Getting oil from bicycle chain off car seat?

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danepak

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#248696 6-Apr-2019 12:00

There's quite a few solutions, but they all seem to involve products only available in the US.
Yesterday, I was so 'clever'. I put my daughters bicycle on my backseat and look what it did!
Any suggestions are much appreciated.

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#2211676 6-Apr-2019 12:05

What's the seat covering made from?

tdgeek

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#2211677 6-Apr-2019 12:06

I would put some petrol on a cloth as that will dissolve the oil. Just as it dies for tar. Get as clean as you can as quickly as you can, then i'd get dish detergent and warm water, or basically any type of soap and warm water to neutralise/dilute the petrol. Removing the oil with petrol is the easy part, the harder part is neutralising that so it doesn't damage the seat

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#2211685 6-Apr-2019 12:19

Reminds me of when the Rena grounded off the coast of tauranga and we would go to the beach and the oil would stick to everything, now we have a heavy diesel oil stain in our car interior , from the rena.

But, I agree, petrol could do the trick.

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#2211690 6-Apr-2019 12:48

You could try dilute lemon juice and water. I would test it on the fabric first.

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#2211692 6-Apr-2019 12:51

Don't use petrol get something like simple green or some citrus based cleaner

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#2211693 6-Apr-2019 12:52

https://shop.countdown.co.nz/shop/ProductDetails?Stockcode=38550&name=sard-wonder-laundry-soap-eucalyptus-oil

Job done.

Edit: actually I had to remove some oily marks from carpet tiles at work and found one of the supermarket foaming carpet cleaners in a spray can worked brilliantly. Don't recall the brand but it was in a pink can. Just spray it on and leave for a minute to soften the oil/grease and then use a damp cloth to remove.

The sard wonder soap above is excellent but easier to use on things you can chuck in the washing machine afterwards.

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danepak

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#2211694 6-Apr-2019 12:55

Ge0rge: What's the seat covering made from?

No idea, sorry.

It's a Nissan Leaf (gen 1 from 2012).

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danepak

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#2211695 6-Apr-2019 12:55

robjg63: https://shop.countdown.co.nz/shop/ProductDetails?Stockcode=38550&name=sard-wonder-laundry-soap-eucalyptus-oil

Job done.

Ooohhh, I like.

Thanks for all the inputs, but this one sounds really simple and doesn't involve petrol.

Have you tried it before?

sleepy

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#2211714 6-Apr-2019 13:33

We use CRC Brakleen on fabric so should work for you

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#2211717 6-Apr-2019 13:38

Sard is awesome, but it is a bar of soap so will be hard to get out of the seat afterwards. Water and a cloth should do it (get the soap out), along with a visit to one of the self service car washes and use their vacuum.

danepak

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#2211855 6-Apr-2019 17:11

Ta daa!!!
SARD did the trick! Thanks heaps!
I applied SARD and used a cloth and warm water.
Haven't got time to take it to the car wash.
I assume that I can apply water again, if there's a mark from the soap.

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#2211871 6-Apr-2019 17:28

Awesome. Also for us to learn of this product. I did a quick Google and while every mention was the general household cleaning stain removal stuff, one soaked a mechanics overalls in it and that worked great too.

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#2211936 6-Apr-2019 21:34

danepak:
SARD did the trick!

Cool.

I've had Sard fail to shift a rusty heavy machine grease stain on white cotton, but rather than petrol I went to white spirit, fearing the petrol smell. After the white spirit other cleaners began to work, and Dixon's finished the job. I imagine in a vehicle avoiding the lingering petrol smells from the nasty additives would be good.

danepak

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#2211948 6-Apr-2019 22:05

Will be interesting to see, if there's a mark tomorrow, when the wet patch had dried.

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#2211989 6-Apr-2019 22:32

Good now give you car a vacuum it's working on my OCD. :D

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