Does your car's interior smell like__? Freshen it for $7.90

JHawk

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I actually was thinking more along the lines of tennis shoes, pets, old cheeseburgers etc. I've got a couple of these type of devices in my home and I think they work pretty well.

Looks like a good deal for the car.
 

Mermaidman

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BS--At best, the ionizer just masks the other odors poorly.

I tried the one from Sharper IMage and returned it.
 

tallest1

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Originally posted by: Mermaidman
BS--At best, the ionizer just masks the other odors poorly.

I tried the one from Sharper IMage and returned it.


Urr.... how could the ionizer mask other odors? It doesn't generate a scent
 

VirtualLarry

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Originally posted by: Mermaidman
BS--At best, the ionizer just masks the other odors poorly.

I tried the one from Sharper IMage and returned it.

The description on the site seems exceedingly misleading. Negatively-charged particles do not "eliminate harmful pollen, mildew, smoke and bacteria". They can cause particulate matter in the air to bind with them and get charged, such that they have a stronger "static-cling" type attraction to surfaces, and so tend to float around in the air much less, hence you may smell them less, but it's best to eliminate the source of the particulate matter in the first place, rather than mask it. (Lysol to kill bacteria, fungicide to kill mildew, HEPA filter to reduce pollen, or use the A/C exclusively and keep the windows rolled up in the car, etc. Oh yeah, DONT SMOKE, it's bad for you. If you don't smoke, there won't be any smoke to remove from the air.)

Not quite sure how to eliminate the smell of "unwashed vagina" from a car though. You got me on that one.

I noticed the other day that mine just kinda smells a little generally like B.O. Need to figure out a way to fix that too. Do they make "rug shampoo"-type machines, for car upholstry?
 

Maximus96

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Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Originally posted by: Mermaidman
BS--At best, the ionizer just masks the other odors poorly.

I tried the one from Sharper IMage and returned it.


Not quite sure how to eliminate the smell of "unwashed vagina" from a car though. You got me on that one.

summer's eve
 

Mermaidman

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Originally posted by: tallest1
Originally posted by: Mermaidman
BS--At best, the ionizer just masks the other odors poorly.

I tried the one from Sharper IMage and returned it.


Urr.... how could the ionizer mask other odors? It doesn't generate a scent
The doodad generates ozone as well--sorta like a burnt metallic smell. One its own, the ozone would probably smell OK, but ozone smell plus preexisting odor=bleah.
 

Paul

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How about oysters and fish smells? The car has been smelling like this for 2 weeks after a fishing trip.
 

Dnana

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I find that using my steam cleaner actually adds to the smell - even though I am cleaning the steamed carpet becomes mildewy. Best thing to do is just pass gas and let it mix with the interior - best to do outside the carpool lane if you know what I mean.
 

BigdaddyF

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I used a similar product. It worked pretty well...for about a month.

When it stopped working, I took it apart and found that the internal electronics was gunked up and shorted the HV circuit. I cleaned it and put it back together but it never worked right.
 

DoeBoy

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I swear as time goes on the replys in links get funnier and funnier. Yall are a good damn laf and yeh I usually stick to febreeze to get out that nasty cooch smell. Clorox has some good deep smell remover stuff also that works great lol
 

cartier

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my sister brought home a big huge bowl of cold shrimp once that was leftover after a big party. she spilled it on the floor of her new car. the poor car was NEVER the same again.
 

thejman

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FWIW:

Beware of any "air cleaner" that generates Ozone. Ozone or triatomic oxygen, is formed in an electrical charge jumps an air gap, ionizing the air in the gap, and forms a spark. It's the odor you notice after a thunderstorm, and the pungent odor you smell around an electrical spark.

Ozone is a potent pulmonary (lung) irritant, and the USEPA and the CPSC have forced several manufacturers of larger AC powered air cleaners that generate excessive Ozone to recall their devices, and going back a number of years, one manufacturer was ordered to change their whole marketing plan and remove many claims they had included in their promotional literature. While Ozone is good in the upper atmosphere, where it absorbs UV radiation (and there's a "hole" in the stratospheric Ozone layer over Antarctica), its not good at ground level.

FYI: In the workplace, OSHA regulates employee exposure to Ozone gas through its Air Contaminants Standard, 29 CFR 1910.1000. The permissible exposure limit (PEL) for Ozone is listed in Table Z-1 as an 8-hour, time-weighted average value of 0.1 part of ozone per million parts of air (ppm), or 0.2 milligrams of ozone per cubic meter of air (mg/m3). That's not a lot of Ozone. Ozone odor is generally detectable at concentrations of 0.02-0.05 ppm. (If you can smell it, there's a good chance there's too much!).


For comparison:
There are about 20 drops (from an eyedropper) in a ml.
There are 29.57 ml/ounce. therefore, a gallon has about 75,700 drops ((20*29.57)*128 ounces/gallon), and about 13.21 gallons would therefore be 1,000,000 drops. So to make a solution of 0.1 parts per million, you would add one drop to 132 gallons.

Finally, ozone is a strong oxidizer, and many materials, including rubber & some plastics deteriorate rapidly when exposed to Ozone.
 

imported_chrisbtx

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Those California Scents cans for the car have always worked well for me. I have a Camaro and my T-tops tend to leak, creating bad mildew smell in the type of weather Houston throws at you. I loved the coconut one... people would always get in my car and go "Do you have Coconut Rum in here?" I really like that scent... girls seem to love it too . Haven't been able to find the coconut scent for the past 4 or so months though. Sucks....
 

buzzer

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"I find that using my steam cleaner actually adds to the smell"

OUCH! Oh, wait. You mean on carpet.
 
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