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Dave(tm):
Hey all,

With our growing brood, I bought Mrs DTM an S-Max yesterday. The car is great, but was clearly owned by a smoker and doesn't smell to good. Anyone got any suggestions around how to rid this otherwise perfect car of this smell? It's driving me mad!

Thanks,
Dave

Scottymon:
I can highly recommend Dr.Beckmann's carpet cleaner for the seats, really brings them back and smells nice too.

Ricky123:
http://m.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Tobacco-Odors-in-Cars

There's a couple of good tips on there.

Also try one of those air con cleaning bomb things, basically close all the windows on the car, leave engine running and air con on full while on the recirculate function and leave one of the aircon cleaning bombs in there spraying away.

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=221825524472&globalID=EBAY-GB

Something like that. There plenty to choose from.

xjay1337:
Good luck.
Depends how bad it is.
EVERYTHING needs thorough vacuum.
All traces of ash etc need removing.
Headliner needs steam cleaning with added cleaning additives and odour enzyme type of chemicals (above the drivers head is where most of the smell soaks in as well as above your head to the rear drivers side window area)

Replacing the pollen filter spraying the pollen filter itself with loads of air freshining/odour eating stuff before installation.
Air conditioning bomb (full recirc, fog machine the car)
then you need an air treatment package which is a little sachet of some very horrible chemical which is left in a small tub in the middle of the car and it chemically cleans the air within the car, you can't go in it for about 8 hours during/after.

Even then it may still have some smell remaining but will be a lot better.

AJP:
My dad bought a 130 Passat a few years ago, really nice car, but the past owner was a cigar smoker..

The most vile odour imaginable. He tried all sorts - many of those posted in this thread - and it did nothing.

So... yeah, good luck.

Thankfully he managed to sell the car in the end. Would probably be even harder to sell these days smelling of cigars.. At least it wasn't a Rolls Royce.

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