How to Remove Odors from Your Car - University of Haifa



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How to Remove Odors from Your Car

Removing stale cigarette and other odors from the uphostery and carpet in your car is one thing. However, smoke fumes that get sucked into the air conditioning ducts and heater system, make odor elimination nearly impossible. Since the AC/HEATER systems are buried deep under the dashboard, it is very difficult and expensive to remove these components just to clean them. Not to worry, though! There is an alternative.

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1. Clean your car as thoroughly as possible.

2. Get out any trash and items inside your car. Clear it completely out, making sure to check under the seats.

3. Wipe the car inside with cleaning product. Vacuum the rug and upholstery inside the car.

4. Shampoo the inside of the car. Open the windows to air out the vehicle.

5. If the odor is due to mildewing water leaks, then you may not be able to get out that funky smell until you can stop the rain water from coming in.

6. Spray carpet with Lysol for mildew.

7. Armed with a spray bottle of a quality odor neutralizer, begin by opening the hood of your car in a well ventilated (preferably outdoor) location.

8. Start the engine and set the parking brake for safety. Next, place the AC and FAN on full. Important: make sure the "fresh air/recirculate" setting is in the FRESH AIR (outside air) position.

9. Go to the front fender side of the car (usually the passenger side) and look in the engine compartment and find the ac/heater AIR INTAKE, sometimes called the cowl vent. Different vehicles use different air intake vent configurations but all are just below the bottom edge of the windsheild, normally on the passengers side, and all have some sort of screen, grid or louvers covering the intake.

10. Liberally spray the deodorizer directly into the intake screen.

11. After a few sprays, get back in the car and smell to determine if the deodorizer is circulating through the AC system. Repeat if necessary. This application should treat the air conditioning EVAPORATOR, BLOWER and DUCTING..the places where smoke and odor particles will collect.

12. Now, switch the AC/Heater control to FULL HEAT, leaving the engine run, the air control in "fresh air" position and the FAN on full.

13. Go back outside the car and repeat the spray treatments into the air intake as you did in step 4.

14. By switching to the HEAT position, the deodorizer is now treating the HEATER CORE, BLOWER and DUCTING..another place that odors will hide.

15. Repeat spraying if necessary.

[edit] Tips

• HINT: If you're having trouble locating the air intake screen, shut off the engine and place the key in "RUN" position. Check to make sure the AC fan is still running. Go to the front side of the car, usually the passenger side, and listen for the movement of air and the blower running. After spraying and treating both the AC and HEATER, shut off the engine, close the hood and let the car sit undisturbed for a couple of hours. This will allow the deodorizer to "work" on the odor.

• Don't use Oust in large quanities or it will pool somewhere in the vent system and leave a bad smell over night when you turn on the air/heat/vent the next day. Use Lysol (the old-fashion kind) to kill off that smell.

[edit] Warnings

• Caution: Many AC/HEATER systems use vacuum to operate, and the running engine is the provider of the vacuum. There is an inherent danger of injury when working under the hood with the engine running. Never perform this procedure with children nearby. If you do not feel comfortable doing this procedure, take your car to a mechanic or repair shop. They should charge you very little (if anything) for squeezing the spray bottle a few times!

Cleaning Cigarette Smoke Residue from Walls

Cleaning a smoker’s house is a nightmare, brown and yellow stains will be on everything from the windows to that intricate crown molding. Unless you’re willing to hire somebody else for the task, get ready for a lot of work.

• Vinegar

Next to Italian salad dressings, this may be vinegar’s most important job. Even if you are going to paint the walls, you still need to clean them first. In a large bowl or bucket mix one cup of white vinegar for every two cups of warm water, then add a scoop of baking soda – it should fizz. Use a sponge mop or brush to wash down your walls and ceilings with it. This solution will make residue much easier to remove and should be easy on your paint too. Follow this up with a vinegar based window washer for windows (can be found in organic grocery stores), and your basic bubbly vinegar/baking soda mix on the window moldings.

• Paint

If you’re still not happy with the result, you can attempt the last step again, or just repaint your walls.

