[Paintguy]

Well it's only been a week since I gave up the filthy habit and moved on to e-cigs but already all I can smell is stale *** smoke My cars interior absolutely reeks. Who'd have thought the odd *** with the window open could make it smell so bad!

Anyway, I tried washing as much of the interior as possible last Sunday, with G101 over the leather seats, carpets, headlining, plastics etc but the smell still remains. Is it just a case of keeping on going? Wash everything down regularly and hope that the smell will subside eventually?

Unfortunately I no longer have an extraction machine so can't afford to get anything too wet, but if it lingers for too much longer I might have to strip out the interior, give it all a good scrub & jetwash, then dry them off at work in the paint booth!

Any tips or magical products you can suggest? I'm spraying daily with febreeze and AG Autofresh, but I think the smell is too ingrained for that to help much, it's just masking it temporarily.

Cheers

 

[Natalie]

You could try putting some tubs of bicarbonate of soda in it, also sprinkle it on the carpets and seats and leave for a day then hoover it up, it absorbs odours.

 

[bobbyjoeufb]

Use a deorderisor fogger you can buy a single use one. Stick in in car let it fill up with fog and leave for at least 30 mins

Also if your car has ac stick that on with the recurictly button pressed to deodoriser the whole air con system.

Should get rid off the smell.

 

[S40]

No, no, no, no!

All you need is to leave about a tuppawares full of charcoal under the passengers seat for about a week and you'll notice that all of the smells have gone.

Simples.

 

[DJ X-Ray]

Do what Natalie said. You can even mix some with water and wipe/scrub everything down with it and rinse away.

 

[Paintguy]

Cheers all.

I don't have any charcoal to hand but I'm sure there'll be some bicarb in the kitchen somewhere.

 

[STUOOBY]

all i do is clean pretty much everything with g101 and a few clothes. then go over everything with the steam cleaner including the air vents for a while. then do again if need be. but ive never had a problem with smoke as a few of the cars i do are big smokers with *** ash every where and the leather seats , doors, sun visors sticky as hell from the ****.

 

[woodys]

Cheers all.

I don't have any charcoal to hand but I'm sure there'll be some bicarb in the kitchen somewhere.

Not even BBQ bricks left over from summer?

 

[Paintguy]

Not even BBQ bricks left over from summer?

I don't do bbq

 

[mattykhz]

I used fabreeze on the fabric and neutraair type air fresheners.

 

[iamryan]

As a smoker myself (giving up in the new year after cutting down a fair bit) I am tempted to try the kleers product that you press and leave in your car for 30 minutes while having the vents on recirculate.. Failing that then I'll be using charcoal as I have heard that works

 

[deano93tid]

You could always go back to the real thing

Well done, I would like to give up in the new year some time.

 

[Samba1360]

Don't forget your seatbelt and inside the B post as that is where a lot of the smell will be due to driving with the window open and causing it to blow into there.
P.S. filthy habit.

 

[Melkor]

After thorough cleaning we used a dakota odour bomb I'm a friends pickup that was mingin, he smoked at least 60 a day, he has also packed it in and has the ecig.

 

[Paintguy]

Well I haven't picked a real cig up for nearly a month now, not bad going for me!

I haven't had time (or the weather!) to give the interior another clean but the bicarb seems to be working. I sprinkled it around and left it for a week, vacuumed out and repeated. Slowly it's getting there and I think a decent air freshener would mask what smell is left.

 

[IIGAZI360II]

I had a similar thing when I bought a 2nd hand car, I'm not a smoker myself so noticed it straight away and was determined to get rid of the smell.

From having tried all sorts of different products I found G101 along with Bio-Brisk a good combo. Also Valet Pro Enzyme Odour Eater did a great job, and smells lemon fresh.

If it still won't go after that, I'd suggest one of those Odour Rescue kits from i4detailing. You'll get a really strong smell of chlorine for a few days, but it's definitely worth it