- Yeah, like just stick your nose in there real quick.
- That's nasty.
(laughs)
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- Hey guys, happy Friday.
Today's video I need to add some context to
and I wanted to just tell you kind of what the backstory was
because it's kind of silly and I realized after editing it
that I just jump right into kind of what it's about.
So let me give you some backstory here,
but I don't want to do it here.
I want to do it somewhere else.
Come with me.
So here's the deal.
It was Saturday July 14th,
it's my son's third birthday party
and we have a lot of people coming over
and so we went to one of our favorite spots in San Diego
called Pancho Villa.
It's this Mexican grocery store
and they make amazing tacos.
If you're ever here you absolutely have to go check it out.
It's not very fancy place, it's very authentic.
So if you've never been to a place like that,
I highly recommend it.
Now at Pancho Villa we had ordered,
we had pre-ordered six pounds of chicken,
six pounds of beef, six pounds of rice,
six pounds of beans,
and the beans are not refried beans or mashed up.
They're pinto beans, kind of whole
and so that was basically the food
and then we had you know guacamole that we made
and salsas and all this kind of things.
Very Mexican fiesta kind of,
which is typically what we do.
So we go get it me and my buddy Johnny, my neighbor,
and we go and we load it in our Model 3 or my Model 3
and the challenge or the thing that we messed up was
we had all the stuff lined up, stacked up,
so you had the beef, the chicken, and all that
and they had done this for us.
These are pretty heavy, they're six pounds each
and they're kind of flimsy.
And she put the beans kind of in the middle
and then she put the chicken on top of it
so as I'm walking out, the thing I have is
just leaking everywhere because all the juice from the beans
is getting all over the place.
And so when we get there, when we get to the car,
we have to kind of take that out
and and repack it and put something else
like actually kind of seal that thing up as best we can,
but the container the the basket I had
still had juice all over it.
So it's hot out, we're late, people are arriving,
I need to get there, and so what I do is
I just kind of throw it in the back
in the bottom trunk part, which is underneath.
You'll see it in the video here
and I go, we get back home.
When I got out I saw that there was some juice in there,
it was maybe some of the meat,
but I think it was the beans mostly
and it was literally 30 people at the house.
Everyone's waiting for food,
I don't have time to be messing with this right now.
I need to get in there and get people fed
and so that's what I do, right?
Next day I go out and the car just smells
like something died in it, it's terrible.
I don't know what the hell is going on.
I look back there and that's when
I discover some of the juice.
I think it was the beans
and some of the juice had leaked in there
and so I tried a couple things.
I couldn't figure out what to do
and so I called Wes,
my buddy who owns Elite Finished Detailing
here in San Diego with a detailing emergency.
What do I do to get this smell out?
Because the the thing there isn't very,
it's not like a fabric.
It's this cardboard type material with like a cloth,
kind of like these chairs actually.
Hold on.
See that chair?
This chair is actually perfect.
This is not why I chose this room,
but you can see that it's kind of
this cardboard but like fabric material.
So that's where, that's the context.
That's what happened
and the reason I wanted to publish this video is
because I'm probably not gonna be the only one,
probably not the only one that has spilled something
in the back of their Model 3 that then leaves an odor
that you want to get rid of
and you're not sure how to do it.
So it's educational, it's informative, it's kind of funny
and I hope this is useful for you guys.
Let me know in the comments down below,
if you've had this happen to you hit me up on Twitter,
send me a photo, all that kind of thing.
All right, happy Friday.
I hope you guys enjoy it.
See you guys back here on Monday.
Peace!
- Ah man.
- I tried to spray some stuff in there
like just to wipe it down.
This isn't like a--
- How saturated did you get it?
- Not that much.
- Okay, good.
- Just barely.
- Because the problem with this kind of material is
that when you get it,
like if someone were to use a hot water extractor,
you spray too much, it's gonna push that liquid further.
- Yeah.
- And then it's like you're basically replacing it.
By the way this this may be a piece
that we might be replacing.
- Yeah, that's kind of what I thought.
- So what we're gonna do is we're gonna run,
we're gonna use a steam extractor
because steam is gonna push a lot less liquid.
