stale cigarette smell

[MRK25T]

Every time I have my car closed for a couple of hours or more I get a nose full of stale cigarette smell.

Being a non-smoker and astmatic it isn't the nices greeting I could get every time I open the car door.

Installing my headunit about a month ago I took off the gear boot and other bits and pieces around that area and vacumed up a substancial amount of cigarette ash.

Unfortunatly the car still stinks.

Is there any way I can get rid of this smell, or should I give up and buy one of those air freshners and stick it on the air vent?

I know jimX has raised this question in another thread in november last year about cleaning out the air conditioning or something but he got no useful answers.

Thanks for any advice,

Mark

[benm]

Go and buy a bottle of spray and keep it on the glovebox. I give 2 squirts every couple of days (the spray that is) just to keep it fresh. Almost every single person i know that has been in my car or sat in it comments on the smell (the flavour is vanilla and cost me about $5 12mths or more ago).

Thanks heaps to Mat the previous owner for keeping my car in A1 condition its really appreciated.

[JimX]

Haha, this is funny. I was just about to write up another thread about the aircon system but I may as well just reply here.

Firstly, buy yourself a can of air conditioning cleaner from a Nissan dealer or something. Mine cost me $30.

But now here's my question - Where are the air conditioning intakes? Is it beneath the plastic mesh under the windscreen wipers? The reason I ask is because you have to spray the whole can in there.

I'll let you know how mine goes after I figure out where to spray the contents of my can

[Pva_Glue]

I suggest do professional cleaning!

think what's your health worth to you? eh?

cheers

Joe

[JimX]

It's worth $30 to me

[Guest Boxhead]

lol...

a little off topic, but not to much, i play ice hockey and the gear gets very very sweaty and stinky, basicaly every couple of weeks i use FEBREEZE on it, and it seems to work for a week..

so thats my suggestion.. try spraying febreeze on the seats and carpet etc, also clean your air con, coz that will stop the smell being re applied to your fabirc inside the car

[hitnrun]

Pull your gearknob off, remove the dash (do a search for explicit instructions) remove your stereo and any guages you have mounted in the dash.

I would thoroughly clean all the plastic vents and passages with a damp cloth, then spray with a eucalyptus (sp?) oil/water mixture (being ashmatic you may know all about inhaling eucalyptus vapours etc). This kind of mixture will help you clean grime off and will not only mask the smell of smoke, but also get rid of it. If you spray freshener everywhere, chances are it will f**k with you even worse then just the smoke). With the dash off you should be able to get a fair amount of it clean. Also get rid of ALL dust you can get the vac to.

Remove all the matts, vacum them. Then vacum car.

Once this is done I would bust out the Britex from Woolworths (Safeway). Usually around $25 for a night. This does wonders for your car. Just use cheap wool wash don't buy the Britex detegent crap.

Now cut sick on you car with the Britex. Change the water often. Don't forget the roof, back seats, the back of the front seats, the matts you vacumed etc. If you are getting a bad smell, I would let it air overnight, then do it again in the morning.

Not only will you get rid of +90% of the smell, you're fabric will looks outstanding and it will feel a lot nicer. This also has been known to generate around 15nose kw, so watch out for the extra power.

Also with cleaning out the aircon, once you remove your dash, you should be able to work out which vent to spray that can into.

Just remember that you need to take it nice and slow, do it right the first time so you don't need to get the britex out again.

[predator]

Try and leave the windows open for a bit one day if u can - that makes a big difference..then put in an airfreshener thingo or now then i've just got out a standard household airspray. That stuff is stronger than any car stuff and will kill the smell. Although then again u won't smell anything else but the spray so make sure u like it!!

U could also shampoo the seats, maybe the cigarette smell is embedded in there. Otherwise just take it to some place and pay $120 or so and they'll fully detail it inside and out and make it smell like new.

[46n2]

Originally posted by Boxhead

basicaly every couple of weeks i use FEBREEZE on it

FEBREEZE!!!!