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LINLIN

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I bought a used 01 LS V8 Sport. How can I get rid of the cigarette smell. I've cleaned it many times and the smell is gone except for when it is damp outside (foggy rainy, snowy) and I turn on the heater/defroster. The smell is defiantly stale cigarettes not burning oil or antifreeze. I've cleaned the heater fan and all the duct work I can remove easily. I've also replaced the cabin air filter.

Any suggestions?
 
Rip out the carpet, replace the seats, and install a new headliner =) Sorry but I've never found a good way to get rid of that nasty smell either.
 
When you have to warm your car up in the morning get a leather airfreshener and put it in the vents with the heat on high...I use this method for other smokey smell's it works good. My sunroof poped open before the timer shutdown just before a storm and it rained in my car. I used blue coral carpet cleaner. spray it in good and take a towel and use your knuckles to massage the foam into the carpet do it everywhere in the car that it can be used....it takes alot of elbow grease but it works....the rain smell was way worse than ciggaretes...what ever is leaving the smell behind needs to be pulled out by the massageing or it will just keep settling and settling with more and more solevants on top killing more and more smelly stuffs and makeing more and more smelly stuffs ( leaving bacterias behind:eek: ).

Oh and I did this with baby food.
Baby formula, and other baby stuff as well.
 
Take it to one of those fire restoration specialists.....

LINLIN said:
I bought a used 01 LS V8 Sport. How can I get rid of the cigarette smell. I've cleaned it many times and the smell is gone except for when it is damp outside (foggy rainy, snowy) and I turn on the heater/defroster. The smell is defiantly stale cigarettes not burning oil or antifreeze. I've cleaned the heater fan and all the duct work I can remove easily. I've also replaced the cabin air filter.

Any suggestions?
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They do an amazing job. Even though it was not in a fire, they can work miracles with removing bad smells from houses and cars. We had a house up the street where a man killed his girlfriend and set hr on fire. Nothing worse than the smell of burning or rotting human flesh. These restoration specialists came in and took care of the smell. Your car should be a piece of cake after that smell.
 
I think I got the smell out of the carpets and headliner. I think it's trapped inside the HVAC system somewhere. I'm starting to think I need to replace the heater core.
 
bufordtpisser said:
They do an amazing job. Even though it was not in a fire, they can work miracles with removing bad smells from houses and cars. We had a house up the street where a man killed his girlfriend and set hr on fire. Nothing worse than the smell of burning or rotting human flesh. These restoration specialists came in and took care of the smell. Your car should be a piece of cake after that smell.
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that's a good idea. Thanks.
 
I don't know about killing people and burning them, lol.

Go to the local car wash or car place, find some Ozium, spray that in the vents, I probably wouldnt be in the car tho, Ozium is extremely strong. for everything else tho, I don't really know, I'd have to go with the previous posters, get some carpet cleaner and just scrub til you can't scrub anymore, the headliner is going to be the part that smells the most.
 
Its still there...it just needs to get triggered by the heat and maybe excess moisture...if it was in the vent lines it would be "aird" out by now thats an easy way....it has to still be traped trsut me...if its in the heater core then wow that guy must had been the Marlboro man in his truest form.

Another is, it might be in the seats wich will be tough to remove the smell from. The smoke restores might not do it or might cost yah a bunch of cash maybe even just be worth going to the dealership for a full Int deatail...if you want to go down that road.
 
You said that you replaced the cabin filter, did you replace it with one that has carbon filter? The carbon filter takes out odors, the OEM takes out particulates.
 
one time my friend put squid under the driver seat, yes squid bait for fishing. idk how he got the smell out sorry, but he did get it out...
..anyways it sounds like the previous owner smoked in the car with the recirculate button on. when you run the a/c-heat do you run it with the max ac/recirculate button on as well? in my cars when i smoke in them, i run the ac or heat depending and DOUBLE CHECK that the recirculate buttons not on b.c that will definately make it reek like smoke. just my .02 cents
 
Yup....Id say my idea and the two above and it will go away...it sounds worse than it can be trust me...I had worse more often than this. Carbon and make sure you air it out good and raise all the smell up to the surface of the matterials..Ie carpet and headliner with a good cleaner and odor eliminator
And make sure you do the headliner realy good 90 somthing % of the smoke goes up to this spot.

And what a jerk...thats nasty if the pre owner drove with his car baked with with cigg smoke on recirculate....you might have a car worth money it seems like Tom Waits owned this car.....EEEWWWW that stuff can be nasty even for people who smoke.
 
My sister got a car from a heavy smoker years ago, and she used Ozium (IIRC) to de-smoke it. She had to keep doing it, because that stuff was buried in everything. She'd get it smelling OK, then the smoke would come back, and she'd have to get after it again. Eventually, she got it all, it just took a few weeks (or months; I don't remember).
 
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