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How do I get the smell out of my car's air vents?
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Stinkin' In Springfield
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Date: November 04, 2012 09:09PM
Upon visual inspection there's nothing in my vents that appears to be causing the musty/moldy smell (no animals or other blockages). I've replaced the cabin filter and no change. Disinfecting sprays just cover the smell for a day and then it returns.
Re: How do I get the smell out of my car's air vents?
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Number of posts till
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Date: November 04, 2012 09:10PM
This becomes either racist or against Obama
Over/under on 3
Over/under on 3
Re: How do I get the smell out of my car's air vents?
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rapid response
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Date: November 04, 2012 09:11PM
Its just B O, should be gone by next Tuesday with any luck
Re: How do I get the smell out of my car's air vents?
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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
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Date: November 04, 2012 09:12PM
rapid response Wrote:
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> Its just B O, should be gone by next Tuesday with
> any luck
BOOM, just 1
Ok who had money on under. I should have realized just how many douchebags love the off-topic forum... and that this is Fairfax Underground
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> Its just B O, should be gone by next Tuesday with
> any luck
BOOM, just 1
Ok who had money on under. I should have realized just how many douchebags love the off-topic forum... and that this is Fairfax Underground
Re: How do I get the smell out of my car's air vents?
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Boom!
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Date: November 04, 2012 09:13PM
Re: How do I get the smell out of my car's air vents?
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Romley!!!!!
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Date: November 04, 2012 09:14PM
Re: How do I get the smell out of my car's air vents?
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200million Romeny Supports
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Date: November 04, 2012 09:19PM
Re: How do I get the smell out of my car's air vents?
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barry usa
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Date: November 04, 2012 09:27PM
Oh yeah thats cool
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Re: How do I get the smell out of my car's air vents?
Posted by:
Sweat Sox
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Date: November 04, 2012 09:28PM
You need to get the good stuff that you inject into the AC ducts. The wimpy off-the-shelf sprays won't do much of anything.
Re: How do I get the smell out of my car's air vents?
Posted by:
Stinkin' In Springfield
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Date: November 04, 2012 09:59PM
Sweat Sox Wrote:
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> You need to get the good stuff that you inject
> into the AC ducts. The wimpy off-the-shelf sprays
> won't do much of anything.
Link?
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> You need to get the good stuff that you inject
> into the AC ducts. The wimpy off-the-shelf sprays
> won't do much of anything.
Link?
Re: How do I get the smell out of my car's air vents?
Posted by:
496
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Date: November 04, 2012 10:07PM
Seinfeld can help you with that problem.
Re: How do I get the smell out of my car's air vents?
Posted by:
Stinkfoot
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Date: November 04, 2012 11:03PM
Stinkin' In Springfield Wrote:
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> Sweat Sox Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > You need to get the good stuff that you inject
> > into the AC ducts. The wimpy off-the-shelf
> sprays
> > won't do much of anything.
>
> Link?
Something like these:
http://www.certifiedacpro.com/proddetail.php?prod=OE-1
http://lexus.sewellparts.com/accessories-catalog/Service/GS300-1999/4481.html
I've not used any for years so not up on what's good out there now but if you search for AC odor eliminator or AC evaporator odor remover or similar you'll find a bunch. Common problem.
You need to get it down into the ducts and around the evaporator where things stay moist and dark and the funk lives. How hard that is to do will depend on the car.
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> Sweat Sox Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > You need to get the good stuff that you inject
> > into the AC ducts. The wimpy off-the-shelf
> sprays
> > won't do much of anything.
>
> Link?
Something like these:
http://www.certifiedacpro.com/proddetail.php?prod=OE-1
http://lexus.sewellparts.com/accessories-catalog/Service/GS300-1999/4481.html
I've not used any for years so not up on what's good out there now but if you search for AC odor eliminator or AC evaporator odor remover or similar you'll find a bunch. Common problem.
You need to get it down into the ducts and around the evaporator where things stay moist and dark and the funk lives. How hard that is to do will depend on the car.
Re: How do I get the smell out of my car's air vents?
Posted by:
Vinegar
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Date: November 04, 2012 11:51PM
Try putting distilled white vinegar in a spray bottle and spray into the vents.
It's cheap and won't cause harm to plastics or anything, and it won't leave a perfume smell like all the commercial products.
It's cheap and won't cause harm to plastics or anything, and it won't leave a perfume smell like all the commercial products.
Re: How do I get the smell out of my car's air vents?
Posted by:
Vinegar
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Date: November 04, 2012 11:52PM
forgot to add -- find the air intake on the other side of the firewall and spray into there with your defroster cranked on high to pull it all the way through your system.
Re: How do I get the smell out of my car's air vents?
Posted by:
Hahahahapwned
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Date: November 05, 2012 05:54AM
Its your atheletes foot causing the smell you ass hat!
