help help...most HORRIBLE thing ever happend!!!
02-14-04, 05:52 PM
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help help...most HORRIBLE thing ever happend!!!
ok i left my car for 2 weeks at my parents house... it has been raining there... when i left i noticed a slight amount of moisture inside of the car on the windows and such but didnt think much of it. i came back to the most horrifying thing i have ever seen in a car!!!!! the entire interior is COVERED IN MOLD...i want to throw up! mold everywhere in 2 weeks!!! the history of this car is that it had an engine fire before i bought it and when i got it the interior had fire-extinguisher dust on it... i used a wet rag to wipe it down... maybe that stuff promotes mold i dont know. anyway, ive had the car for 6 months and not a problem or bad smell. now i leaev it for 2 weeks and this happens????? i couldnt believe my eyes! please help if you have any suggestions at all or just look at the pics and vomit in disgust.
what could have caused this....how do i get rid of it w/out ruining the interior.... and how can i prevent it from ever happening again????? i have never in my life seen something like this happen!!!!! im gonna puke, heath
what could have caused this....how do i get rid of it w/out ruining the interior.... and how can i prevent it from ever happening again????? i have never in my life seen something like this happen!!!!! im gonna puke, heath
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02-14-04, 06:01 PM
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holy **** dude....thats horrible 
My best guess is to get a quality interior cleaner and just wipe it all off. i have no idea how it actually GREW in your car though.....damn.
My best guess is to get a quality interior cleaner and just wipe it all off. i have no idea how it actually GREW in your car though.....damn.
02-14-04, 06:10 PM
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Did you ever take into consideration that maybe your parents may have left the windows down and realized they're down after a nice rain and put them up? That's the only thing I can think of, ewww. Sorry man, that's got to suck
02-14-04, 06:22 PM
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nope... car doesnt run, and the battery is dead so the windows couldnt have been down. the only thing i changed was the sunroof to glass and i just noticed thta the seal has some holes in it... i dont see how this alone could have caused it because it had a car cover on it
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Start with a good cleaner. I don't know about the carpets, those will be the hardest thing to get clean.
That's awful, man. There MUST have been a significant amount of moisture allowed in the car.....
That's awful, man. There MUST have been a significant amount of moisture allowed in the car.....
02-14-04, 07:03 PM
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I think it was the wet rag.
Your are going to have to rip the whole interior out to get rid of all of the mold. Take every piece out and clean it with a mild bleach solution. Make sure that everything is dry before you put it back in the car.
Man I feel for you, that looks totally disgusting.
Your are going to have to rip the whole interior out to get rid of all of the mold. Take every piece out and clean it with a mild bleach solution. Make sure that everything is dry before you put it back in the car.
Man I feel for you, that looks totally disgusting.
02-14-04, 07:11 PM
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heath this isnt so bad
Now this will force you to take apart the entire interior and clean every piece of dust and mold off. It will be cleaner than ever because of this so maybe its a good thing. You gotta take every little piece out and clean one by one perfect and put it back nicely. Id say its at least 25 hours of work. Spread it out...took me 10 hours to clean my interior and the car was immaculate already. I just wanted to condition the seats so I took them out and I cleaned the carpets real real well and removed the doorpanels to get all the dust from inside of them. Took me a full week of scrubin.
BTW I say its the tiny holes in your seal of the moonroof that caused it
Now this will force you to take apart the entire interior and clean every piece of dust and mold off. It will be cleaner than ever because of this so maybe its a good thing. You gotta take every little piece out and clean one by one perfect and put it back nicely. Id say its at least 25 hours of work. Spread it out...took me 10 hours to clean my interior and the car was immaculate already. I just wanted to condition the seats so I took them out and I cleaned the carpets real real well and removed the doorpanels to get all the dust from inside of them. Took me a full week of scrubin.
BTW I say its the tiny holes in your seal of the moonroof that caused it
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02-14-04, 07:21 PM
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Originally posted by RotorMotor
i dont see how this alone could have caused it because it had a car cover on it
i dont see how this alone could have caused it because it had a car cover on it
After thoroughly cleaning all the interior pieces as others have suggested, you should get a Dri-Z-Air moisture trap to put in the car, and empty it regularly. That will pull the moisture out of the air in the car and help keep this from happening again.
http://www.drytheair.com/xcart/store/customer/home.php
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It was DEFINITELY the car cover.
