Removing Smells From Interior

[oneillt]

Does anyone have any good tricks on how to remove that stale cigarette smell out of a truck with a cloth interior? It’s a reg cab and the seats are cloth and floor is carpet.

[69camarorag]

Does anyone have any good tricks on how to remove that stale cigarette smell out of a truck with a cloth interior? It's a reg cab and the seats are cloth and floor is carpet.

 

Best way is with a ionizer machine. Most dealers have them to deal with used vehicles. If you are tight with your dealer maybe they will let you "borrow" theirs at the dealership. You just place machine insde cab and plug it in. Any detail shop should also have one

[Robertabf]

Easiest way is to put dryer sheets under the mats and seats

[donjames911]

Does anyone have any good tricks on how to remove that stale cigarette smell out of a truck with a cloth interior? It’s a reg cab and the seats are cloth and floor is carpet.

 

Febreeze works well.

[700 sportsman]

I would reccomend going to a detail shop and seeing what they have. The detail shop where I work has an ozone machine, which works very well, and if that doesn't help it we have a fogger that we fill the car with and circulate it through.

[oneillt]

I'm getting the truck through the local GMC dealership because we are friends with the owner. It was a trade in and he showed it to me right when they got it and i bought it without him cleaning it yet. There were still cigarette butts in the ash tray. I'm not gunna be picking up the truck for a week and half because he has to get a new title for it and he said he still needs to do his used car servicing to it. He said he'd have it detailed and all that so maybe he'll take care of it for me. We'll see. Ive also heard of some trick with vinegar and baking soda?

[oneillt]

On a side note, I know the truck was definitely owned by an older person for two reasons:

-It has those blind spot mirror ad-ons to the side-view mirrors, dead giveaway

-Ashtray was actually used as an ashtray, no one does that anymore.

[Superperv23]

You are really going to need the seats and carpet shampooed and extracted, start phoning detailing shops they will do this all the time and shop for best price. Anything you do yourself is just going to mask the smell for a bit not get rid of it.

[oneillt]

Any reason why I cant just use a shampoo machine that is made for household carpets? Same thing right?

[Superperv23]

Any reason why I cant just use a shampoo machine that is made for household carpets? Same thing right?

 

If it also extracts the cleaning solution then yes, the extraction is the key to the process you want to remove the solution that has mixed with the dirt and in your case ash in the seat, it is really what you need to do if a vehicle was smoked in every day.

[flhusa1]

On a side note, I know the truck was definitely owned by an older person for two reasons:

-It has those blind spot mirror ad-ons to the side-view mirrors, dead giveaway

-Ashtray was actually used as an ashtray, no one does that anymore.

i must be really old because i added those blind spot mirrors when i got my truck.i guess the older i get the safer i want to be.if i was young enough to learn how to text and drive i would not need those safety things.even though i do not smoke any i more i never used my ashtray when i smoked because i loved to fling my ashes and butts out the window for everyone else to enjoy. it does not pay to get old.

[Mckenzie]

Definitely give febreeze a try

[Deconstruction]

the roof liner is where most of the smoke smell will be located unfortunately I dont have any hints as to cleaning the liner

[jwhuber]

Easiest way is to put dryer sheets under the mats and seats

 

+1

 

My dad bought a truck of one of his friends that smoked (heavily) in his truck. Dryer sheets/febreeze and time are all I know of.

[KMGZ400]

Definitely give febreeze a try

 

 

no just regular Febreeze, get the heavy duty Febreeze or whatever the beefed up one is called