How to remove smoke smell from car ?

[Valv]

I just bought a Dodge Intrepid as spare vehicle. Awesome car but previous owner was a small cigar smoker. Light smell inside (actually good smell to be a smoker) but I need to get rid of it.

Local detail shop will charge $ 100 and guarantee no more smell forever.

Anybody has any "secret of the trade" ? I need to remove odor, not just cover it.

[Jeremy airjer W]

Ozone!

[Hafnutz]

Ozone generator left on overnight combined with wash/cleaning every surface in it. I'd pay the $100.

[HarleyK50]

Febreeeze????

[Surface Tension]

A good wash then followed up by.

[Jeremy airjer W]

Keep adding them until the smell goes away!

[deadeye]

Febreze should work if you soak everything cloth with it. Headliner, seats, carpet. That ozium stuff works good too. My freinds who smoked a lot of other stuff besides just cigarettes always had a can of that stuff and it never smelled in their cars.

Don't forget that a lot of the smell will come out of the vents too. There is a product called that you spray in the vents that will take care of that smell too. Cant remember the name of it for sure...maybe air wash? Either way I know oreillys has it. I sold a lot of it in the summer for the air conditioning musty/mold smell.

[BoxMN]

Mix can or hormel hot chili with velveeta cheese, eat it with hotdogs and nachos, wash down with Grain Belt, then go sit in car until you can't smell smoke anymore. Won't take long

[propster]

Ozone for sure. Buck Country Products makes good ones for pretty cheap and then you have it in case you ever need it again. The Pro model ought to work for that size space, about $40.

[fishing tech]

It doesn't matter what you do, on them hot summer days that stink shows up!!

[Jeremy airjer W]

I had a customer that had a dead mouse on her cabin filter. The smell was unbearable! She found a place that did the ozone treatment and the smell was gone. It was pretty amazing.

[ChuckN]

Get a large bowl, fill 1/2 the bowl with ammonia and let it sit for a couple days. However, since it's winter, it may not work as well. This works best in the summer with the windows closed. Heated garage?

[The_Duckslayer]

Mix can or hormel hot chili with velveeta cheese, eat it with hotdogs and nachos, wash down with Grain Belt, then go sit in car until you can't smell smoke anymore. Won't take long

He he he... I have been doing it wrong all these years... I thought that it was Schells beer that you were supposed to use! Goodun!

[bigdog]

Friend of mine used Febreeze in a used Suburban they bought, smoke smell was really strong but it took care of it. They did have to repeat treatments two or three times though.

I have used something called Atmosklear and had real good results. It's expensive but one treatment seems to do it. They sell it at Fleet Farm and I think Ace Hardware.

[Shack]

Ozone!

Yes, the Ozone brand spray worked very well. The ozone machine would have varying effects. It depended on how bad the smell was.

As for the heater/A/C duct work, a can of LYSOL® | Disinfect works great. Turn the fan on high and spray the Lysol in the cowl area right behind the hood. This is suck in the Lysol and out the vents inside. Switch modes and get all the duct work.

[zamboni]

One of my favorite Seinfeld episodes was the smelly car one.

"It's really bad BO"

"But when the B leaves, shouldn't the O go with it?"

[Surface Tension]

"As for the heater/A/C duct work, a can of LYSOL® | Disinfect works great. Turn the fan on high and spray the Lysol in the cowl area right behind the hood. This is suck in the Lysol and out the vents inside. Switch modes and get all the duct work."

That is a good summer time treatment as well for killing the mold in the AC.

[zamboni]

"As for the heater/A/C duct work, a can of LYSOL® | Disinfect works great. Turn the fan on high and spray the Lysol in the cowl area right behind the hood. This is suck in the Lysol and out the vents inside. Switch modes and get all the duct work."

That is a good summer time treatment as well for killing the mold in the AC.

We did that at Avis Rent a car when a smoker would return a car

[norm25]

Try a product called ozium but remember a little goes a long ways.

[Dellfin]

+1 for the ozone spray. Don't forget to locate and change the cabin air filter or you'll be doing all of this for nothing.

[lakeshoremunster]

I am surprised that no one here has said this product yet, Im sure that almost all of you guys in here have it. Try some scent killer and see if that works