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06-27-2007, 09:55 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Out of my mind!!
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|  Funky Car Smell-Please help
Does anyone know of something that will get rid of a nasty car-smell? I would like something permanent (unlike an air freshener). I got a steal on a 626, and I would like to keep it, sans the smell!
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06-27-2007, 09:59 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the basement
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Fart in it with the windows up.
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06-27-2007, 09:59 PM
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| owner, Holmes Hobbies LLC   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Volt up! Gear down!
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Ozone machine and lots of active bacteria cleaners. What is the smell?
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06-27-2007, 10:00 PM
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| Rock Crawler   Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Alabama
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Take it and have the carpet shampooed and that will do the trick or just put alot of air freshners in there and your good. Light a Ciggerate in there and leave it in the ash try and your good.
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06-27-2007, 10:01 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: May 2006 Location: Aroostook county
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spray fabreze EVERYWHERE! soak the seats and headliner, and mist the dash etc
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06-27-2007, 10:03 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sawyer
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Yuck! Try some fabreze, it actually eats the bad smell up instead of just covering it up. If that doesn't work, Ozium will cover just about anything up (you can get Ozium at auto zone). If that doesn't work, try a little vinegar mixed with water, it's a natural deodorizer (test it on fabric first, just incase it stains). Hope this helps! | |
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06-27-2007, 10:03 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Alabama
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06-27-2007, 10:03 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Out of my mind!!
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It's like a mix between humidity, and old/musky. It's a 2000, so I don't think that a car would normally get that stinky that soon. What is that product that you mentioned and where can I get it? Active bacteria? I'm not sure how to get those guys going, either. As far as the sitting and farting-that didn't work:-(. The stink overpowered the fart, and that was after I ate some bad cornbread!  |
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06-27-2007, 10:06 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: May 2006 Location: California
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Maybe you got a mythbusters car. Like when they stuck the dead pig in the corvette for a month or something and sold it.
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06-27-2007, 10:06 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Here
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Maybe it has been in a flood if it smells like you described
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06-27-2007, 10:07 PM
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| 06 Super National Champ  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Stark Industries Bar and Grill
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Hrrm...water damage? | |
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06-27-2007, 10:10 PM
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| owner, Holmes Hobbies LLC Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Volt up! Gear down!
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Fabreze is the easiest to get ahold of, it is an enzyme cleanser. Sounds like the car had the windows down when it rained, and then the windows up when it was sunny the next day.
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06-27-2007, 10:10 PM
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| MWRCA'er  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Machesney Park IL
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Take the seats out and preasure wash them. So will be amazed at the years of coke spills and stuff running down the driveway. Other then that roll the windows down, and get some miles under it and it will go away.
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06-27-2007, 10:16 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Out of my mind!!
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Oh, enzyme, now I see! I'll start by getting them shampooed, then the febreeze, then the vinegar/water, if the febreeze doesn't work-I think it will. Thanks a whole bunch, guys. It's great to see people offering ideas and solutions. What happened to all the hardheads around here? Did they all get run off? JRH, how is your elec. biz going? She doesn't smell like bacon, so I don't think it got the Mythbusters treatment.
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06-27-2007, 10:28 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Alabama
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Just let us know how it turns out.
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06-27-2007, 10:33 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: We-Go, Chi-Town, Ill
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You could always pull the carpet and herculine it:grin:
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06-27-2007, 10:51 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Columbia Gorge
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I sell this stuff at work and it seems to work wonders.... http://www.meguiars.com/?car-odor-el...dor-Eliminator My TJ smells like my dog and spilled Rockstars. |
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06-27-2007, 11:05 PM
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| I joined the Band! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: I Hate People
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Shampoo the seats and carpet, then spray Oust everywhere in the car until there's a fog of Oust in the entire car...Then, close the doors and windows, and leave it alone for a few days. I did this to my truck (the previous owner smoked, and then the car dealer used a smelly cleaner to get rid of the smoke smell), and, it doesn't take the smell away completely (might have to repeat it a few times), but I would have to say that it was a 99% improvement.  |
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06-28-2007, 06:38 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: .
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take the dead rat out, DUH!. lol
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06-28-2007, 07:25 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Vegas
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I have an ionizer for my house that works awesome. It has a mode that you can put it in a car or room and run it for a 2 hour cycle. I have used it to air out the car a few times and it works awesome.
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