What is the best way to remove car/motorcyle oil off your driveway?

it will take sometime, but throw some sand on it. The sand will soak the oil up and then you can dispose the oil in the street gutter! LOL. Just kidding you can go to wal mart, pepboys, or any store that has an automotive department and ask for the prodcut from one of the sale person. I bought one about two years ago, but I forgot the name on the bottle.What is the best way to remove car/motorcyle oil off your driveway?
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Take Kitty litter, and spread it thick all over the stain. then take some pure kerosene and pour it in the middle. scrub it around with a broom until its all soaked with the kerosene. then pour more kitty litter on top and wait a while for it to dry. then sweep it all up. now you will have another problem. a big super clean spot, in your dirty drive! Seriously, this will suck all the oil out of that driveway like a sponge, done it for yrs. Use diesel fuel if you like, even gas, but thats dangerous. any solvent that will float the oil so the litter absorbs it will do. your not gonna beleive it till you try it!What is the best way to remove car/motorcyle oil off your driveway?
first soak up as much as you can with oil dry (or kitty litter), sweep off, then use a degreaser to wash it off.


From a Harley rider
Whatever type of oil absorbent you use, it's not going to just soak up all the oil.


Put the absorbent down on the area you want to clean.


Grind it into the cement with your feet.


Pretend you're back in the 50s and do the ';twist';.
By far the best results on concrete is to wipe up excess oil with a rag and then put on a thin layer of cement powder. Brush or rub around with a rag or something. If you put it on thin you don't even have to sweep it up and you won't see a stain.


If it's an old stain it still works just that there is know excess to clean up first.
Use Cat litter initially followed by the undiluted product Simple Green. Rinse thoroughly, no more stain!
The best thing I've found is Perlite,it is used in gardening.It will remove any oil and stain,just pour it over and stamp it down a bit.
do kitty litter, then messy as heck but it worked for one of my buddys, you can use gasoline and some rags. worked rather well for him. just don't smoke while doin it.


dont think it is prob epa friendly either, so watch for green neighbors!
A lot of these made me laugh, especially if the oil has been down for a while, the kitty litter will not work. Cheap easy way, spray carb cleaner on it, wipe away. (that is, if the cement has been trauled to a smooth finish.) If it is a sweeped driveway with ';sandpaper'; type finish, use the same stuff, but you are going to have to work it into it and use the least amount of water possible to wash it away, for the environment that is...
The stuff that the automotive stores sell particularly for removing motor oil, in my experience, never really works. Try some kitty litter. I know it sounds weird, but I used it a few months back on my drive way and it worked great, and its cheap. Just cover the entire stain in a thick pile so that there is litter for the oil to soak into. Trust me this works. If the oil is completely dry, this will even lighten the stain, if not take it all off, depending on the stain's intensity.
First absorb what you can as mention by others.


then use a diluted boric acid to wash a (concrete) driveway of the stain. For tar driveways look for a suitable driveway wash at the hardware store.
Ditto on the kitty litter (especially soda ash based kitty litter), followed by the laundry soap scrubbed in, and then rinsed or pressure washed.





For many, the kitty litter (applied twice) does it. The first time to soaked up the excess. The second time scuffed in with a stiff broom or your boot to lighten (whiten) the discoloration.
after using kitty litter etc... drench it in laundry detergent, then maybe power wash it. should get all of it.
Throw kitty litter down ASAP. Some automotive stores will even sell something just for this purpose, but it's basically the same thing.