Bottle of red wine spilt in boot.

[ScouseIan]

My wife borrowed my car the other day to go shopping. Its a VW Phaeton. A bottle of wine managed to escape from the bags and pirouette around the boot until it smashed. The (red) wine went all over the boot cover/carpet and through/around it into the spare wheel well.

In the spare wheel well I now keep a typre with no wheel, various items like a jack wrapped in some clothes and other bits. The wine went through these also.

At the bottom of the well is a plastic circular 'thingy' with a hole in it where some cabling goes. The wine also went in there. Its a small hole about 1.5 cm in diameter. Nothing has gone wrong although I can't get rid of the smell. I used some kitchen roll rolled up into long strips to try and get some out.

VW want hundreds of pounds to take this item out and get to it. I am going to have to live with it as best I can.

I wonder if that cable goes to my towbar electrics?

Any other tips on what to do? Maybe put some salt in there or sand to absorb any other wine? I wonder if it will corrode the cable due to the acid in the wine?

Thanks for reading

Ian

 

[Glenn_5132962]

Bad luck.

I wouldn't do anything other than clean the carpet & trim as best you can. Certainly dont pour anything down the hole that could make matters worse or cause corrosion like salt. Eventually the wine will evaporate & the smell will go.

 

[Martin24]

If you can fit a straw down try that, seems a shame to waste any.

Try bicarb on the carpet, leave a day then vacumn

 

[valeter]

Hi Ian,take the carpet out and clean with soapy water with bicarb in the water then do the same around the boot.The area where the wine went into just try and get it up with kitchen roll if any is out of reach put some air freshners in the boot and the smell will eventually go

 

[ScouseIan]

ha ha martin. I like it.

Thanks for the bicarb tips.

Cheers