Vehicle Interior Odors
yonson
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I have been watching a new tv series called Dirty Old Cars (History channel) where professional auto detailers are faced with the task of cleaning vehicles, inside and out, that have been badly neglected and in some cases left in the woods for years. They have some interesting ways of eliminating interior odors that remain even after serious cleaning. One is a chlorine oxide bomb - the brand I saw used is called Odor Goblin and utilizes some strong chemicals, online price is around $35. Another is an ozone generator - saw them online for about 90 bucks. The third method is pretty slick: take the peel off a lemon or two (including the white part) and place the pieces around the interior. My wife, an odor nazi, had a run-in with mice getting into the cab of her truck this past winter. She was going to use an Odor Goblin but declined after learning about the chemicals. When I mentioned the lemon peel trick, she tried it and was thrilled with the results. Only took couple of days. They said that citric acid is the key. Hope this helps someone out there in stinkyland.....
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Don't spill milk inside your car. Think rotten cheese. And it keeps coming back every time you close the windows in damp air and the sun heats up in the mornings.
Nilodor Inc. Bolivar Ohio. Call them they make odor digesters.
Try to get the odor of a decomposing body, out of a car!!!! We took this gentleman out of a corvette, that had been in there for eight days. They tried to sell that vet for 6 months. The impound lot finally had it crushed. They tried everything to get that smell out. It absorbs into everything. They said you could smell it all the way into their offices.
We need a new choice for reacting to posts...... I would suggest eew be added for this situation !
About 10 years ago, my bride took my almost new Escape to the store and got some items to take on our upcoming 10 day vacation. She left a half gallon of milk that had slid under the driver's seat. We left for our vacation the next morning taking her vehicle and leaving mine in the garage. It was August, so temps in the 90's all week. We returned home and I was going to run to town and get a few things. Opened the door to my Escape and WOW...... The jug had split and most of it spilled out. Luckily none of it went down the heat vent.....
Thankfully my best buddy owned a carpet cleaning business.....It took a couple of applications to finally kill it off !
Talking about rotten stink, the worst I have encountered was the time several years ago that I forgot about a 10 pound bag of potato's left inside of my old pop up camper and put it up for the winter.
Come Spring and opening it up, I could have sworn there was a dead body in there!!! Who'd a thunk potato's could be so gross!
Watch ammo nyc. On YouTube. He will teach u how to save interior as much as possible
carpet cleaner like wet dry vac with baking soda poured over wet spots is a good start
Do not cover it up. Fix it first
My dad and several of his 'rusty zipper club' friends were firm believers in using a bag of fresh cut grass.
The worse the smell, the bigger the bag.
I've found that the best way to prevent odors in the truck is to pull over and get out before you fart. That's what my wife keeps telling me, anyway.
The smell of the rotting grass would be worse than the stink?
Fresh coffee grounds will work wonders.