Once i cured/controlled my foot oder then the airvents smelled fine.
Once i cured/controlled my foot oder then the airvents smelled fine.
Re: How do I get the smell out of my car's air vents?
Posted by:
gopher
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Date: November 05, 2012 06:19AM
"The Smelly Car" is the 61st episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. The episode was the 21st episode for the fourth season. It aired on April 16, 1993.
Plot After dinner, Jerry and Elaine discover a strong smell of body odor in Jerry's BMW 5 Series, assumed to have been left by a valet who was tasked with parking it. After they endured an unpleasant drive to the home of Elaine's boyfriend Carl (Nick Bakay), Carl is offended by the smell of Elaine's hair when they embrace. He tells her he has to get up early, so she does not spend the night.
Kramer enters, he comments on their body odor. Jerry blames the car's stink on the valet at the restaurant and is determined to demand that the restaurant share the cost of cleaning. He anthropomorphizes the smell: "Don't you see what's happening here? It's attached itself to me! It's alive! ... And it's destroying the lives of everyone in its path." Again, later: "This is not just an odor - you need a priest to get rid of this thing! ... It's a presence! It's The Beast!" (Elaine remarks on this, later, to Carl: "Oh, man, just rampant, mutant B.O. The "O" went from the valet's "B", to the car, to me. It clings to everything. Jerry thinks it's an entity.")
The restaurant maître d' (Michael Des Barres) initially refuses to pay for car cleaning, but eventually agrees after Jerry locks him inside the car, refusing to let him out unless he pays half of the $250 price.
After a complete "de-ionizing" of the car, Jerry, discovers the stink is still there. Meanwhile, Elaine decides to go to a hair salon to wash the smell out of her hair, despite having already taken a thorough shower, and (believing that the smell has gone away) tries to restart her relationship with Carl. He, however, tells her that she still smells.
Jerry tries to sell the car, but the dealer claims he cannot sell it. Kramer's relationship with Mona ends when she smells the odor on him, even though he was never in the car - but he had borrowed Jerry's jacket, which was the same one he was wearing in the car. When it cannot be sold, Jerry ends up abandoning the car and its keys out on the street just to get rid of it. A young man sees this, seizes the keys, and hops into the car, but is also disgusted by the smell.
The episode ends with a monologue by Jerry: "Why do we need B.O.? What is the function of it? Everything in nature has a reason, has a purpose, except B.O. Doesn't make any sense - do something good, hard work, exercise, smell very bad. This is the way the human being is designed. You move, you stink. Why can't our bodies help us? Why can't sweat smell good?"[1][2]
Plot After dinner, Jerry and Elaine discover a strong smell of body odor in Jerry's BMW 5 Series, assumed to have been left by a valet who was tasked with parking it. After they endured an unpleasant drive to the home of Elaine's boyfriend Carl (Nick Bakay), Carl is offended by the smell of Elaine's hair when they embrace. He tells her he has to get up early, so she does not spend the night.
Kramer enters, he comments on their body odor. Jerry blames the car's stink on the valet at the restaurant and is determined to demand that the restaurant share the cost of cleaning. He anthropomorphizes the smell: "Don't you see what's happening here? It's attached itself to me! It's alive! ... And it's destroying the lives of everyone in its path." Again, later: "This is not just an odor - you need a priest to get rid of this thing! ... It's a presence! It's The Beast!" (Elaine remarks on this, later, to Carl: "Oh, man, just rampant, mutant B.O. The "O" went from the valet's "B", to the car, to me. It clings to everything. Jerry thinks it's an entity.")
The restaurant maître d' (Michael Des Barres) initially refuses to pay for car cleaning, but eventually agrees after Jerry locks him inside the car, refusing to let him out unless he pays half of the $250 price.
After a complete "de-ionizing" of the car, Jerry, discovers the stink is still there. Meanwhile, Elaine decides to go to a hair salon to wash the smell out of her hair, despite having already taken a thorough shower, and (believing that the smell has gone away) tries to restart her relationship with Carl. He, however, tells her that she still smells.
Jerry tries to sell the car, but the dealer claims he cannot sell it. Kramer's relationship with Mona ends when she smells the odor on him, even though he was never in the car - but he had borrowed Jerry's jacket, which was the same one he was wearing in the car. When it cannot be sold, Jerry ends up abandoning the car and its keys out on the street just to get rid of it. A young man sees this, seizes the keys, and hops into the car, but is also disgusted by the smell.
The episode ends with a monologue by Jerry: "Why do we need B.O.? What is the function of it? Everything in nature has a reason, has a purpose, except B.O. Doesn't make any sense - do something good, hard work, exercise, smell very bad. This is the way the human being is designed. You move, you stink. Why can't our bodies help us? Why can't sweat smell good?"[1][2]