Removing Cigarette Smoke Smell from your Car

• Good old Vinegar

The same mixture of vinegar and baking soda that you used on the walls inside the house can work on the interior of the car (one cup of white vinegar for every two cups of warm water along with a good scoop of baking soda). Wash down the windows, plastic moldings, and metals with a generous amount on a sponge. Don’t use this on fabric, however. Treat fabric as you would carpet inside – saturate it with baking soda, spray with a diluted solution of essential oil and water (optional), let sit overnight, and vacuum.

• Cigarette Smoke Smell Home Remedies:

There are almost as many cigarette smell removal remedies as there are people. Some of the ideas appear to mask the smell with another more powerful odor rather than to remove, so be sure you are going to be happy with the result. Here are some of them:

• Fill a tub with vinegar and place it on the floor in the front seat, close the windows, open the floor vents and turn on the heat full blast. Let the car run in this state for an hour before removing the tub. Another version of this remedy requires hot summer weather and allowing the tub sit on the floor with the windows closed all day.

• Leave an opened bag of charcoal in the car overnight.

• Put a few drops of vanilla extract on a rag and toss it under the seat.

• Put a sliced apple in a cup and set it on the floor. Leave it until it shrivels.

• Sprinkle dry coffee grounds on the floor of the car, let them sit there for a few days and vacuum them up.

• Mix of apple sauce and cinnamon and put it into a jar with holes punched in the lid. Place the jar on the floor of the car.

Which ever method you try, be prepared for several re-applications. You are going to most likely need them. If you have any tips to make this easier, please share them with the rest of us using the form below. Good luck!

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Tobacco odors can make a car smell like an ash tray. Here is how to get rid of that stench.

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1. Clean your mats with a carpet cleaner and vacuum them. Even if you can't clean them at least vacuum them. This alone may help the smell.

2. Spray fabric refresher on all car fabrics. If you can, get an antibacterial one, as these tend to work better with all smells. Spray on seats, floor mats and even seat belts. Dryer sheets, such as Bounce or Downy, also work to keep a car smelling fresh. Just place several sheets or a small, opened box of dryer sheets someplace in the car. When exposed to heat from the sun, the dryer sheets will release a fresh scent. A box of dryer sheets will freshen your car for a long time and will be less expensive than buying numerous "car fresheners" with artificial smells.

3. Regularly clean out the car's ashtray. After cleaning it out, spray some ordinary air freshener into it out rub around with an absorbent kitchen paper. This will leave a thin layer of the air freshener in the ash tray. It's not enough for it to be flammable but enough to have a pleasant scent.

4. Always have a hanging car freshener or one of those fan ones that clip onto the car's air vents.

5. If the odor is particularly pervasive, consider spraying a highly diluted cleaner (Lysol, very low concentration bleach water, etc) through the heater ducts. Do this by finding the air intake (typically under the hood right close to the windshield) and, with the fan on in the car, spray with a water bottle. This will clean out some odor that's stagnated inside the ducts.

6. Check the cars air filter in the heating and A/C system it will absorb all smells that are in the car including smoke.

7. Wipe the interior of the car, including the glass (smoke creates a haze on glass), with vinegar and water. You can also mist the cloth interior with the vinegar-water mixture. To make the mixture combine 1/4 cup of vinegar (white not cider) with 2 cups of water. Pour into your sprayer and shake.

[edit] Tips

• Don't use too strong a cleaner or you could ruin your upholstery or dash

• Test all cleaners in an inconspicuous place first.

• Another good aid is: 1. cut an apple into quarters and put toothpicks around the sides so each quarter can rest in a cup of water. 2. Put the apple quarters in strategic places of the car and leave them during the day or over night. (It works best with the windows down during the day). 3.It may take a week of repeating the procedure, in this case repeat steps one and two for a week.

[edit] Things You'll Need

• Carpet Cleaner

• Air Freshener

• Paper Kitchen Towels

• Fabric Refresher

• Vacuum

• In-car Air Freshener

• Spray Bottle

• Cleaner

• White Vinegar

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