So I basically found out the hard way to why i should not let a sibling drive my car......pretty much got gum on the floor mat......any household materials that i could use to get it out without damaging the fabric? any tips/tricks to getting the gum out?? thanks alot guys....sorry if this isnt a new thread

Try taking as much of it off as you can. Then use Goo gone the spray kind. What color is your floor mat?

alright ill try that but i dont have goo gone is there anything else i can use?
its black and the gum is white...

Yes he is right Goo Gone is the way to go

hey at least its the floor mat so its always replaceable.. if its part of the carpet/frabic on your car then that would really suck.. .

also did you give your sibling a good beating?

Gum on floor matt!!!!!! Help!!!!d

Buy a new Floor matt

Buy a new Floor matt

Have your sibling buy the new floor mat, if he/she is old enough to drive your car, make them pay for their mistake.

Definitely Goo Gone, but you can also first use an ice cube to embrittle some of it and get it off that way. Just be careful you don't remove fibers with the hard gum.

Hey, it could be worse. Back in my single days I stopped late one night to help a woman trying to change a tire. She was driving an absolutely mint 8 yr old Chevy Caprice (4500 lbs of road-hugging American steel) and had created a foot long crease by trying to raise the car by placing the BUMPER jack on the tire cutout of the FENDER.

While I was using my scissors jack to get her jack out and change the flat, she started to cry. "My husband just had this car fixed up and repainted. He's going to kill me, isn't he?"

"Yep," I told her. "Or you could blame it on some punk kid who stopped and tried to help you out."

It may sound crazy, but I have heard that if you can put the mat in a freezer and chill it down, the gum will get brittle. You wil be able to chip a large portion of it away. Good luck!

alright thanks guys...
haha its my sister so im not gonna beat her.... and ill just take her car out for the night bmw 325ci black on black with m3 rims baby haha......
but anyways ill try out the ice cube.... but for the left over stuff is there anything i can use that u can find around the house?

^^ why the hell did she want to drive YOUR car? lol...

Dude, just make her buy you new mats.



I'm not sure if this will work for removing gum but, I remeber some1 telling to use gasoline. :dunno: Haven't tried it but thought I share.

Household remedy... use peanut-butter to remove the gum if in a hurry, it's quite effective.

Otherwise, a clothing iron & cardboard/construction-paper work well. Heat the iron, use the cardboard/construction-paper as a blotter between the iron & the floor-mat. This is also effective for glue/wax/paint on carpets. . .

WD40 works too but then attracts dust/dirt to the floor-mat. Gasoline works well, but messy/smelly to handle & may melt/discolor the floor-mat. For large messes, freezing works reasonably well, though there may be residual gum left. For detailed cleaning, heated vinegar & a painting-brush/toothbrush work great, but obviously an odorous solution. . .

Goo Gone is the best solution as it's inexpensive, very simple to use, doesn't make a mess, and it's effective. . .

Goo Gone is my number 1 choice. WD-40 would be my second.

k thanks alot for the responses guys ill try them out.....ill post what happens haha.thanks again

alright so basically i just took a can of compressed air turned it upside down....froze the gum and scraped it off with credit card.... haha and its alll gone its so freaking sweet its like it was never there.....thanks for the ideas guys

How cool is that!!!:naughty:

haha yea it was pretty sweet....:thmsup:

Pretty freakin' ingenious, I'd say!:notworthy

Nice one, man! There are many creative uses for compressed-air in a can from what I recall. Freezing insects, chilling a drink, crystallizing dessert syrups, and so on. . .

Nice one, man! There are many creative uses for compressed-air in a can from what I recall. Freezing insects, chilling a drink, crystallizing dessert syrups, and so on. . .

wow thanks for the ideas i know what ill spend tomorrow doing :D

what was your sister doing spitting gum on your mats?

Happened to me the first week I got my car. I wet it and worked as much of it out as I could. I got a good amount out and somehow the rest just worked its way out over time.

what was your sister doing spitting gum on your mats?

+1... or did she track it in from the bottom of her shoe, via hot pavement?