Initial Cleaning and Interior Projects

My son is coming over tonight to see the car so I don't want to tear anything apart substantially.  I also didn't want to do something so small that I could save it for a day after work.  I decided I'd pull the bottom of the rear seat to clean under it and to clean the fabric as it had several significant stains.  

When I pulled up the seat, I was surprised to see clumps of old carpet underlayment.  A moment later, the smell of mouse pee hit me in the face.  I lifted the seat fully out of the way and could see little mouse droppings under the seat.  He is no doubt long gone but that makes me want to immediately replace all the carpet and clean all the seats.

I vacuumed up everything that I could under the seat and then off the bottom of the seat foam.  There wasn't anything special under the back seat except a gum wrapper, folder label, mini Mag light, and a BIC pen.  I'd hoped to leave the underlayment as it is immediately above the mufflers but it will need to go in the trash.  

I cleaned the seat with a Bissel Little Green carpet cleaner we have had for years.  I ran the carpet cleaner over the back seat a total of five complete passes and it finally started to look much better.  It is rather disgusting to do this work and I only did the bottom of the seat.  I could probably do without sharing this picture but this is the water that was being vacuumed out of the fabric on the first pass with the carpet cleaner.  

I'm letting the seat bottom dry out in the sun today.  I coated the bottom of the foam with some Febreze to remove any residual smell.  I still need to clean more under the rear seat area and the back of the rear seat.  However, since it is Easter Sunday and we have guest coming over, I'll call it done a little early today.