Nothing has worked. I would say that the Dawn seemed to cut the odor a bit. I left the car sitting with the window wide open and the sunroof open in the garage for the last three days.
I can still smell it.
So, what would you do?
I’m willing to try anything, 24 months left on my lease and I’m stuck with this.
I was thinking of Pine Sol cleaner, as it has a strong scent and maybe that would kill the smell.
I also did try a Yankee Candle clean cotton scented air freshener in there for awhile and that made me ill combined with the soup smell that lingers.
Darn car, it only has about 10K miles on it and it still had that nice “new car smell” until this.
I’ll never own a car with cloth seats again, leather for me from now on, but in the meantime……
Forgot to add that I also sprayed Febreze on it a few times, to no avail.
I’d worry that a shower cleaning product would bleach the color out of the carpet and cloth seats, so I wouldn’t dare try that. One time, I was using a shower/bathtub cleaner and leaned against the side of the tub while I was cleaning it and it acutally bleached the color out in a line across my belly, where I was leaning. So, I just wouldn’t dare do that on a 1 year old leased vehicle.