Adblue spillage, how to save interior?

[extraT]

FIL took our Seat Alhambra the other week and tried to be helpful by refilling the adblue. Anyone who has / knows this car will tell you the positioning of the adblue nozzle is completely idiotic. It’s on the inside of the car, in the boot, basically behind the back left breakligh… and he spilt in the interior. It’s now crystallised (pictures below) can I save the interior, or is it permanently ruined? Hopefully it’s not…

[andy43]

If you can get the bits out I'd jetwash them, or just take it to a valeter - they'll have removed stains worse than that. It's just crystallised piss isn't it?

[pherlopolus]

Lots of water and a wet and dry vacuum.

I had a leaky bottle in my rear foot well and this happened, lots of water, good sponging, then vac it. You might need to do this multiple times as you only know if you have got it all once it has dried again.

[journeymanpro]

Some spillage

[Chris32345]

Ideally seats and interior carpet out but that probably means most of the centre console and stuff out of most car's


I'd flood with something like no nonsense degreaser and scrub then vac as much as possible out

[Andy665]

andy43 said:

It's just crystallised piss isn't it?

No

[extraT]

Thanks all, I suppose I was hoping someone would have a magic trick, you know, such as baking soda and vinegar, something tried and tested, but I think I’ll just have to take it to a valet / car cleaning service.

[pherlopolus]

Just water and time. I have a petrol car now, so risk is low. But if it happended again I would take it somewhere.

[Russ_T_Nuts]

I have the same car and agree that the location of the Adblue filler is absolutely stupid. I've just put 15 litres in there and almost managed to get all of it in without spilling a single drop and then at the very last moment some of it managed to blow back out of the filling spout somehow. About an egg cup full, I'd say. I had a towel there just in case but some of it definitely wet the carpet in the boot. Stupid, stupid place to put the filler cap. It's virtually level with the lowest part of the floor under the back seats, you have to put the seats up to get to it, then it's a PITA to get the stuff into it if you've got one of those Adblue bottles that comes with a bendy spout. I've found a way to do it but like I say the last little bit came back out. Shame there isn't some kind of extension tube that screws onto the filler so it's more easily accessible from within the boot with the rear seats down. Oh well.

[Sheepshanks]

You can get AdBlue filler tubes - I had the VW one for wife’s mk1 Tiguan, which also has the filler in the boot floor.

I found getting the tube to seal on the AdBlue container awkward though - it used to drip a little, but the drips were outside the car. It was slow too. I generally just used a flexible funnel. Keep everything very clean and don’t overfill - it can interfere with the ultrasonic level sensor. Tiguan held 12 litres and I just used to drop 5 litres in every now and again - with wife’s use of the car it was only using about a litre a month.

[Smint]

Our adblue pump at work gets clogged with spilled adblue during truck refilling, a kettle of hot water shifts it all when this happens.
So, hot water a quick scrub and vacuum.