Old Car Smell-How to get rid of

[V6Turbo]

Original Owner smoked or my GN just has that old car smell. Especially when it has been sitting in the sun the whole morning.

Has anybody ever gotten rid of that smell?

 

[MotorCityBuick]

Maybe try putting in new carpet. That should overcome the smell mostly. Clean the He!! out of the rest of the fabric & vinyl. Maybe put in a new headliner. And then your car will smell like a new car...maybe.

 

[SinistrV6]

Febreeze!!!

 

[jhef83]

The oldest smelling car I ever had was a 64 mercury marauder. I miss that smell.

 

[phillyturbosix]

Febreeze!!!

What he said! My car had some weird smells going on.. I FeBreezed the hell out of it for about 6 months and it went away. Now it has some other smell but I like it better

 

[SPOOLN]

Take the entire interior out and clean all the plastic. Take the seats out and apart and wash in woolite. Wash sponge rubber as well. Vacuum and then hose down the carpet with woolite as well. Woolite foams up better then carpet cleaner and leaves a really clean smell. I owned a smokers Gn and doing that made it smell better. It was worth the work. I did sell it after owning it for 5 years though. To guess who ? A smoker!

 

[SPOOLN]

Take the entire interior out and clean all the plastic. Take the seats out and apart and wash in woolite. Wash sponge rubber as well. Vacuum and then hose down the carpet with woolite as well. Woolite foams up better then carpet cleaner and leaves a really clean smell. I owned a smokers Gn and doing that made it smell better. It was worth the work. I did sell it after owning it for 5 years though. To guess who ? A smoker!

 

[cwelk87gn]

The oldest smelling car I ever had was a 64 mercury marauder. I miss that smell.

I'm with you! I think thats a part of my GN I love. Mines never been smoked in, but it smells like a clean almost 20 year old car. It has a charming quality, almost like puppy breath or a nice old scotch. Maybe the previous owner was an alcoholic Labrador or something :biggrin:

 

[BOOSTEDGNs]

Febreeze!!!

same here

Alan

 

[Tin Man]

When I bought my GN, the owner (old man) left a bag of ant killer in the trunk. I could barely ride in the car. I sprinkled a ton of baking soda in the carpet and put pans of charcoal inside to absorb the odor. After a few days, I shampoed the carpet and followed up with a healthy dose of febreeze. In over 2 years (with no followup) there has been no bad smells whatsoever.

 

[88ZNX]

try these

Try putting a few paper plates down in each floor board and put baking soda on one and coffee beans on the other. leave them in there for a few days. And use the fabreeze. That should take 95ish % out. hope that helps

 

[JOHNDEEREGN]

There

is aproduct called "pure air" takes it ALL out,,if ya need some my dads wholesale farm supply business sells it. Works great in old combines and tractors,,should work everywhere else also :biggrin:

 

[Welby]

My Limited smelled like musty books and old lady when I bought it... It either went away, or I just got used to it

 

[750H.P.V6]

I bought another car. Fixed the problem nicely. Seriously though, I think Febreeze is your best bet. You might want to change out the headliner also since a lot of the smoke gets trapped in there.

Neal

Original Owner smoked or my GN just has that old car smell. Especially when it has been sitting in the sun the whole morning.

Has anybody ever gotten rid of that smell?

 

[turbojimmy]

Febreeze works really well. Just spray it on every week or so until the smell goes away.

My daily driver is a flood total '01 Cadillac DTS. There's about 20-cows worth of leather in the thing, plus carpet with 4" thick foam attached to it. The car was TOTALLY submerged. Talk about funky smells.....

It was extreme, but I dismantled the entire inside of the car (pics here: http://www.turbojimmy.com/dts/dts.html). I cleaned every interior part with Simple Green and a detailing brush. I peeled the leather off the seat foam and the seat foam off the frames. Soaked the foam in Simple Green and washed the leather with a leather cleaner (Lexol). I sprayed everything with Microban (anti-bacterial, fungicide, mildicide - bubble gum flavor) before I put it back together.

I used carpet shampoo and Febreeze on the carpets.

Parts that I could not thoroughly clean (like the insides of the HVAC system) were replaced.

I put it back together and it smells fine except for.....cigar smoke. It's subtle but there. Can you f'n believe it? The original owner was a heavy cigar smoker. The cigar smoke smell outlived the swamp-water smell. I think it will dissipate over time, but it does suck. I use Febreeze and shampoo on the carpets and Lexol on the leather once a month. It's slowly going away.

Jim