Hi everyone,

Well, the car has come back from the detailer's
shop, and here's the verdict:

smells pretty good.

I breathed a sigh of relief as I took a deep whiff of my newly deodorized mercedes. The ozone really does a bang-up job of clearing the air. Actually, it leaves its own strange aroma of ionized air, but it's a lot better than sour milk. The trunk responded really well to treatment, and I suspect its because I didn't actually spill any milk into the fabric -- instead, it just sort of evaporated from the carton into the trunk space. When you lean in real close to the trunk, you can still catch a funky eau de milk, but I suspect that will remain for some time then disappear. As long as my passengers aren't dry-heaving, I don't mind some residual odor in the trunk.

Now, all I do is keep some baking soda in the trunk to absorb any leftover odor, and return to the detailer for a (free) follow-up trunk ozoning if necessary.

My advice to anyone who encounters a similar problem: definitely not a DIY, go right to the professionals before you make it worse.

Thanks for all your help and advice everyone,

Zach
1992 300CE