But at least it's kind of loosen things up
and get some moisture there
and give us something to extract.
So we're gonna do that and spray some enzymes
and hope that we help the situation out
otherwise we're replacing that piece for you.
Yeah, that's nasty.
- Check that out that's...
don't spill beans in your,
in the bottom of your trunk here
because it's disgusting.
- [Wes] Yeah.
(laughing)
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- The miracle workers have returned.
It smells good, it smells better, right?
- Yeah, so the main thing, what you're smelling right now is
the kind of the after effect of Shine Supply Cool Breeze,
which is their odor eliminator.
So it's gonna be a little intense at first,
but it'll break down after a little while.
So it does smell a little overwhelming at first.
- Yeah, but that's I mean Jesus, I was going to puke.
- Yeah, it's gonna really, yeah.
It smelled kind of Mexican foodie in there.
(laughs)
- Well that's what happens.
I mean, you know we live in San Diego, right?
We've got to do that.
Okay so...
we don't have to replace the piece.
- No.
- Okay.
Did we have to take this out to do it?
- No.
- Just right in there?
- Yeah so most of what was causing that smell
was just like whatever was caked up inside thE fabric there.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- And it's a really thin like cardboardy kind of fabric
so the nice thing is like we just gave a light scrub
with some Shine Supply Leather Cleaner
to kind of just emulsify it a little bit
and then use steam and extracted the...
like you should, I wish I recorded it
because when I picked up the extractor
like brown liquid was coming out of it.
So whatever the you know, aftermath of--
- So yeah, so okay.
So could I do this at home
or could I have done this at home?
- It could have been done at home
minus the extraction kind of thing.
You could kind of do like a scrub
and then vacuum kind of thing.
- Shop vac or something?
- Yeah, it could definitely be done that way.
We use the steam extraction so the steam actually helps,
the heat helps break up the matter that's in there
and pull it out.
- But extracting it whether it's with a shop vac
or an extractor is a key element
because cleaning it can push things deeper in.
- Yeah, if I just sat there and scrubbed with a towel,
I could push it down, down, down in.
- Right, yeah I tried to that a little bit
just because I figured hey, I'll just give light spritz
but that was definitely.
- What you could do do like if you're trying to like,
if you don't have a detailer back at home
that you know like off hand.
First thing you do is just like take a microfiber towel
and just kind of lightly like...
- Just pat it?
- Dab it, yeah.
- And then kind of get some of the bulk of it up
and then lay a microfiber towel down
and let it wick that liquid.
So it's gonna pull the liquid up into the towel.
That at least we'll start pulling it up
until the person does enough research to
find the detailer that can extract it correctly.
- Okay, so then if that doesn't work then the next step is
scrub it or put some soap on it?
Like dish soap or something?
Something you said to it emulsify,
you put the leather something on it.
- Yeah, so we used a product called
Shine Supply Leather Cleaner,
which is kind of, it's a light kind of all-purpose cleaner
designed to work on interiors specifically
so it's not a really like heavy duty kind of cleaner.
- It's pH neutral, it's actually they just changed the name.
- Very safe.
- They change the name of it recently too.
It's Shine Supply Leather and Interior Cleaner.
- Got cha.
So is there an equivalent at home.
Not dish soap or something like that?
- It's hard to not, you want to stick
with automotive related products.
And it's not a very expensive product too.
It's right on our website actually so it be--
- So you can order from you guys, order it online,
maybe go to Autozone or whatever's nearby--
- You can absolutely find so sort of interior cleaner
off the shelf, do the research beforehand.
Make sure it's a pH balanced kind of product
and not something that can potentially burn the fibers.
- Right, right, and like you said
this isn't like a piece of I mean,
there's like some fabric on here--
- Yeah, because if I completely if I soak that down
to the point where like you got really, really wet.
That could then spread to more
and cause probably more like a water kind of mildew smell
rather than...
- Yeah.
- What I want to add about the surfactants too,
about a cleaner is a lot of them like you said,
a lot of them can burn the fibers,
but a lot of them also will leave a soapy residue,
which are will attract dirt and other things to it.