But it's not THAT bad. This can be cleaned off, RotorMotor. I'd start by pulling the seats out.
Mold is fairly harmless to your skin, but try not to sit in the car and continuously breathe it.
But it's not THAT bad. This can be cleaned off, RotorMotor. I'd start by pulling the seats out.
Mold is fairly harmless to your skin, but try not to sit in the car and continuously breathe it.
02-14-04, 07:31 PM
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I am an attorney that handles cases involving mold in homes. Any hard surfaces you can clean with a 10% bleach/water solution. The bleach will kill the mold and it won't grow back on the hard surfaces. Unfortunately, anything that's cloth is another matter. When carpet in homes has mold on it, you have to get rid of the carpet -- cleaning is not going to correct the problem totally, it may just grow back. However, clothing can sometimes be dry-cleaned to get rid of the mold (sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't). If you can do some type of cleaning on the carpet/cloth items, it might be salvagable.
Another concern I would have with the carpet and any soft materials is that the padding underneath would also have mold on it. If you don't get this taken care of also, the mold will just come back again.
Be sure to have high powered fan/blower hooked up to completely dry out the car.
Another concern I would have with the carpet and any soft materials is that the padding underneath would also have mold on it. If you don't get this taken care of also, the mold will just come back again.
Be sure to have high powered fan/blower hooked up to completely dry out the car.
02-14-04, 07:56 PM
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Must agree with Jimlab and others. The wet wipe down, the car cover, the closed windows, maybe extinguisher dust, the glass sunroof, and maybe even the location of the car relative to the sun, the wind, and moisture around the car, all contributed to turning your car into a gigantic rotary powered PETRI DISH. Science Project from Hell, dude! Also, you don't know the prior mold history of the car. That's why TireSmokin7's suggestions are good, as is the Dri-Z-Air moisture trap.
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Originally posted by TireSmokin7
I am an attorney that handles cases involving mold in homes. Any hard surfaces you can clean with a 10% bleach/water solution. The bleach will kill the mold and it won't grow back on the hard surfaces. Unfortunately, anything that's cloth is another matter. When carpet in homes has mold on it, you have to get rid of the carpet -- cleaning is not going to correct the problem totally, it may just grow back. However, clothing can sometimes be dry-cleaned to get rid of the mold (sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't). If you can do some type of cleaning on the carpet/cloth items, it might be salvagable.
Another concern I would have with the carpet and any soft materials is that the padding underneath would also have mold on it. If you don't get this taken care of also, the mold will just come back again.
Be sure to have high powered fan/blower hooked up to completely dry out the car.
I am an attorney that handles cases involving mold in homes. Any hard surfaces you can clean with a 10% bleach/water solution. The bleach will kill the mold and it won't grow back on the hard surfaces. Unfortunately, anything that's cloth is another matter. When carpet in homes has mold on it, you have to get rid of the carpet -- cleaning is not going to correct the problem totally, it may just grow back. However, clothing can sometimes be dry-cleaned to get rid of the mold (sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't). If you can do some type of cleaning on the carpet/cloth items, it might be salvagable.
Another concern I would have with the carpet and any soft materials is that the padding underneath would also have mold on it. If you don't get this taken care of also, the mold will just come back again.
Be sure to have high powered fan/blower hooked up to completely dry out the car.
BTW: I'm not an Attorney, but work for one. We hit Ford in late 02 for 225 million.
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02-14-04, 09:47 PM
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Originally posted by SanJoRX7
time to burn the car
time to burn the car
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Originally posted by busy13b
wow - probably not what you were expecting to come home to, huh?
Any chance you can turn this in to your insurance company under your comp as an "act of God?"
wow - probably not what you were expecting to come home to, huh?
Any chance you can turn this in to your insurance company under your comp as an "act of God?"
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hard top got served as well .... anyone experienced w/ fiberglass repair? cause im not... im trying to use some fiberglass resin bondo but it doesnt seem to be doing hte trick
.... anyone experienced w/ fiberglass repair? cause im not... im trying to use some fiberglass resin bondo but it doesnt seem to be doing hte trickLast edited by RotorMotor; 02-14-04 at 10:00 PM.
02-14-04, 10:03 PM
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BTW: I'm not an Attorney, but work for one. We hit Ford in late 02 for 225 million.
BTW: I'm not an Attorney, but work for one. We hit Ford in late 02 for 225 million.