Clean The Winter Salt Stain On Your Car's Carpet - All Natural Way
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Mark shows you a quick and easy way to git rid of the ugly salt stains on your car's carpet. You need to do it as soon as possible to prevent permanent damage to your carpet. He shows you a clear step by step method that only takes a few minutes - All you need is a shop vac, spray bottle and some hot water - all natural method
I am from Quebec , lots of salt here. To avoid this, I use newspapers. When they are wet, throw away and replace. Never saw a salt stain on my carpets. Good video though .
Good tip Rob - but you're showing your age. Cheers!
I use bath towel
@@petite2075 LoL, avoues que t'avais pas pensé à ça avant lui
Oh boy! Thanks mister Mark. I just did what you said. Much better than vinaigre. At the beginning, I thought it was not working. But then, after just a few more seconds, the salt disolved! I live in Quebec Canada. We use a lot of salt on the road here. I'm doing 30 000 KM with my car every year with always a bounch of people in and out the car. So there is a lot of calcium on my carpet. But... not anymore... Thanks Mark. Sorry for my spelling. I'M french and didn' t have time to check the grammar... But I wanted to take the time so say thanks...
Great might want to do it a couple of times to be sure
@@carquestions thanks for the advice Mark
I'm from Quebec too, can't wait to try it! ☺️ Thank you Mark for the video!
Most effective and easiest method I’ve tried so far. Thank you.
Anytime Mack - Cheers!
Ça marche ,fallait y penser comment ce sel est il arriver la ..... solution saline évaporation=dépot donc eau chaude =vac ça fait la job merci beaucoup !
Appreciate anyone putting vids out. I’ve been cleaning cars for over 5 years and this is a tutorial for the tiniest salt stain but will not work on crusty salt stains that span the entirety of the foot well
Good to know S2Z - Cheers
So you are just using hot water??? No vinegar or soap....that is impressive. I live in Toronto and winter was wicked this year. I have a stain but way more worse...but your method is great. No need for vinegar water which just makes the car smell terrible for days.
Nope - just hot water - boil some up in the kettle and away you go - let me know how it works out for you
Wow, thanks, i live up in Maine so we get a lot of salt on the roads. , i have been looking for a way to remove it from my truck for a while now. This worked amazing. Thanks.
Glad it helped Ox6 - Cheers from Canada!
I’m from NYC, so snow is no joke here either. I will definitely give this a try. Thanks before hand 👊🏻👍🏻😎
Good luck Logan - get the water nice and hot - Cheers from Canada!
@@carquestions Thanks kind Sir; first thing tomorrow (day off). I’ll keep you post it how it came along.
Cheers from NYC 🗽🍻
PS: heard 50/50 hot water/white vinegar do an amazing job as well.
Thanks for the video. This method was much more effective than the vinegar method for me..
Hot water breaks it down for sure
Thank you for saying the stain was there for so long I don’t feel so bad now lol hi from Minnesota :) 👋🏾👋🏾 thanks for the video
Anytime Kirin - cheers!
Neat, I went snow plowing this year and got some salt stains on my work bag, hopefully this technique serves me well.
Hope so - Cheers from Canada!
Thank you I will try this i tried scraping or chipping it off lol
Boil the water and be careful Denise - good luck and cheers from Canada!
My old carpets were full of salt & sun-faded, my instant fix was a spray can of flat black paint. I scrapped off most of salt with dull knife, vacuumed & lightly sprayed. Carpets look new again as does foot rest pedal.
Love that you - did it when I was a kid to an old Lincoln
@@carquestions So what is best way to do sun-faded fabric -dye on a cloth? -Thanks
my god.. don't come near my Audi.
Wait till it dries and the salt reappears
put more hot water, some time the salt goes under the carpet so you need to clean the back to !
use a damp towel after and wipes the carpey to absorb remaining salt and wont wick after it gets dry
What do you do with the damaged part ? At this point do you use salt remover? Steamer ? I'm having trouble with clients to remove salt stain on damaged carpet because they leave their salt without cleaning for years.
