Fishing is a great hobby, especially in Canada and the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. It is a great area of our country and we just got back. But all too often the catch bucket spills in the car, making rental cars unrentable. We found a solution for you anglers out there.

First the fish odor is not ON the carpet, it is IN the carpet. It soaks through the carpet into the jute backing. So, working with one of our clients who had a real fishy smelling car, we shampooed the rug in the rear of the SUV with a good amount of water to get down into the jute. Then, we used a wet vac to extract the fish/water residue. We then pump sprayed the areas with Marvel-USTM Odor Eliminator. When the carpet dried the car was fish free, and it did not return even in the hot sun.

Marvel USTM Odor Eliminator is a powerful daily car refresher and deodorizer. It is used by professional car cleaners and national car rental agencies to keep car rentals smelling new and fresh. Follow this link for more information on how to purchase this daily car deodorizer.

When you wash your car, are you throwing money down the drain?

Bug Buster Jelly Pre-Wash is not only a Professional Bug Removal Treatment, but it also puts your money to work!  Just compare any car wash product vs. Bug Buster Jelly.  Did you know that 50-70% of these other car cleaner products fall off the brush or rag before it hits the car?

To scientifically measure this, we tried out a name-brand bug removal product.  First, we dipped the brush, and then moved the brush from the bucket to the vehicle.

As you can see, their auto bug removal product cascades off the brush and falls onto the ground.  To measure this loss, we caught the falling liquid into a plastic bag (see photo), and weighed the liquid.  An average of 221 grams (approximately 1/2 a pound) of their bug removing product was captured.  So, for every sixteen cars there’s a full gallon of your newly purchased bug removing product that’s falling off the brush as wasted product.  And if you clean 500 cars a day, that’s 31.25 gallons – wasted.

It’s no wonder why the line cleaners are using a plastic credit card's edge to scrape the bugs off first, and investing more time to try to scrub the bugs off.  And yet, the cars on the ready-line are still covered in paint-etching bug bodies.

The advantage of Bug Buster Jelly Pre-Wash Treatment is 100% of the product sticks to the car.  All of the product stays on the surface of the vehicle loosening bug bodies and requiring much less effort.  In the next photos, the same brush is shown clean and then dipped into Bug Buster Jelly.  Notice that there is NO loss to dripping.  100% of the product is at work.

For large volume locations use a 30 gallon drum.  Just pump the gel into any pump-spray bottle, so that

all line cleaners can carry a light refillable applicator to the car.  We have found that pump-spraying the Bug Buster Jelly dispenses a very thin film, minimizing the amount of product used.  But, you can use either method with Bug Buster Jelly – either as a spray, or dip and spread with brush.

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I was recently asked to deodorize a car about two hundred feet from where we were actually working.  When I asked the agent to bring the car over, he said he "couldn't".  Why?... "I can't stand the smell, even to drive it 200 feet!" was his answer. 

When I got to the car and opened the door, a strong odor of dead fish filled the hot Florida air.  The team had already vacuumed the car.  They had steam cleaned the rugs, but the odor persisted.  I smelled the rugs....no odor.  I smelled the seats....no odor.  I opened the trunk and the smell was overpowering.  I lifted the rug covering the spare tire and the tire well was full of water, fish heads, fish entrails....and stink. 

Two fisherman rented the car, filled the spare tire well with ice to preserve their catch.  When they got back to the car they filleted the fish, and left the heads, tails etc for the rental car company to clean.   The hot Florida sun didn't help.   We opened the drain in the spare tire well and drained out the water.  We vacuumed up the fish parts.  We removed the spare tire and jack, we washed the trunk and spare tire with soap and water... although better, it still smelled fishy.  We wet a clean rag with KLC's Atomizer Liquid - Fabric Deodorizer & Protectant and wiped the hard surfaces of the trunk, the spare tire and jack.  We then used the atomizer with the KLC Atomizer Liquid - pointed directly at the trunk carpet, and for 60 seconds on the car interior carefully directing the flow directly on all cloth surfaces.  Then we closed the doors and allowed the atomized deodorizer (looks like a fog in the car) to do it's job.  Because of the small (fog-like) paricles you CANNOT enter the car for at least 10 minutes.  After that, the seats are dry and the odor is being eliminated.

Within a couple of hours the car was returned to the ready line -- free of fish odor. 

The moral of the story is to be sure and locate and remove all odor sources.  If odor source has soaked into a carpet or upholstery wash the affected area with detergent and a least of pint of water and use a wet-vac to remove odor causing materials that have soaked into the carpet backing or seat-foam underneath the upholstery, then treat with the KLC Fabric Deodorizer, being sure it soaks into affected areas.