Spilled some coke when making a left turn and it fell off the cup holder and went right on the carpet big time (damn McDonald's super size cup, very poor design ). I couldn't get most of the soda dried up, because I had to go to work. But my main worry is, will the metal underneath the carpet or wherever the soda leaked into, cause rust?

 

it might get moldy.

 

Unlikely. But it will stink. Mine does.

Almost 1 gallon of water spilled behind driver side seat. It took me 1+ hours to dry out most of it with the absorber. Well, its only water, what could possibly go wrong, I said to myself. Now it stinks like a public bathroom.

I'm thinking of washing the carpet with some detergent.

 

i noticed that while my car was moving during the left turn, I noticed that some of the soda went through the crack between the carpet and the plastic interior piece at the door sill. How far does the carpet or any type of protection go under that plastic piece on a 2k Civic coupe (Si)? Is there still something to cover the metal? Sorry for being so paranoid, I just hate the idea of having rust. A friend of mine with an ITR said that hondas come with an anti-rust coating, since the car had to be shipped overseas. But that was with his car, and since the civics were built here, do the U.S. spec vehicles have that coating too? Thanks for the help guys


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