3 Quick Tips To De-Stink Your Car | Autoblog Details

Living in such a small space like your interior cabin, it can quickly get gross and smell like a high school locker room. These 3 tips can help you remove those funky smells.

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[KapitalP]

Change the cabin air filter occasionally is probably the best tip.

[HappyfoxBiz]

1. Don't smoke in your car
2. clean up after yourself each time you leave your car
3. clean your car weekly, a vacuum, brush down and even a spritz of carpet cleaner will go a long way.
4. wipe down the interior with APC, as long as you don't use harsh APC or a diluted APC and wipe down the residue afterwards then your interior won't mind it too much.
5.Get rid of stains as soon as possible, get a scrubbing brush and carpet cleaner then go to town after you vacuumed out your car.
6. Don't use air fresheners, if you have to then my advice is to grind up the air freshener, put it in a coffee filter and run water over it into a spray bottle, spritz that under the floor of the drivers and passenger seats... heat rises and so do smells

Do not do the lick test, not only does it not work but I don't think you should be licking the exhaust pipe of your car, there are some parts of the car that get hot, such as under the carpet of the front passenger compartment is the catalytic converters, trust me on this they run hot by design and transfer the heat.

[marylouirick]

Bottom line, No smoking in ur car, plus no beer, food. Just
Water.

[nonameisthename]

I'm not a smoker, but I left my car to be wrapped, and they had my car for two weeks. When I got it back, I almost threw up in it!! They had so much smoke fumes in it that I had to leave my windows down for four days in the garage!! That helped, but I still smelled that little stinch. So I cleaned and conditioned my seats, and that did it. I sprayed some febreeze in the headliner before I did the seats. Then put an air freshener in to top it off..

[trumpisntdoneyet]

🇺🇸 Sprinkle baking powder on top of the odor spot. Let it sit for at least an hour. Then vacuum. Repeat until the odor goes away. 🇺🇸

[pmg]

Im not a professional, but I drive a lot and my car gets smelly from time to time and here’s what I do:

1. Cleanup the inside of my car.
2. Turn my heat on high recycle.
3. Spray about 1/4 bottle of Ozium inside of my car.
4. Leave the car running for about 30 minutes.
5. Open the windows and let the car air out for about 15 minutes.

It works great and it’s pretty easy.

(Of course change the cabin filter about once a year)

[madmoneyslick]

I wish this guy could detail my expedition.

[wetherby]

Larry, you are a pro! Thanks again for all the useful info!

[lexd]

How long do you spray the vents? How long do you leave the windows down and fan on?

[RichardsWorld]

Good thing you mentioned seatbelts. I think that is the only thing I haven't cleaned. I must have spilled Redbull on my seatbelt.

[daxinventor]

My wife says that my truck smells like a trash bin. So now I know what to do to make it smell pretty like her sweet smelling powder room car. Thanks Autoblog. I am cleaning my act tomorrow so that my wife can ride in my truck once a year and smell the fresh scent of a beauty salon all heavenly and such.

[leah-ozzi]

The french fry in the back is making my car stink.... oops

[albertrivera]

Thanks guys.. now my car won't stink like hangover farts for the beginning of the year

[TRabocse]

Excellent Video and great tips are given here. Thank you!

[trillisra]

I get migraines with the smell of any perfume and the new car I got has a smell of perfume can anybody tell me how to get rid of it completely, so it smells like nothing please ?

[thare]

How many guys are watching this before taking out a new girl on a date?

[hitori_gurashi]

i have this problem that whenever i bought an air freshner, to me it seems like icant smell it, but i guess its bec of not cleaning the cabin filter... thanks to this video i now know that it should be clean too

[edwin]

Can you just use Lysol spray into the intake vents while the AC is on full blast with out recirculating on and all windows down? Or is this method in the video the best way to do it?

[aquariusspirit]

I just got my car detailed and the seats were still wet, it’s been raining for days now so I can’t roll down the windows, also when I picked it up the windows weren’t down!!!the seats stink. 250 down the drain

[gfitzgerald]

i have stipped a car of seats i dont know what was spilt on the carpet but the smell is verry bad it has being siting like that for weeks nowi was told i have shampood steamed and extracted all liquids from the carpet i also shampooed the headliner of the car but the smell is still there what else can i try the smell is very bad and i cant find the source i cleaned all plastics all carpets seats everything i could think of i even dried out the car with a heater could it be that what ever was spilt went through the carpet then through the foam/spungy stuff and and down to the bare metal will i have to pull out all the carpet and stuff or is there another solution to mask the smell or something i even used baking soda for over 24 hours and the smell is still there i need a solution please from someoneit smells like someone took a shit in the car