-laws.
Is that how you cook the carp fish and chips for the in laws?
SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: Ok thanks for the responses, but I don't really have time to pull the carpet (plus the vehicle isn't mine). I'm not really keen about putting my ancient Kenmore dehumidifier in there, because my luck would be that it would set on fire. So I'm going to try the Damp Rid jug for RVs and see how that works out.
Focus? 
Kartoffelbrei wrote:SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: Ok thanks for the responses, but I don't really have time to pull the carpet (plus the vehicle isn't mine). I'm not really keen about putting my ancient Kenmore dehumidifier in there, because my luck would be that it would set on fire. So I'm going to try the Damp Rid jug for RVs and see how that works out.Focus?
No, the MS3
Oh duh. Makes sense. In that case, a few matches oughta do the trick! 
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