How to Remove Smoke Smell from Your Car

[KirkH]

A customer had a brown stain on his seat, which he thought came from a soda spill. Car smelled HEAVILY of tobacco. I asked the customer if he smoked. He replied "no." Hmmm.

Under the seat I found a pile of dip tobacco. I asked the customer, "does anyone dip tobacco?" "Why yes, my son does." I said "Thats not a soda spill. That's a SPIT CUP spill!"

Much scrubbing with various brand fabric cleaner, stain remover and odor eliminator and a tub of ONA gel in the backseat cleared it up.

no smoke in the headliner, so it was an easier job.

[expdetailing]

"E. Neutralize the air intake system
While the air conditioner is on full blast, look for the air intake of your car. It is usually located on the front fender of the passenger side of the vehicle. Spray the odor neutralizer directly into the vent of the air intake system. This will help combat the cigarette smoke smell coming out of the air conditioner. Continue until the smoke smell reduces."

This sounds like you are putting odor neutralizer in the engine's air intake system rather than the HVAC intake system, which is located along the wiper-blade area ( Long , black plastic peice with all those slots).

[RippyD]

Had a similar situation with a vanilla car air freshener thing. Bought a used car and it reeked of this stuff. Got 90% out by using carpet cleaner and DG odor remover everywhere. Replaced the air filter and ran DG odor remover thorough the filter intake. Getting rid of last 10% is proving to be tough. May just have to wait it out.

[Old Car Guy]

Changing the cabin air filter will help. I change mine annually.

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