Hey guy/gals,

anyone have a good plan on how to dry my car out...i left the windows down overnight....and it rained a lot...the seats and front floors are real wet....anyone done this too?


thanks in advance...

never done that... I'm not an idiot

but seriously it depnds on how much work your willing to do. My advise is pull the carpet and padding out and let them dry outside the car so they don't start to mold, shampoo the carpet before it goes back in, with the seats just shampoo them and they will be fine. But first thing to do is take a wet dry vac or spomthething if there is still water puddled up on the floor

I left the top down on my vert right were a sprinkler soaks the street. I just let the car run/idle for a couple of hours with the heater on. Dried up most of it. Other than that, use a shop vac and towels to soak up as much water as possible before running the heater.

i've done it once just take a shop vack to it. and if you really want to get down to it take everyting out and let it air dry.

thanks, yea i dropped the top and let it dry out as much as could along with the use of towels etc...step two will be getting ahold of a dry vac...

doesn anyone know what longterm effects this will have on the car? basically is this a big deal or just shake it off?

I also agree with running the car for a few hours with the heat on full blast. Just crack all of your windows to allow the moisture to escape. I had the windshield in my GAGT replaced and the morons didn't seal it right. I had a leak the first rain and I just ran the car and it evaporated it all. And to make sure it wasn't an easy target for theft, I locked the keys in the car (better chance of hearing the windows shatter than a door closing) running and used my other set to unlock the car when I wanted to shut it off.

Just shake it off. The fabric will be a little stiff for a week or two but it all softens back up.

Blot and Shop vac as much water as you can out of the upholstery and carpet, grab a blow dryer, and try to get the padding underneath the seats where the heater can't reach, you can still run the heater but do that after blotting/vac'ing/blowdrying.

You may have to leave it overnight after that, and I'd recommend leaving the windows open a crack so its not a closed environment (hahaha...umm, just make sure theres no rain in the forecast first)

When its finally dry enough you can push down on the seats and not have your hand get moist, you're going to want to hit the seating surfaces that got wet with an automotive upholstery cleaner to lift out and kill any bacteria that could have started to form (so your interior/seats don't get a funk or rot, which is possible, and is why its such a PITA trying to recover flood damaged cars)

just my .02