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Having left the carpet overnight with a wad of kitchen roll over the oil stain, held down with a small paving slab, more oil/isopropyl mixture came out by blotting. Didn't have any vanish carpet spray - so used the 1001 spot spray version we just happened to have left over, then after blotting yet again, used a 30% solution of 1001 carpet cleaner followed by more blotting.

"Borrowed" Karcher steam cleaner from indoors, and using no nozzle other than the one that normally pushes into the extension pipes or various cleaning heads, forced as much unrestricted pressure as possible through the carpet at angle of around 20°. I also used a windscreen scrapper to remove as much hot emulsion as possible from the carpet, before repeating the steaming using cotton cloths to catch the remaining goo.

Absolutely amazed as to how much oil must have been left in - two very soggy, oily, cotton cloths later - the carpet appears to be clean. There is no oily/slick feeling to the pile and no odour left even though the carpet is damp and warm.

Just got to wait for it to dry before finishing it off with bicarb/ Fuller's earth/ or ground coffee - this is going to end up as the most expensive piece of carpet we own - but will smell fantastic - all I need to do now is add the smell of cooking bread and advertise with the local estate agents...............