Wife asking - best way to get fresh engine oil off my hoody?
Wife asking - best way to get fresh engine oil off my hoody?
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TiminYorkshire

Original Poster:

597 posts

241 months

So my wife is asking, "What's best way to get fresh engine oil off my hoody?"

hungry_hog

2,727 posts

210 months

TiminYorkshire said:
So my wife is asking, "What's best way to get fresh engine oil off my hoody?"
Dr Beckmann stain devil (oils / sauces version), there are about 8 variants.

Managed to get red wine out of a white shirt with it!

May take two cycles to remove all

Cliftonite

8,671 posts

160 months

Swarfega?

5lab

1,815 posts

218 months

if you've got some degreaser that'll often get it out (if you don't have swarfega). failing that fairy liquid does a fairly good job

Blue_star

636 posts

38 months

Is that more of a threat, did you book boys road trip last minute? Was she holding pickaxe when she asked you?

Robertb

3,354 posts

260 months

Brake cleaner is an excellent degreaser and evaporates away. Had success using it to remove bicycle oil from my study carpet.

In this instance I’d soak the oily area on the hoodie with a neat washing up liquid for a while then shove it in the washing machine.

Mr Squarekins

1,489 posts

84 months

Spray wd40 all over the spot and rub, dab with kitchen roll. I got gloss paint off a fleece with this, last weekend. Like new now.

ninepoint2

3,896 posts

182 months

Cakey_

220 posts

48 months

Elbow grease degrease spray, i think its yellow. Its saved me a couple of times with grease and oil marks. Somewhere like homebargains should sell it with the household cleaning sprays.

SimonTheSailor

12,878 posts

250 months

Lots of saliva - suck it out.

turbomoggie

307 posts

126 months

I had a 'funny' incident with a slippery oil filter. It was a cartoon moment of it slipping out of my hands just as I took it off the handy integrated peg on my oil drain tray, I attempted to catch the oil filter, it slipped again and somehow ended up by my face cheek and it rolling down the shoulder of my t shirt before landing on the floor.

So oil on my hands, face, beard, t shirt and drive way.

I thought the T shirt was a gonner and put it in to a pile of old clothes I keep for doing DIY. After several washes over a few months of wearing the T shirt for other grubby tasks, (with bio powder) the oil stain eventually disappeared.


LunarOne

6,819 posts

159 months

Brake cleaner, or petrol!