How to deodorize seats
01-27-2010, 10:11 AM
#41
Once with my company car (Crown Vic) we went fishing and had a container of worms for bait. Someway some of the little fellas crawled out and got under the trunk mat (I didnt know it). Well, after some hot sunny days, the car started to stink like hell. Tore it apart looking for something until I got under the trunk mat. There they were....all roasted and stinky. A good cleaning and it was gone.
01-27-2010, 10:16 AM
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He may have farted in that seat.
Which if he did, then you have an entirely different set of problems.
You say above: "The previous owner smoked in the car but the smell is not smoke..."
Thats a dead giveaway that it's a seat cushion filled with residue from farts from as far back as who knows when.
There are two effective ways to manage your problem, one more expensive than the other.
You can remove the seats and take a broomstick and attempt to beat the farts out of the cushions.
If that fails, then you are looking at buying new seats.
I'm hoping that your carpeting has not been affected as well, since the dietary habits, and the length of the previuos owner's commutes, will have an affect as well.
Good luck.
Which if he did, then you have an entirely different set of problems.
You say above: "The previous owner smoked in the car but the smell is not smoke..."
Thats a dead giveaway that it's a seat cushion filled with residue from farts from as far back as who knows when.
There are two effective ways to manage your problem, one more expensive than the other.
You can remove the seats and take a broomstick and attempt to beat the farts out of the cushions.
If that fails, then you are looking at buying new seats.
I'm hoping that your carpeting has not been affected as well, since the dietary habits, and the length of the previuos owner's commutes, will have an affect as well.
Good luck.
01-27-2010, 03:30 PM
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OK...seriously. I own a cleaning company (22 years). We use ozonators in our business for cigarette smoke in homes and apts. When I bought my vette it had 1003 miles on it and came with a perfume type odor. Could of been a freshener, don't know, and didn't care. Two hours of letting the ozonator run with windows and doors closed......smells like a new car. The odor never returned. TRY IT!
01-27-2010, 04:09 PM
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your never gonna get smoke out of the seats. the smoke soaks in the pores of the leather and right into the foam. never by a car off a crack head.
01-27-2010, 04:55 PM
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Previous owner could of spilled a bottle of cheap perfume in the car and it soaked into the foam of the seats. That would suck. 
Like AR-55 said try the ozonator.
good luck
Like AR-55 said try the ozonator.good luck
12-07-2015, 03:16 PM
#47
Ozone generator +100000. Its the only thing I've heard and known to work on nasty smells. If you are sure the car is completely clean then rent/buy an Ozone generator (Amazon sells a small personal unit for $80). If you have a really nasty example, then possible steaming and such to really kill any sort of germs/residue/stains first, then dry then OZONE!!!
12-07-2015, 03:38 PM
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Check for rotting meat some where in the car.... Sounds like a funny or stupid comment I know but here is an honest to God true story.
4 years ago I had a 2005 Mustang as a DD in California and my wife used the car at night occassionally for her errand running.
One day I noticed a strange smell in the car but didn't think too much of it but then daily for about a 2 week period the smell kept getting worse and stronger. It was so bad I put the car on ramps to make sure I didn't hit an animal and it was rotting in the frame somewhere. I pulled the seats, I pulled the carpet, I pulled the sound deadening material and bleached the entire inside of the vehicle but the smell was still there.
Finally decided I should check the trunk and it turns out about a week before I noticed the smell my wife went grocery shopping and when her and I both unloaded the car (I can't solely blame her since I helped) we didn't see a package of 16 chicken legs that slid under into the spare tire wheel well on the back side of the trunk. That package sat rotting for several weeks in that hidden spot.
As bad as it smelled, Thanks goodness the package was still sealed because the meat was so decomposed that it had fallen off the bones and was like a greenish soupy mess inside the package. It was N-A-S-T-Y!!
Needless to say I then stripped the trunk and deorderized that and in about a week, the smell totally disappeared.
It's one of those smells you never forget.
Anyway, like I noted earlier.... check for rotting meat! :o)
4 years ago I had a 2005 Mustang as a DD in California and my wife used the car at night occassionally for her errand running.
One day I noticed a strange smell in the car but didn't think too much of it but then daily for about a 2 week period the smell kept getting worse and stronger. It was so bad I put the car on ramps to make sure I didn't hit an animal and it was rotting in the frame somewhere. I pulled the seats, I pulled the carpet, I pulled the sound deadening material and bleached the entire inside of the vehicle but the smell was still there.
Finally decided I should check the trunk and it turns out about a week before I noticed the smell my wife went grocery shopping and when her and I both unloaded the car (I can't solely blame her since I helped) we didn't see a package of 16 chicken legs that slid under into the spare tire wheel well on the back side of the trunk. That package sat rotting for several weeks in that hidden spot.
As bad as it smelled, Thanks goodness the package was still sealed because the meat was so decomposed that it had fallen off the bones and was like a greenish soupy mess inside the package. It was N-A-S-T-Y!!
Needless to say I then stripped the trunk and deorderized that and in about a week, the smell totally disappeared.
It's one of those smells you never forget.
Anyway, like I noted earlier.... check for rotting meat! :o)
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12-08-2015, 12:57 PM
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12-08-2015, 03:17 PM
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I use this in my car on everything. It leaves a nice leather smell scent.
12-08-2015, 03:56 PM
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