Battery Acid Spill

[silverGPX]

Had a battery in my boot and it toppled over and it has leaked some acid out, ive stripped the boot out of everything and wiped it out, however it seems to have soaked into the black material that is under the s[are tyre and smells really bad..

I was just wondering if anyone could reccommend a solvent or something or other so that i can easily scrape all the black stuff on the bottom of the boot out. its sort of like the roof glue i think.

Or if something could cancel out the spill/smell like an alkaline?

[Rambo]

from what ive heard bi Carb soda for battery spills

[J]

that hard black stuff is sound deadener... the only ways to get it of is

a. hammer and chistle
b. dry ice

[FTEvolution]

I have done it and it's a c**t of a problem; mine seeped under the rear bench seat too and started to eat away at the foam :S

LOTS of baking soda and water, just slosh it in there. You need to get rid of every single trace piece of it. Took me days...

and that fuckin' smell... RAWR!

EDIT! btw, don't forget to remove the rubber bungs in the boot so it can all drain out

[silverGPX]

thanks guys,

yea it smells like rotten eggs, do u think i should use baking soda and boiling water or just cold water. And how many scoops per litre is there a certain ratio?

[FTEvolution]

thanks guys,

yea it smells like rotten eggs, do you think i should use baking soda and boiling water or just cold water. And how many scoops per litre is there a certain ratio?

I used boiling for a start, then cold for the last 40-50 litres lol

No ratio that I know of, but I did spend over $50 on baking soda :S

[silverGPX]

$50 on baking soda!? i just bought like one little box from woolworths of it.

would an alkaline cleaner do the same thing, sort of like a chlorine or oven cleaner?

[silverGPX]

all fixed.

[FTEvolution]

all fixed.

Good on ya, and yeah, I brought 20 small boxes of baking soda XD used it all too... as I said, I was thorough

[silverGPX]

I used 3, but i also scraped the top layer of sound deadening off and put rust converter on the surface rust that had started to appear and painted over it

[silverGPX]

Gotta redo this again! c**t of a thing.

[SchumieFan]

bi carb and white vinegar (neutral)... then re-paint

[silverGPX]

Nah not a spillage this time, just i left jacks and a heap of sh*t roll around in there and chipped all the paint off.

[SchumieFan]

atleast you can close the boot and forget about it.

wont be that bad surely... unless there was some spirited driving involved!

[silverGPX]

Yeah ill get to it, need some help from some other members, lol everytime i go to work on mine i end up working on someone elses car.

Need a DIY for SilverGPX!

[Taz]

I have a massive house to do this with now so some good DIY days coming soon