grant31781

Sorry Guys. I didn't see the last replies for years! Removing all of that foam did help a lot with that smell getting in your clothes however it is still there especially when it is hot outside. It still seems to be coming form under the dash. I am not 100% sure I got all of the foam out from under the dash. It doesn't take much of this foam to emit a lot of odor. My life jackets reek of this odor. They have been in there for a year. I added a bag of ground coffee to the inside of the truck. It does fair at masking the odor. I really want to get rid of the smell. I did save a chuck of the foam in a ziplock bag. It still stinks just as bad as it did in 2021. I can smell it through the ziplock.

I found the source of the stench! It looks like a yellow urethane foam. It is only under the carpet on the firewall. Not sure why it smells so bad as it breaks down. Never smelled foam that looks like this kind have this terrible odor. Hell I cant even wash the smell off of my hands. Unfortunately I cant get it all out. It goes up behind the dash where I cant reach. It looks like I need to be able to get to the firewall behind the ac box to get the rest of it out. Are there any videos showing how to get this out?

My truck did not have this smell for many years. I got it new in 2000 and it used to have that nice new car smell. I am not sure when the foul odor started but it is bad and sticks. The smell gets on my clothes and everything that has been in the truck. 10 minutes in there and I can smell it on me. Its not antifreeze and its not a crayon a kid stuck in the vents. I am sure of all that. So I have tried everything I can think of to get this smell to go away. New cabin air filters, cleaned carpets and seats with a carpet shampoo machine and ran an ozone generator for hours a few times. The ozone did get the odor out of the seats however it just keeps coming back especially if the truck gets hot sitting in the sun. The odor seems to be coming from the vents. I am wondering if it is the adhesives that were used that are breaking down. I know VW used an adhesive that gives off a crayon smell when it degrades. Have any of you had this issue and were you able to fix it? Thanks, Grant