Hope you can help! :)
You can try steaming it - once removed if fibres are missing I have touched up the area with spray paint -
I very much like the idea of extracting as much of the water/salt liquid as possible. I've seen other videos where a vinegar/water solution is used. Aside from the odor, does the vinegar have any positive effect with the salt? Why is it used?
RF - vinegar is a well known popular cleaner for all types of situations but chemically I have no idea - sorry - cheers from Canada!
I would spare vinegar and water mix (50/50) spray and 10mins later use a hand held steam cleaner. You wouldn't need to scrub and much. Suck-up the water with a Shopvac
And good advice that is - Cheers!
I use a dilution of one part vinegar and two parts water. Spray, brush and vacuum. The vinegar breaks down the salt quicker than just water.
Good advice TE - Cheers from Canada!
Thank you sir, my carpet looks mint again!!
I wonder if you can help me as I am at a loss. My trucks ( A 2005 Silverado) battery ending up going dead because I left the door open. Well I take it out and charge it then proceed to install it only to have the truck act like it wants to start with the ignition off ??!! I hear the clinkin of relay's etc. What would cause this ? Its like the ignition switch is bad but it started fine the day before. I was beginning to have to have a no start condition which is some what common with GM trucks in where it would take several turns of the key to get it to fire up. It has happened 3 times to me thus far. I am thinking that the cause ?
Hard to tell with the limited info - but I'd guess there is something wrong with your battery - try one brand new fully charged and let me know what happens -
Houston we have a winner! 🇳🇴
thanks
but the salt in my car is from last winter. yours looks fresh. someone told me water baking soda and vinegar or steam cleaner
That's good advice if the stain is very old - thanks
I bought a used car with salt stains and have tried numerous times to get it out with no luck. used carpet cleaner and the water/vinegar mix along with a drill brush and shop vac and the stain looks like I didn't even touch it. any tips?!?!?!?!?!
Thanks for sharing TLM - carpet is destroyed likely - so just spray paint it
Any chance there's a method that doesn't require a wet/dry vacuum?
Mega - you could remove the carpet and pressure wash it if you don't mind the extra work - Cheers from Canada!
Ok. But what if you don’t have a micro- vacuum to get the hot water out after scrubbing the salt. What’s the next method?
Rinse with more water and hang out to dry - Cheers from Canada!
Thanks for the video. I will try that
Cheers from Canada!
This works really good, thank u.
Anytime - thank you -Cheers from Canada!
Better than vinegar. Use the hottest water you can .
thanks for the comment and info - cheers
You have any tips for cleaning upholstery from car seats?
Always depends on the stain - if it is water soluble like coffee then water can be used - solvent based like paint need another solvent cleaner etc etc.
This is a very misleading and inaccurate tutorial. Road salt differs from household table salt in a myriad of ways, specifically in its chemical compound. Road salt is designed to lower the freezing temperatures of water at a more drastic rate and at a lower temperate than standard salt. Road salt in most parts of the country, including Michigan, contains a mixture of calcium chloride and magnesium chloride, which, when treated with standard hot water, will simply reappear in the same spots on your carpet upon drying. This gentleman, although well-intentioned, is clearly uneducated in chemical decomposition. The hot water does not "expand the materials" as he says, because it does not bond and expand to embedded and dried road salt in carpet. In order to permanently remove road salt stains from cars the proper way, follow these steps. Step 1: using the wet-dry vac, first vacuum the dried salt stains before prepping them with any solutions. Be sure to beat out the accumulated salt as best as possible. Step 2: fill a bottle with 50% warm (NEVER HOT) water and distilled white vinegar. Step 3: spray the salt stains with the mixture, and let sit for 2-3 minutes. The white vinegar mix is acidic, which turns soluable salts to insoluble salts, which can be washed away, being sure to scrub the carpet with brush and rag to pick up the salts off the solution. Step 4: use the wet-dry vac to vacuum up all the liquid from the stains, as this is essential in removing the vinegar smell before it sets in. Step 5: using an approved carpet cleaning solution, spray solution on carpet and then vacuum again, as this will remove what is left of the vinegar stain. Let the car sit and dry before use. This will help to get all the salt out of your car’s interior.
