New Car Smell

[~el~jefe~]

keeping it in the hot sun during summer should do the most to get those smells out. I cant imagine them lasting years!

100 degree day with sunshine should bake it clean. I guess Tcoat is like up by arctic circle.

[Boomerang]

Originally Posted by Frisco

Isn't it great? But why? The smell source is toxic, can't be good for you. I think the main reason we love the smell is that it reminds us that we have a new car.

My wife is one of these (rare?) people who don't like the new car smell. Gives her a headache, she says. So I've been driving around with the windows down to try to get rid of it.

How long did it take for the new car smell to dissipate on your car?

CJ

I live in a hot climate and mine was gone after about a year..

Not sure if applicable however Mothers Day is coming up, you could get her this(if you like sleeping on the couch);

[JDM4E]

Excelent question OP. I have tried several of these cars and all had some sort of plastic odor, and I hate that too.
My 2 cents to the story - I would personally try ozone cleaning. Find a company that have the ozone machine (or you can borrow it) put that into your car and try a treatment, or two or three...
If you try, please report back!

Normally, odors and everything goes into... ...everything. Smells are in the seats, upholstery, aircon ducting. By ozoning with closed recirculation you can kill the smell on most places in the car.

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by JDM4E

My 2 cents to the story - I would personally try ozone cleaning. Find a company that have the ozone machine (or you can borrow it) put that into your car and try a treatment, or two or three...
If you try, please report back!

Ozone cleaning is great for getting rid of smells, but ozone also eats wiring and electronics. I would only use it if there were a real problem. For example, if my car smelled like a dead body or had a mold problem, I would ozone it in a heartbeat. But just to get rid of a new car smell, I really wouldn't consider that offensive enough or dangerous enough to justify the wear on the electrical system.

My brother's girlfriend had a mold problem in her house, so he left his ozone generator in her basement for two weeks and stayed at his place. They came back to a flooded basement. The ozone had eaten through a seal on her washing machine. The dryer also never worked right again because the electronics in the control unit were eaten up. And the switch on the zone generator itself had gone bad. Granted, most people aren't going to ozone their cars for two weeks, but it does inflict damage, no matter how slight.

[JDM4E]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

Ozone cleaning is great for getting rid of smells, but ozone also eats wiring and electronics. I would only use it if there were a real problem. For example, if my car smelled like a dead body or had a mold problem, I would ozone it in a heartbeat. But just to get rid of a new car smell, I really wouldn't consider that offensive enough or dangerous enough to justify the wear on the electrical system.

My brother's girlfriend had a mold problem in her house, so he left his ozone generator in her basement for two weeks and stayed at his place. They came back to a flooded basement. The ozone had eaten through a seal on her washing machine. The dryer also never worked right again because the electronics in the control unit were eaten up. And the switch on the zone generator itself had gone bad. Granted, most people aren't going to ozone their cars for two weeks, but it does inflict damage, no matter how slight.

Well I had never heard that, but to my knowledge these things are supposed to be turned on for about an hour. Your experience is VERY extreme, that is like saying that you can die from drinking water so you should not drink it at all. Also, you have to periodically let the place air out after the iteration! I am not an expert on this, but it is something how the molecules reacts and break-up.
However, I will double check with ozone providers what they have to say about this, thanks for the comment

[Da Brz]

I don't remember mine having much of a new car smell.

I've got an 04 Mustang though that still gives you a whiff of it every now and then.

[JDM4E]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-car-...ars-are-worst/

http://www.environmentalhealth.ca/su...gcarsmell.html

Check also this mega-study
http://www.ecocenter.org/sites/defau.../2012_Cars.pdf
sadly they did it before our cars were on sale

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by JDM4E

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-car-...ars-are-worst/

http://www.environmentalhealth.ca/su...gcarsmell.html

Check also this mega-study
http://www.ecocenter.org/sites/defau.../2012_Cars.pdf
sadly they did it before our cars were on sale

Be very very wary when reading this sort of thing. Even the "worst" of those cars comes in several magnitudes below the hazardous levels of what they tested for. Sure It could be said that any level is bad but if you live in a city you are exposed to much greater levels of even worse stuff everyday. It sounds far worse than it is and I am not convinced that a study on ecocenter.org and completed by healthystuff.com is exactly unbiased in the first place. They had better points on end of use hazards than they did in exposure to occupants.


Keep in mind that there are both hazard and odour thresholds for materials and they are not at the same level. There are things that you can smell far before they will harm you and things that will kill you that have no discernible odour. Don't be tricked into thinking that just because you smell something it is at a level that will harm you.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by JDM4E

Excelent question OP. I have tried several of these cars and all had some sort of plastic odor, and I hate that too.
My 2 cents to the story - I would personally try ozone cleaning. Find a company that have the ozone machine (or you can borrow it) put that into your car and try a treatment, or two or three...
If you try, please report back!

Normally, odors and everything goes into... ...everything. Smells are in the seats, upholstery, aircon ducting. By ozoning with closed recirculation you can kill the smell on most places in the car.

An ozone machine would kill the odour but the materials creating the odour are still there. If actually concerned about the "chemical" in the car then using an ozone machine will do nothing. It doesn't destroy chemicals. If it did air pollution would not ever exist.

[Drambeenie]

5 months later, my car still has the new car smell. Probably because it only has 1800 miles

[radroach]

I think a lot of the new-car smell is from the gassing-off of heavy lubricants and glues that go on some interior parts.

If you're having trouble with bad interior odor, my solutions are: Remove anything wet that may cause mildew. Use Damprid moisture absorbing bags to absorb residual wetness. Change your cabin air filter. Get a Subaru A/C refresher kit and follow directions.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Z0***Co.jpg[/IMG]

Also it's probably a good idea to remove your sweat and oils from your car seats before that gets funky, I vacuum the cloth seats often and use a bissel hot-water extractor hand tool, then air out or use damprid to get rid of all the moisture.

[JDM4E]

Originally Posted by Drambeenie

5 months later, my car still has the new car smell. Probably because it only has 1800 miles

How is your new car smell now?

[Drambeenie]

Originally Posted by JDM4E

How is your new car smell now?

Non existent

[finch1750]

Originally Posted by Frisco

Isn't it great? But why? The smell source is toxic, can't be good for you. I think the main reason we love the smell is that it reminds us that we have a new car.

My wife is one of these (rare?) people who don't like the new car smell. Gives her a headache, she says. So I've been driving around with the windows down to try to get rid of it.

How long did it take for the new car smell to dissipate on your car?

CJ

Do all synthetic type smells give her a headache? Could try a spray fabric freshener to mask it for a bit if not