How To Get Gum Off Car Floor Mats

How to remove dried gum from carpet.

How to get gum off car floor mats.

Rubbing back and forth may damage the carpet fibers and cause more damage to your flooring. In a pinch turpentine or other organic solvent will usually do the job too. If there is anything left use the tweezers to remove the rest. For rubber floor mats pick away the largest part of the chewing gum.

Put an ice cube in a plastic bag and hold it on the gum for a couple minutes to loosen it. How to remove gum from car floor mats. Gently wipe across the harder areas. In this video i will show you how i remove gum from the interior of the car.

I had the same thing happen to me when my car was a week old. Wipe the gum off the knife blade after each pass to avoid re applying the gum to the carpet. Getting it off can be a sticky situation whether it be fresh gum or old and dried chewing gum. To get the gum out of the carpeting i dabbed goop off or is it goof off on it until the gum came out.

Use a goo gone wipe to pick out the loose pieces of gum. The juice in the wipe will break down the adhesive in the gum but for older gum it will take some time. Use a dull butter knife to scrape as much of the sticky stuff off as you can. To get rid of the smell of the goop goof off i applied a bit of resolve which smells like froot loops a bit carpet cleaner in that area.

Then use desolvit or orange cleaner or gum remover to get the rest. They help protect the original carpeting in our vehicles by collecting all of the dirt and grime that transfers from our shoes our pets our gear etc and it doesn t take long for them to get pretty darn filthy. Gently lift the gum off the carpet by scraping a knife over the gum in the same direction each time. For carpeted floor mats use the same technique as the rubber mats but re wet the cloth a few times and rub the gum out of the carpet.

Let s take a look at how to get your carpet looking new again and don t worry even if you ve had a record gum bubble explode in your living room or car there are ways to make it look like it never happened. Wet the cloth with the solvent and rub lightly until gone. If you ve got rubber floor mats for your truck or car it s easy to remove sticky stuff. The links to where i bought the items used is below on amazon.