Suggest smnthecloser hit the books - guess he needs a lesson in car design - never put an acid solution into a carpet directly above electrical wiring as found commonly on most cars, you'd just be asking for a lot of trouble due to accelerated corrosion of some very import wiring. Secondly - wikipedia - road salt "sometimes contains other chlorides - also most use a salt brine solution - that would be water mixed with salt I'd guess - so ya it will mix with water. here is the link to wp (sodium chloride) road salt - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_chloride#Road_salt
carquestions suggest carquestions goes to college because the guy has no idea what he’s talking about. This statement is not only inaccurate, but dead wrong. And instead of taking out your internalized disappointment at your own failures in life out on strangers because you didn’t accomplish anything of value in life (based on the car you drive it looks like your life sucks) you should learn about chemical compositions because the tips you’re giving out are dead wrong.
@@snmthecloser All credibility evaporated due to unnecessary insults.
snmtheloser seems you have an anger issue - try a snickers - btw - university of Guelph and university of Queen's grad as well as two trade licences - car and truck - national certification. If you think a 2001 Corvette (one of my cars) sucks then I'd say you're a russian troll - no american would say that
It's nice of Dave Grohl to take a few minutes out of his day to show us how to do this :)
Ben - Who is Dave Grohl?
Haha
What if you’re mobile? How would you heat the water up in the road
Wait till you're off the road - our buy a Coleman stove like we do in Canada
I just bought a truck with ugly salt stains. Did this method with the hot water, a brush and lots of elbow grease...and it got rid of all the salt. It took me 5-6 tries but it worked.
Glad it helped Anthony - Cheers from Canada!
Wow. Great video
Thanks Jukimal - Cheers from Canada!
Carpet. The worst thing to have in a vehicle. It collects everything..
loved my jeep with rubber floors back when
carpet in a car or truck has never made sense to me.
I agree - had rubber in my jeep for years
It's there because it's cheap :(
@@pbakai182 Cheaper than a vinyl/rubber floor mat?
should you heat your water in the microwave
Anyway you like Sandy - Cheers from Canada!
Thank you so much for the vedio
I dont have a nail brush.. is there something else I can use?
So simple ...thanks
oui ça marche ,pis c est simple
Thanks!
Thanks Mitalayeka - hope it helped - Cheers from Canada!
Thanks for your help
No problem Joshi - thanks and Cheers from Canada!
My salt stain is like... hard... I have a feeling it's looong gone.
I have some hard salt buildups on my carpet. Im making progress using a steam cleaner with a pointed tip , so the steam can be targeted to a small area. Than its vinegar and water, salt eraser , that kinda stuff. However it's not a quick job.
Introdinamics__nf Road salt is hard to dissolve with water alone. Try a mixture with white vinegar. 1:1 - 2:1 water to vinegar mix. The mild acid of the vinegar does a good job dissolving the salt.
This worked great! No salt stains appeared later!
Great to hear Dayvid - cheers from Canada!
Thanks
Anytime Savann - Cheers!
Soooo much water. Will the next video be how to get rid of the mold you just created?
suck it up with a wet vac then sunshine and open windows should get rid of it -
just get a tea kettle and boil the water as hot as you can, simple
Good tip
Thanks ;))
No problem GL - Cheers from Canada!
Hot water won’t always work by itself a 50/50 of water and vinegar does the job
Good tip Shuman - Cheers from Canada!
Impressive!
That footwell looks so narrow
thx man
Anytime Xu
Yea... ‘salt stains’ well I guess it taste salty
I do basically the same thing. I just use my carpet cleaner upholstry attachment.
yay now i can get paid for roux
Now my car reeks of vinegar
thats why you use a very light dilution of vinegar and should go over it with a shampoo then rinse the carpet out with just water
Diluted vinegar and a brush.
Good tip NM - Cheers from Canada!
FYI,
This doesn't happen with Weather Tech mats. I haven't had to clean the carpet in my truck since I got them.
Ya I know - thank for the weather tech info
Hot Water 50/50 Vinegar
Also good advice - Cheers!
I have like a mountain of a salt stain in my suv
This worked great! Thank you
Anytime Mckenzie - glad it worked out for you - cheers!
Thanks