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help!!I'm serious, my stinkima smells like a zoo inside after a storm

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Old Jul 23, 2001 | 06:13 PM
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Today when I came back from lunch it was nice and hot outside (almost 40c hottest day this summer) so I tilt the usnroof and opened 1cm of all windows, then after a while it started raining like crazy for 10mins, when I went out (1hr later)everythign was like flooded, water everywhere in the parking lot, then I walked into my car and found that the front passanger seat is really wet and half the rear seat, and it smells like a zoo!, also most of the windows was fogged up, I have nissan factory leather, it smells really really really bad, I think its the soaked leather seats, can I get rid of that smell fast?? lsat time it happened like a yr ago it took a couple weeks, the car just sat in the garage because no one in the family would drive it last year.
Old Jul 23, 2001 | 06:32 PM
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seems like you could wipe down the seats with some kind of leather cleaner/protectant (i would use something cheap like Armorall b/c your might need to use alot of it) or some mild soap and water might even be better to use first since you really just want to get rid of the mildew. I don't know if it rained hard or sat long enough to soak through, but if it did that sucks b/c you can't do anything about that accept wait it out. i would definetely clean all of the carpet with carpet cleaner w/OdorX or something like that, lol.
Old Jul 23, 2001 | 06:35 PM
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I got rubber floor mats, so they were ok, I'll try leather cleaner and I hope it'll work, the front passanger seat was soaked, there was like 5mm of water floating on the leather, so it probably got in adn the backseat was just wet, no layers of water, thanks
Old Jul 23, 2001 | 06:45 PM
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Yep leather smells like a wet dog when it gets wet. Best thing you can do is dry it out and air it out. I would also try to use a cleaner and conditioner, the water tends to leave the leather hard when it dries.
Old Jul 23, 2001 | 11:06 PM
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They got Fabreeze in Canada?? believe it or not, that **** works!
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