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Coolant soaked padding - replace or clean? 200 1993

posted by  woodshavings on  Sun Mar 19 13:55 CST 2023
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Over the weekend, I discovered that my driver's side carpet is sopping wet with coolant. I traced it to the heater valve next to the accelerator pedal. I have a path to resolving that.

But I've never dealt with a wet 240 foot/floor well. I expect I'll need to pull the carpet, padding below it, and clean it. Normally with just water soaked padding and carpet I've just dried it in the sun, but I don't think that will work here. The coolant needs to be extracted. Do I need to replace the rubber-backed padding, or can it be cleaned? The carpet I expect I'll clean by renting a hand-held carpet cleaner at the local Ace HW.

Any suggestions on cleaning up the carpet and padding are much appreciated.

Thanks!






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