Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: [1] 2

Author Topic: Getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of a car?  (Read 3929 times)

Jacob/Lee

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of a car?
« on: May 17, 2014, 03:43:28 pm »
I found Ford Mustang I wanted to buy (40th Anniversary GT edition, convertible). The car itself is in pretty good shape and the price is fair, but there's just one catch: It reeks of cigarette smoke. Christ on a bike! I could smell it clearly even when I had my face to the driver's side window. Anyway, I was wondering if anybody had some tips on permanently clearing the smell out instead of just masking it with Febreeze or whatever. Short-term use of air fresheners to clear it out is okay, but they tend to give me a headache over longer periods of time. I'd be willing to try anything as long as it doesn't permanently damage the car.

Thanks in advance.
Logged

martinuzz

  • Bay Watcher
  • High dwarf
    • View Profile
Re: Getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of a car?
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2014, 05:00:29 pm »
Burn a good strong incense in it for a while. Not just one stick. Soon, your car will no longer smell of cigarette smoke, but rather of an incense fragrance of your choosing.

Fight fire with fire!
Logged
Friendly and polite reminder for optimists: Hope is a finite resource

We can ­disagree and still love each other, ­unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist - James Baldwin

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=73719.msg1830479#msg1830479

weenog

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of a car?
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2014, 02:50:56 am »
I would try a heavy duty carpet deodorizer and thorough vacuuming on the carpets, and changing out (or at least laundering) the seat covers, if any.  An open box of baking soda can gradually absorb some foul odors, and airing out the vehicle any time you can should help as well.
Logged
Listen up: making a thing a ‼thing‼ doesn't make it more awesome or extreme.  It simply indicates the thing is on fire.  Get it right or look like a silly poser.

It's useful to keep a ‼torch‼ handy.

DJ

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of a car?
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2014, 03:45:20 am »
If it's really bad, you may need to reupholster it.
Logged
Quote from: Sunken on May 19, 2009, 12:51:32 pm
Quote from: Muz on May 19, 2009, 08:37:52 am
Urist, President has immigrated to your fortress!
Urist, President mandates the Dwarven Bill of Rights.

Cue magma.
Ah, the Magma Carta...

Neonivek

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of a car?
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2014, 06:48:10 am »
Yeah the major problem with cigarette smoke is it has a large tendency to just bond with all the fabric in the vehicle... and even the non-fabric (the roof, the plastic, EVERYTHING!)

"I" honestly don't think there is anything you can do.
Logged

nenjin

  • Bay Watcher
  • Inscrubtable Exhortations of the Soul
    • View Profile
Re: Getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of a car?
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2014, 09:40:59 am »
Steam clean the upholstery, set an open box of baking soda in the car. Empty the box out into a Tupperware container so you increase the surface contact with the air. Leave it for about a week with the windows rolled up.

Won't get rid of it entirely, but should do quite a bit.
Logged
Cautivo del Milagro seamos, Penitente.
Quote from: Viktor Frankl
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Quote from: Sindain
Its kinda silly to complain that a friendly NPC isn't a well designed boss fight.
Quote from: Eric Blank
How will I cheese now assholes?
Quote from: MrRoboto75
Always spaghetti, never forghetti

XXSockXX

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of a car?
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2014, 05:06:02 pm »
Quote from: Neonivek on May 18, 2014, 06:48:10 am
Yeah the major problem with cigarette smoke is it has a large tendency to just bond with all the fabric in the vehicle... and even the non-fabric (the roof, the plastic, EVERYTHING!)
Yeah, as a smoker who has lived his entire life in smoking households, I can confirm that the smoke has a weird habit to bond with everything, especially some kinds of plastic. It seems to be chemical bonding, since you can't wash it off anymore after a while. So if the owner smoked heavily over a longer period of time in the car, you might never get entirely rid of the smell.
Logged

Muz

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of a car?
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2014, 10:36:27 am »
Febreeze is actually supposed to destroy smells, not mask it. They fucked up marketing big time so nobody realizes this. But no idea how to get it into airconditioning vents.

My father was a heavy smoker and he had some kind of car perfume that was designed for anti-tobacco. It seemed to work.
Logged
Disclaimer: Any sarcasm in my posts will not be mentioned as that would ruin the purpose. It is assumed that the reader is intelligent enough to tell the difference between what is sarcasm and what is not.

