ATF spillage
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sparkythecat

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8,057 posts

276 months

Saturday 23rd August 2025
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A burst pipe has leaked ATF onto the drive.
What do need to shift it?
Covers an area about 18ins x 10ins


Panamax

7,732 posts

55 months

Saturday 23rd August 2025
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What I do is scrub with hot soapy water asap before it has too much chance to soak in.

The problem is you then end up with a "clean" patch of drive with a "dirty" blob in the middle. You then just have to sit back and let time/the weather take their course.

Rough101

2,917 posts

96 months

Saturday 23rd August 2025
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The soap is ideally washing powder rather than washing up liquid, and mega hot water

sparkythecat

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8,057 posts

276 months

Sunday 24th August 2025
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Rough101 said:
The soap is ideally washing powder rather than washing up liquid, and mega hot water
Unfortunately we only have those gel capsule things for the washing machine . I’ve tried and failed with fairy liquid

JoshSm

2,821 posts

58 months

Sunday 24th August 2025
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A disolved dishwasher tablet has some fairly potent degreaser in it, assuming you don't just use actual degreaser.

s p a c e m a n

11,511 posts

169 months

Sunday 24th August 2025
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Screwfix do 5 litre bottles of degreaser, I normally scrub a load in and hose it down a couple times then scrub another load in and leave it until the rain washes it away

NCE 61

2,438 posts

302 months

Sunday 24th August 2025
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I used this HG product on my driveway https://hg.eu/uk/tips/how-to-remove-oil-from-drive... worked really well