lol sounds stupid, but everytime i get in, it still smells like the RTV sealant i used on my shifter. any ideas how i can get rid of it once and for all? its gettin a little ridiculous now its been like that for so long.
thanks

 

Leave some dryer sheets in there. I store my car with bounce dryer sheets in there (rodents apparently hate the smeel of bounce) and when the car comes out of storage that is all you can smell. It is kinda overpowering at first but it fades and smells better than the barfy smell of RTV.

 

hey thats a good idea, i was thinking moth *****, but obviously thats not much of an upgrade in scent
thanks for the idea

 

All depends on what I had for lunch!!!

Seriously though, dryer sheets should do the trick.

 

moth ***** are a no no. You would have to sell the car it would be so bad. Your car would smell like an old persons closet. uhg....

 

Crap, and im gonna have mothballs in mine till june....looks like im gonna have to sell the cars to an old person now.

 

Mildew usually...

 

uh o my car has been sittign all winter with maoth ***** all over in side and out side of it to keep the little creatures out of it now its going to small liek an old persons house.

 

Do not do moth *****. My mother had the bright idea of putting moth ***** in my room while I was away at school (about 200 km away) Its been almost a year and the smell is still there.
Just don't do it, its so rotten to smell moth ***** daily.

 

Try Febreze for Autos (doesn't smell all sickly sweet like regular Febreze). Get everything that's fabric damp with the stuff and let it sit in the sun for a warm afternoon (do warm afternoons exist where you are?!). Then hit it with some New Car Scent spray. The car will smell wonderful once the initial heavy scent wears out.

 

of course we have warm afternoons!
ill try the febreeze and then hit it up with some bounce, hopefully it wont smell too pretty lol
thanks

 

mine just came back from the body shop and it smells like banannas , maybe its the paint procedures that do it but i like the smell. to get rid of smell you can either use a can of coffee beans but the car will smell like coffee or what i do is use baking soda in a cereal bowl . just leave it there when you store it for winter. i leave mine in for winter storage and it has no funky smells afterwards.

 

Y'all are makin me real sorry i went and put those mothballs in.

 

beer

 

My 91 has a citrus smell...it smells a lil like fruity pebbles..lol.....I use a citrus spray....and I don't drive it in the winter...so....it smells like that all the time...

 

Exactly!

 

Ok, so now that ive gone and made the mothball mistake, any way to get rid of the smell once i crack the car open?

 

fabreeze..

 

I tried the FeBreze for Autos and it smelled like Elmers Glue. I'm going to throw that stuff away.

 

Simple... Take the t-tops off if you have them, roll the windows down, get on the highway and do 100.... yeah for air circulation! You can always do the ol shove some air fresheners down the AC vent trick too,

 

my car has had a distinct smell ever since i bought it, but i dont know what it is. ive grown acustomed to it so i usually dont smell it anymore

 

Ok got it, t-tops for the bird, and about 5 gallons of febreeze for the maro. I wonder if i can get an industrial sized jug of it?

 

smells like leather.

 

When i got my iroc, it smelled like hazelnut something or other from the chick who owned it before me. (must've been a fan of it or something). It reeked for 5 months. Now it smells like paint, primer, and dust, and generally looks like krap too. maybe i should've covered the interior up when i took the car apart and sanded it down to bare metal.....


It was basically mint when i got it:

 

Not for a couple more months. Of course we don't really have cold ones either, just lots of rain!

 

my car smells like ***** right now cause i ****ed my g/f in there last night haha

 

:sillylol:


mine has no distinct smell to it. i'm going to put that strawberry little tree air freshner in it though.

 

shore breeze, a Bath and Body works auto freshener thingy. Its really cool.

 

Leather, Lexol. No pinoch, dont want a stain on the seats.

 

corsica smells like ciggarette smoke and new car scent treefresheners. Every time i turn the heat on i swear i smell pot for a second, maybe the previous owner got alot of fumes built up in the heater vents or something.

 

my car smells like the perfume the lady before i got it wore, it first it smells good..after a few mins u wanna roll the windows down...then my mom gets in and all the bad smell goes away and a new worse smell of cigarette smoke arrives..basicly my car smells not good..lol anyone know of the "new car scent" that actually smells like a new car scent..i know the little tree doesnt smell no where close to it

 

Gasoline, exhaust fumes, and cigarettes (doesn't bother me none because I'm the one who made it smell that way) it has another distinctive smell I can't put my finger on, but I've smelled it other places too, but I have no idea what it is.

 

Mine smells like gas, oil, and burnt rubber.

 

This is the reason threads like this get CLOSED!!!