Can smokers smell be removed ffrom a 928 interior?
02-10-2005, 12:39 PM
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Oh yes - one more thing .... if you want to kill your 928, go take it to a detailer. They love to wet carpets. Including the passenger footwell. What's under the passenger footwell? 
Also, NEVER use armorall on your dash. The best dashes I have had have been untreated ones (vinyl) .... I'm still unsure about whether I should treat my leather dash. 
Also, NEVER use armorall on your dash. The best dashes I have had have been untreated ones (vinyl) .... I'm still unsure about whether I should treat my leather dash.
02-10-2005, 04:08 PM
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While I cannot argue with the scientific modality that Docmirror provided on Fabreeze, I will have to take issue with its effectiveness. No 928 experience here, but I did have an Audi A4 owned by a modest lady smoker until earlier this year. It had a decided cigarette smell inside when I got the car...I knew this when I bought it. I vacuumed and detailed the interior thoroughly 2 or 3 times over the period of about a month. I also gave it a good health airing out...doors and windows wide open for hours on end whenever I could!
Even with this, the smell was noticeable at times, so I tried the auto-specific type of Fabreeze. I closed up the car and sprayed all the surfaces with it...particular attention paid to cloth and cloth-like surfaces such as carperts and the headliner. I found that you had to almost dampen the surface to the condensation stage...but just not quite. I also sprayed some into the heating system intake. I used 2 containers to accomplish this. Did the trunk too.
I sealed up the car and left it overnight. Next day I was surprised at how well it had worked. After everything had dried, the smell was almost completely gone. I waited a week and repeated the Fabreeze application again.
As JimB noted, during the summer when the car was parked with windows up in the sunshine, the smell would return. I found it necessary to reapplied Fabreeze about once a year in the early summer. After that, the car was fine for another year. Each seaon the cigarette small was less and less noticable and this last summer I did not need to re-Fabreeze it at all. I had the car for 3 summers and most people commented that they would never have known the car was a smoker's car unless I had told them so.
I will state that my car did not have a really heavy cigarette smell to start with...the PO was not a heavy smoker and likely smoked a less-offensive smelling brand of cigs. But either way, this worked for me and I have recommended it others who have found it good as well. It may be potentially bad for us, but hey...what isn't.
I don't see much to lose except maybe $20 for a few bottles of the stuff. Give it a try! Even do a test on a removable piece like the console side panels or something.
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Even with this, the smell was noticeable at times, so I tried the auto-specific type of Fabreeze. I closed up the car and sprayed all the surfaces with it...particular attention paid to cloth and cloth-like surfaces such as carperts and the headliner. I found that you had to almost dampen the surface to the condensation stage...but just not quite. I also sprayed some into the heating system intake. I used 2 containers to accomplish this. Did the trunk too.
I sealed up the car and left it overnight. Next day I was surprised at how well it had worked. After everything had dried, the smell was almost completely gone. I waited a week and repeated the Fabreeze application again.
As JimB noted, during the summer when the car was parked with windows up in the sunshine, the smell would return. I found it necessary to reapplied Fabreeze about once a year in the early summer. After that, the car was fine for another year. Each seaon the cigarette small was less and less noticable and this last summer I did not need to re-Fabreeze it at all. I had the car for 3 summers and most people commented that they would never have known the car was a smoker's car unless I had told them so.
I will state that my car did not have a really heavy cigarette smell to start with...the PO was not a heavy smoker and likely smoked a less-offensive smelling brand of cigs. But either way, this worked for me and I have recommended it others who have found it good as well. It may be potentially bad for us, but hey...what isn't.
I don't see much to lose except maybe $20 for a few bottles of the stuff. Give it a try! Even do a test on a removable piece like the console side panels or something.
Regards,
SteveCo in St. John's
02-10-2005, 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Tahoe Shark
I'm feeling better now. 
The smell isn't really heavy, more like a pipe with a sweet kind of smell. Definately smoke but kind of faint. Maybe there is hope.
The smell isn't really heavy, more like a pipe with a sweet kind of smell. Definately smoke but kind of faint. Maybe there is hope.HTH, YMMV, LSMFT
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02-11-2005, 11:10 PM
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I hear Joe Pesci's voice .... "Aww ****, now look what this TRUCKING useless ***** trucka did to my blade, YOU FREAKING FAT FILTHY B4STARD,, take that, and that, and that, and that ...... spread nicotine on my blade I'LL KILL YOU AGAIN YOU FREAK" ... 
02-12-2005, 12:11 AM
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I bought a couple of ex-smoker cars for my kids... and lived to regret it.
Even after we tried basically everything mentioned here - and felt pretty good about getting the smoke smell out...
The cars still always just smelled, I dunno, stale. They never actually smelled good!
Even after we tried basically everything mentioned here - and felt pretty good about getting the smoke smell out...
The cars still always just smelled, I dunno, stale. They never actually smelled good!
02-12-2005, 03:12 PM
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It's in the HVAC system.
Turn on heater/AC on high spray Ozium into the car till you can't stand it.
Close doors and windows walk away for 5 minutes.
You will have to air the car out afterwards - ionizers make some people crazy/irritable-, and maybe scrape-out all the soiled ions laying on the floorboards -they are small you have to look close-.
Take a drive to the mountains for some fresh ions.
Turn on heater/AC on high spray Ozium into the car till you can't stand it.
Close doors and windows walk away for 5 minutes.
You will have to air the car out afterwards - ionizers make some people crazy/irritable-, and maybe scrape-out all the soiled ions laying on the floorboards -they are small you have to look close-.
Take a drive to the mountains for some fresh ions.
02-12-2005, 03:17 PM
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After all these posts and solutions, I've got an idea that's so crazy and far-fetched it just might work!
Why not simply by a car that hasn't been smoked in?
Why not simply by a car that hasn't been smoked in?
02-12-2005, 03:42 PM
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I agree w/Bigs. You can't really EVER get ALL the smoke smell out although you might eventually get used to the new smell instilled by the mixture of Fabreeze, Ozoone stuff, etc. Odd smell. If you've not smelled it, go to any used car dealership and sit in a few cars (take a barf bag).
Reminds me of when I was a kid in Morristown, Tennessee, our family had a tobacco patch. My brother and I used to Pi$$ on the tobacco plants and say "I wonder who'll smoke THAT one?" Never thought the smell might end up in a car I might buy someday.
Harvey
Reminds me of when I was a kid in Morristown, Tennessee, our family had a tobacco patch. My brother and I used to Pi$$ on the tobacco plants and say "I wonder who'll smoke THAT one?" Never thought the smell might end up in a car I might buy someday.
Harvey