Trapezohedron

  • Bay Watcher
  • No longer exists here.
    • View Profile
Re: Getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of a car?
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2014, 11:02:28 am »
Quote from: XXSockXX on May 19, 2014, 05:06:02 pm
Quote from: Neonivek on May 18, 2014, 06:48:10 am
Yeah the major problem with cigarette smoke is it has a large tendency to just bond with all the fabric in the vehicle... and even the non-fabric (the roof, the plastic, EVERYTHING!)
Yeah, as a smoker who has lived his entire life in smoking households, I can confirm that the smoke has a weird habit to bond with everything, especially some kinds of plastic. It seems to be chemical bonding, since you can't wash it off anymore after a while. So if the owner smoked heavily over a longer period of time in the car, you might never get entirely rid of the smell.

Considering people also smoke certain meats with certain types of smoked wood, I do believe that smoke does indeed have a habit of chemically bonding with whatever shit is in contact with it.
Logged
Thank you for all the fish. It was a good run.

JuanCarr

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of a car?
« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2014, 02:42:54 pm »
Watch Pulp Fiction?
Logged

Funk

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of a car?
« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2014, 04:14:13 am »
Clean every thing in side the car, seat, door trim, roof lineing, carpets everything and probably more than once.
If you can find one of thouse cheapo hand car washes let them do the first one, the inside will be filthily.
Get a lot of air feshners and get used to driving around with the windows down.

Now the car clean don't eat in it and a quick clean the inside every month will keep it from smelling.
Logged
Agree, plus that's about the LAST thing *I* want to see from this kind of game - author spending valuable development time on useless graphics.

Unofficial slogan of Bay 12 Games.  

Death to the false emperor a warhammer40k SG

GavJ

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of a car?
« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2014, 04:32:25 am »
Quote from: JuanCarr on May 21, 2014, 02:42:54 pm
Watch Pulp Fiction?
So... you're suggesting he get smoke smell out of the car by trash compacting the entire car into a small cube?

I mean, I guess that's one way.
Logged
Cauliflower Labs – Geologically realistic world generator devblog

Dwarf fortress in 50 words: You start with seven alcoholic, manic-depressive dwarves. You build a fortress in the wilderness where EVERYTHING tries to kill you, including your own dwarves. Usually, your chief imports are immigrants, beer, and optimism. Your chief exports are misery, limestone violins, forest fires, elf tallow soap, and carved kitten bone.

Zrk2

  • Bay Watcher
  • Emperor of the Damned
    • View Profile
Re: Getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of a car?
« Reply #12 on: May 22, 2014, 08:43:41 am »
One thing everyone's failed to suggest so far; take up smoking.

I kid. Your best bet is reupholstering the seats. Actually not that hard to do, if you know what you're doing.

Source: I build Camaro seats.
Logged
Quote from: PTTG?? on May 24, 2012, 12:34:25 pm
He's just keeping up with the Cardassians.

pisskop

  • Bay Watcher
  • Too old and stubborn to get a new avatar
    • View Profile
Re: Getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of a car?
« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2014, 08:45:19 am »
Quote from: Zrk2 on May 22, 2014, 08:43:41 am
I kid. Your best bet is reupholstering the seats.
This.
Logged
Pisskop's Reblancing Mod - A C:DDA Mod to make life a little (lot) more brutal!
drealmerz7 - pk was supreme pick for traitor too I think, and because of how it all is and pk is he is just feeding into the trollfucking so well.
PKs DF Mod!

acetech09

  • Bay Watcher
  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of a car?
« Reply #14 on: May 22, 2014, 10:47:15 am »
The seats are a good idea but there will be just as much, if not more, smoke in the headliner and the foam insulation above it, plus in the dash and all that.

Getting rid of the smoke is theoretically possible but it will require quite a bit of elbow grease on your part. It involves replacing all the fabrics, removing cleaning most of the plastics with some light/medium solvent, etc. Also, it's a good idea to run some cleaner through the A/C ducts. I've done it before, and it wasn't fun. Was worth it in the end, though.

First step is to lay down large cookie sheets of baking soda in the front and back seat, and leaving it closed for a while. See how that works.
Logged
I challenge you to a game of 'Hide the Sausage', to the death.
Pages: [1] 2
« previous next »