And that's that's why we were so selective
about that product is that it's gentle enough
to not harm anything and it's not gonna leave behind gross,
a gross mess.
- So find some interior cleaner, get this one if you want
or whatever your options are.
Put that on there to kind of get it out of there
and shop vac it and then spray something.
Then you put some treatment on there?
- Yeah, just put a spray to odor eliminator in there
and just lightly worked it into the fibers.
We can offer that and you know in store here
or online or basically over-the-counter kind of deal.
Again, it's more of a professional line product
that delivers professionals results.
- That's what I was trying to get,
like I think when I first called you,
I'm like okay is there something I can do
like baking soda, white wine vinegar,
you know I'm thinking all the traditional,
I don't know if these are real or not.
- White vinegar can fix everything.
- Right, whatever.
- Baking soda I mean, I have come across cars
where people have spilled things into their car
and at least they were smart if not try
to scrub the wrong thing in
and they just covered it in baking soda,
which will absorb and then you can vacuum that out.
It does help.
- So there is okay.
- Yeah, that does help.
- Yeah, so depending on how bad it is and all that,
you kind of do that and then at some point,
obviously so if you guys are in San Diego
this is where you're coming obviously, we all know that.
But then yeah I'm trying to think like broader
like okay if I'm doing this on my own
or if I'm like you know in a place
where I don't have a good detailer or something like that.
- Well and I've supported a lot of people
around the country too.
I get phone calls, especially the Tesla community.
They'll call randomly like hey
and I'm happy to give free advice over the phone,
that's not a big deal.
- So I'm gonna put Wes's number in the bottom.
(laughs)
- Because every situation is different.
I think that's why it's hard to
give a cookie cutter answer right now.
- Yeah, I know, no doubt.
- They might spill something different.
Could be fish oil next time.
- Like this wasn't sticky.
Right, this wasn't like soda or something.
- Or milk.
- It dried to the point where it like,
anything else I feel like it probably would have
stayed a little bit like wet
or it would have caused like more.
It didn't smell as bad as I expected it to
because I feel like beans are the kind of thing
like if you let them dry they actually get like chalky.
You know what I mean?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- So that was like where my thought process was
to kind of break it down first before I try and pull it out
because if we just went after it with steam,
we may not be able to pull as much out of it
as we needed to.
So step one is if you're gonna transport
a giant tray of beans, put some plastic down in there.
Then you then don't put anything on top of them
that makes 'em spill, that's number two.
And if and when all of those fails,
you know we have options for you.
- When user error still occurs.
(laughs)
- I thought we were fine too.
I even put him on top, I like rearranged,
and I was like cool and then I got home
it's like my son's three year old birthday party.
I don't have time to be figuring this out.
It was until the next day I came out,
I was like oh my god something died.
Like something got in there.
- You're lucky it wasn't milk
'cause milk is nasty.
If someone spills milking they need to like
immediately be finding, even if all they do is
go to a gas station start vacuuming it up,
like get it out.
- Milk, protein shake, coffee, all three of those
cause some pretty disgusting smells.
- Now I've spilled coffee in my in my car before
and it just smelled like coffee for a month
and I was okay with that.
(laughs)
But I drink black coffee.
- Yeah, if you have some creamer in there,
you definitely call someone.
- You're like hey, maybe I'm on to something here.
- I legitimately was gonna go,
I'm out of beans right now,
but I was gonna go buy some coffee beans and just like--
- Just put them in the trunk.
- Just like put them in a bowl in there
and just like see what happens.
Well hey, thank you guys again.
You guys really do the thing.
Yeah, if you're in San Diego
Elite Finish is where you need to come
for this stuff, guaranteed.
If not I'll put links to the things
that they recommend, those specific products,
and then maybe I'll just the general guidance that we have.
- Absolutely.
- But no matter where you're at
you should probably find a detailer.
Kind of a good thing, right?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, so cool guys.
We'll check us out in the next one.
Hopefully it's more fun,
the last of this kind of stuff in the future.
- We're here to help however.
(laughs)
- Cool, cool.