Cerbera back seats

[Mrs BlueCerbera]

My darling oldest son (aged 3) has just been immensely sick in the back of the car (and I was driving ever so nicely). And to make matters worse, it all seems to have gathered down the gap where the seat belt thingy sits. I know its in there because when I put my fingers down the gap and can feel a could inch worth of semi-digested hot dog vomit (nice!). I've fingered out what I can (euch) but can't work out how to get the rest out other than using a straw and sucking. I don't fancy that for some reason.

Anybody got any ideas - can you get under the seats/down the side at all, even slightly so I can clean it up ?

Any advice gratefully received - husband back from Amsterdam on Wednesday and he's going to be really unimpressed when he takes the car out if I leave it festering in there !



Edited to add that I've just managed to move the leather panel at the side that slots under the rubber door seal thingy bit and can get my hand in and feel it all swilling around but the seat belt plug-in thing, but can't get hold of it all. Also seems that the bottom bit of leather on the seat comes away from the carpet, but I don't want to force it - is this a way in ?



>>> Edited by Mrs BlueCerbera on Sunday 12th September 17:40

[gbbird]

I do feel for you Penny, and i would'nt like to be you when Mr Blue Cerbera gets home and notices a strange whiff coming from the back of the Cerbera

Seriously, afraid i can't help with the seats. I am sure they come out somehow - i remember reading on here how they are bolted through the floor, but that may have been the front ones........ Good luck

[FourWheelDrift]

Just a suggestion, might not work but........

Do you have any sawdust or anything else that can soak up..... Bit like cement dust on spilt oil.

Then allow it to do as much as possible then hoover it up.

Then lots of air freshners, garden herbs, dried smelly pot pourii or a dead cat to get rid of the bad sicky smell.

[Mrs BlueCerbera]

FourWheelDrift said:

Just a suggestion, might not work but........ Do you have any sawdust or anything else that can soak up..... Bit like cement dust on spilt oil. Then allow it to do as much as possible then hoover it up. Then lots of air freshners, garden herbs, dried smelly pot pourii or a dead cat to get rid of the bad sicky smell.

Not a bad idea, yes I do have some sawdust (courtesy of pet bunny), that may well do the job.

Thanks again !

>> Edited by Mrs BlueCerbera on Sunday 12th September 19:27

[SXS]

eiiiwwwww..... but trust me, its not as bad as it usually is... for instance...

my mates dog had a massive sludge diarroeah session in his old mans jag.... he did his best to clean it all out and not mention it to his old man... since then his old man has always been complaining to whoevers in the passenger seats 'who blew off again?'

but even today, the slight whiff of shit is still present!!!!

[prestige]

hi i own and run a car valeting company u will never lose this smell unless u apply a chemical which will break down the food content ,which i know is vomit but it is still a food content,the chemical u need is called bio lots of chemical companys like autosmart,image,will supply u with this,u cant buy this in halfords.
we use this chemical our selfs to breake down vomit,milk spillages,cigar smells,if u dont use this chemical u will never lose this smell even with all the air freshner in the world,please be care full not to spray it on your leather seats

[alex200mph]

You can get down behind the seats.

The square leather plate with the curved top which sits in the middle of the seat (would support the lower back when sitting) is velcroed in position. You can gently remove this. The lower part of the back seat can then be pulled from the back (also velcroed at the back) upwards and forwards. You can't take it out completely as its glued in at the front. I would suspect that the vomit is down there.

have fun!

Cheers
Alex

[Mrs BlueCerbera]

Thanks for all the advice chaps. Strange thing is that it doesn't seem to smell at all thankfully. I am going to attack it with a vengeance this afternoon. I've even made myself a nice long thin VAX attachment which I hope is going to help

[trooper1212]

Mrs BlueCerbera said:

Thanks for all the advice chaps. Strange thing is that it doesn't seem to smell at all thankfully.

I think you'll find that's "parent nose syndrome"

[Mrs BlueCerbera]

trooper1212 said:

Mrs BlueCerbera said: Thanks for all the advice chaps. Strange thing is that it doesn't seem to smell at all thankfully. I think you'll find that's "parent nose syndrome"

Oh god, please, no, that's something I dread developing !!

Well the good news is that it seems like overnight I've developed some extra joints in my wrists and fingers. By slipping the side panel bit out ever so slightly further than I dared yesterday I managed to get my hand in and fish it all out, and give it a good clean as well. Not entirely sure what it was that I've fished out, and I'm sure I haven't fed him tomatoes recently, but there you go. Seems that its all gone now anyway.

Amazing what you can achieve when you really put your mind to it

[Julian64]

You will never lose that smell. I once sold a car after having it professionally valeted three times for a bottle of milk that was spilt on the rear seats.

[Mrs BlueCerbera]

Well, it may be that I've become resistant to it, but I really think I've been lucky as I can't smell it at all. Perhaps he had particularly effective (or ineffective) guts that day and was lacking in whatever it is that normally makes it so potent !!