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How to get rid of interior cigarette smoke smell?
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<blockquote data-quote="CV355" data-source="post: 16197497" data-attributes="member: 181885"><p>Cat Piss? Enzymatic cleaner, a portable extractor, and a few sessions of scent-bombing the car, and you can't tell. But you know. Oh, do you know.</p><p></p><p>This past Fall, my neighbor's car decided to jump up and piss down into my sunroof gutter. Just so happens that the hurricane that passed through dumped enough water, and my gutter drain tube was clogged, that it backed up and popped the tube out in the car. So, when that mangy cat pissed, it went RIGHT down behind the console in my Volvo. I had to damn near tear the car apart and wash everything by hand. I confronted the neighbor, who said "it can't be my cat" even though I had pictures. Sucks, the neighbors are <u>super</u> nice people, I just hate their cat.</p><p></p><p>Anywho, cigarette smoke is another problem entirely. Unlike cat piss, it gets UP into things (unless you shake the cat, then it goes everywhere too). There are commercial products that claim they remove the smell, but we all know it doesn't work like a magic bullet. The only thing that I have ever witnessed as working for smoke is manually tearing down the interior and steam-cleaning everything, followed by an ozone generator.</p><p></p><p>The problem with "absorbers" is that they do not address the root cause of the problem. If there's nicotine and tar built up in nooks and crannies in the headliner, an absorber on the floor isn't going to clean that buttsludge out. </p><p></p><p>One of the work trucks I used to have to use was referred to as a "rolling ash tray." Most of the guys that put the 250k miles on a 4 year old truck were heavy chain-smokers. It was so nasty, all of the windows had a yellow tint that you could scrape up with your fingernail. It followed the "Subway Rule": Spend 15 seconds in there, and you smell like it. The company retired the nastiest trucks to "service only," so no customers, Thank God. They got a new F150 and established a "no smoking" rule. Ha. That didn't work. The truck stunk within 3 months. The general manager went to use it one day, and he was disgusted. He sent it to a local detailer who did just as I described. I put around 4000 miles on that truck over the next few years and never noticed a cigarette smell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CV355, post: 16197497, member: 181885"] Cat Piss? Enzymatic cleaner, a portable extractor, and a few sessions of scent-bombing the car, and you can't tell. But you know. Oh, do you know. This past Fall, my neighbor's car decided to jump up and piss down into my sunroof gutter. Just so happens that the hurricane that passed through dumped enough water, and my gutter drain tube was clogged, that it backed up and popped the tube out in the car. So, when that mangy cat pissed, it went RIGHT down behind the console in my Volvo. I had to damn near tear the car apart and wash everything by hand. I confronted the neighbor, who said "it can't be my cat" even though I had pictures. Sucks, the neighbors are [U]super[/U] nice people, I just hate their cat. Anywho, cigarette smoke is another problem entirely. Unlike cat piss, it gets UP into things (unless you shake the cat, then it goes everywhere too). There are commercial products that claim they remove the smell, but we all know it doesn't work like a magic bullet. The only thing that I have ever witnessed as working for smoke is manually tearing down the interior and steam-cleaning everything, followed by an ozone generator. The problem with "absorbers" is that they do not address the root cause of the problem. If there's nicotine and tar built up in nooks and crannies in the headliner, an absorber on the floor isn't going to clean that buttsludge out. One of the work trucks I used to have to use was referred to as a "rolling ash tray." Most of the guys that put the 250k miles on a 4 year old truck were heavy chain-smokers. It was so nasty, all of the windows had a yellow tint that you could scrape up with your fingernail. It followed the "Subway Rule": Spend 15 seconds in there, and you smell like it. The company retired the nastiest trucks to "service only," so no customers, Thank God. They got a new F150 and established a "no smoking" rule. Ha. That didn't work. The truck stunk within 3 months. The general manager went to use it one day, and he was disgusted. He sent it to a local detailer who did just as I described. I put around 4000 miles on that truck over the next few years and never noticed a cigarette smell. [/QUOTE]
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