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Old 04-06-2007, 08:03 AM
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Windex

I had a bottle of windex on my seat and it leaked some how. i was gone for the last week and came home to a big sticky oily stain!!!! how would i get this out? soapy water? or is there something spacific?

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Old 04-06-2007, 08:05 AM
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Oil stains are really hard to get out, like chapstick..there may be something specific, but I got mud out with oxy clean when I sunk my Runner! Good luck.
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Windex is bad -- has ammonia in it...
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Carpet shampooer is what I would use.
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Well my mom has a little bissell carpet cleaner thingy. i mixed the cleaner a little on the strong side. after leting it set and dry it seams to have worked(at least on the material i dont care what the under neath looks like)
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I've gotten some stains out with Tuff Stuff interior shampoo and a stiff brush followed by a wet vac. Don't know if it will work on Windex though.

I looked up the MSDS information from Johnson and Johnson for plain old blue Windex. According to that it contains:

about 1% propylene gycol, that's probably the oily feeling part and it likely is to prevent it from freezing during transport

about 5% isopropanol which is just alcohol

and about 94% water.

I'm thinking the stain should easily come out with little effort.
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Polmolive dishsoap and hot water, Even if you dont get all the soap out and it dries in it will help prevent future staining and doesnt hurt fabric or foam.
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Simple Green 50 50 mix works great on grease dont know why it wouldnt work on that
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