removing nasty smell in cab
04-28-2014, 03:03 PM
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if you have one of those ozone generators (some house air purifiers have them) they work amazingly to remove smells in cars... my dad has a cheap one and throws it in car's he takes in on trade to remove smells. i can't even tell if a car was owned by a smoker or not after he does it. that's after it's vacuumed and carpet cleaned, but that doesn't normally get rid of a smoke smell on it's own
04-28-2014, 03:17 PM
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the window down thing helps and i think some people that keep their ash tray clean and never put butts in them helps, but as a non-smoker, i can pretty much always tell if a car was owned by a smoker. my dad just plugs it in over night when they leave for the night and I think there is actually a cleaning action from the ozone (O3) and not just a masking from it. (o3 doesn't have a smell anyways) i worked at a sewage treatment plant and we "cleaned" the water with huge compressors pumping air through the lagoons... and when the dissolved oxygen got high enough, we could spray it over the spray fields... and i know they have oxygenated pools that don't use chlorine.
04-28-2014, 04:06 PM
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I think there is a cabin vent under the drivers seat. If it got down in there you're gonna have your work cut out. When my truck gets that stagnant/stale air smell in the winter months from lack of fresh air, I like placing a slightly opened back of pipe tobacco under the seat. Cherry/black cherry have nice aromas.
04-28-2014, 04:47 PM
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I think there is a cabin vent under the drivers seat. If it got down in there you're gonna have your work cut out. When my truck gets that stagnant/stale air smell in the winter months from lack of fresh air, I like placing a slightly opened back of pipe tobacco under the seat. Cherry/black cherry have nice aromas.
04-28-2014, 06:09 PM
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I had a buddy projectile vomit onto my windshield once. It ran down into the defroster vents. That was the last time i was a DD for anyone. Anyway, he had a nice long weekend of removing the dash and cleaning everything that could be cleaned using qtips when necessary. I sat in a lawn chair and drank a case of beer while I supervised.
04-28-2014, 08:24 PM
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I had a buddy projectile vomit onto my windshield once. It ran down into the defroster vents. That was the last time i was a DD for anyone. Anyway, he had a nice long weekend of removing the dash and cleaning everything that could be cleaned using qtips when necessary. I sat in a lawn chair and drank a case of beer while I supervised.
04-29-2014, 11:55 AM
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Thank you everyone for the help! Smells way better! I removed the seat and cleaned underneath the carpet and the carpet it self should have done a before and after pic. You can't kinda tell but where the seat mounts on the right was all brown all the way to the front and in the vent. Think there is some in there cuz when I run the AC you can kind of smell it.
