Share you method for cleaning stains from older boat carpet

[swbca]

While using a small electric pump to extract oil from my transmission 18 months ago, a fitting on the outgoing tubing blew off and shot oil onto my 2004 ProStar carpet before I stopped the pump.   My final cleanup of that mess was with a bucket of hot water with a high concentration of Dawn dish soap.  Then flush with a garden hose then repeated the process. 

There was no sign of oil spill incident through last summer, but then this spring, the stain had partially re-emerged.  This time I used a Bissel "Pet" carpet cleaner which injects the soap solution, vacuums the solution and spins a brush at the same time.   The vacuumed water was pretty dark, so I repeated until the water was clear.

I did the same thing with other smaller stains that were in carpet.  This should get us through this summer with a stain free carpet.

[TomH]

A pressure washer is really effective actually.  Otherwise, my FIL has a hot water extractor that works well, and we also now have a couple different carpet cleaners (upright vac and handheld spot vac) due to the dog that work pretty well.

[skihacker]

If it's an oil or trans fluid stain aerosol brake cleaner works pretty well, VERY flammable most times so be careful. 

[BKistler]

Charcoal lighter works well,  at least for small stains. 

[2Valve]

Years ago I discovered a great method of extracting grease, oil from carpeting.

Fantastik cleaner.

[S1Pitts]

For us Canadians - Canadian Tire sells a product exactly for this issue. I dropped an entire bucket of hot engine oil on the carpet doing an oil change. Sorry I cannot recall what it is called but it is a small bottle of carpet oil extractor that you apply, flood with hot water and suck up with a shop vac. It came out 100% and never returned.

Next time I am there I will see if I can find it again and post the info.