I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I
need to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and did an
eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate
enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining
quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual with
these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting closed for
several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up,
or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect part
of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent from
the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I flipped
over)

Does simple mold ever smell like decomp?

If I leave it parked outside for a month and drive the spare car, will
the problem eventually solve itself?

--
aem sends...

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:25:25 GMT, aemeijers wrote:
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I
need to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and did an

You need to locate where the smell is coming from.
Open it up and air it out then come back and go a sniffing.


you can clean the carpets effectively with boiling water and a shopvac.

"aemeijers" wrote in message
...
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I need
to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and did an eyeball
inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate enough to pull
the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining quarter-bottle of
Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual with these things, smell
is worst after van has been sitting closed for several hours. Smell
arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up, or
windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect part of
carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent from the
dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I flipped over)

You didn't happen to have a leaking baby bottle in it, did you? That can be
ghastly.

Cheri wrote:
"aemeijers" wrote in message
...
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what
the best recommended product was. I think something died in my van,
and I need to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and did
an eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate
enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining
quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual
with these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting closed
for several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows
up, or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect
part of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent
from the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I
flipped over)

You didn't happen to have a leaking baby bottle in it, did you? That can
be ghastly.

Nope, I'm a single male. No little ones ever ride in there. (I needed a
hauling vehicle, and a pickup won't fit in my garage. The removable
seats usually aren't in it, but I had to put them back in to make room
for the snow blower in the garage.)

--
aem sends...

StepfanKing wrote:
Push it over a cliff.
Only if you are standing at the bottom.

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:49:10 -0700, Cheri wrote:

"aemeijers" wrote in message
...
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I need
to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and did an eyeball
inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate enough to pull
the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining quarter-bottle of
Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual with these things, smell
is worst after van has been sitting closed for several hours. Smell
arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up, or
windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect part of
carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent from the
dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I flipped over)

You didn't happen to have a leaking baby bottle in it, did you? That can be
ghastly.

LOL! We had a car come into the detailing shop as a trade in, a nice Lexus
300, IIRC, and did a good cleaning. But it had this awful *smell*. We used
an extractor on the seats and the carpets, and set off a 'stink bomb' that
is supposed to remove (or at least cover over) smells, and then ran the
ionizer on it for hours. Next day we came in and opened it up and it STILL
stunk to high heaven. We cleaned it with everything we had, and ran the
ionizer overnight, all night. Smelled good when we came in, but an hour
after removing the ionizer the smell was back again. I went for lunch, and
when I came back the shop foreman, who had started on the car originally,
said, "Hey, JJ, check this out!" On his desk was a milk carton. He just
opened it up on his desk and we all almost gagged! It was shoved *WAY*
under the seat and could only be found by crawling in the back seat with
your head to the floor...

PHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:25:25 +0000, aemeijers wrote:

I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I
need to de-stink it.

Did you try checking the undercarriage? You might have some road kill
wedged in somewhere.

How is the weather in your location, warm enough for flies? If so, maybe
their comings and goings could lead you to the source of the stench.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up,
or windows down?

Assuming dry weather, windows down, I would think.

--
Tony Sivori
Due to spam, I'm filtering all Google Groups posters.

aemeijers wrote:
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I
need to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and did an
eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate
enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining
quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual with
these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting closed for
several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up,
or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect part
of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent from
the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I flipped
over)

Does simple mold ever smell like decomp?

If I leave it parked outside for a month and drive the spare car, will
the problem eventually solve itself?

--
aem sends...

Did you check the trunk and under the hood for dead animals? Take
carpet out of the trunk to wash? If no animals, it is most likely
spills or dropped food...had a leaky package from grocery store? One of
the worst food smells, from my experience, is rotten potato. If no
material is found, I would flood the carpet on the floor a couple of
times, let it soak an hour or so, and remove thoroughly with wet vac.
Then keep car open on a nice sunny day to dry out.

In article , aemeijers wrote:
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I
need to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and did an
eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate
enough to pull the carpets and interior panels.

Might need to pull the ventilation ducts under the dash.

Used up my remaining
quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped.

It didn't.

As usual with
these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting closed for
several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

After the corpse thawed out, probably...

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up,
or windows down?

Down, of course -- how else do you expect the smell to leave?

And what is best product to saturate the suspect part
of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent from
the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I flipped
over)

You're going about this wrong. You need to locate and remove the source of the
stench, then thoroughly clean the contaminated part(s). Soap and water will do
just fine. Randomly spritzing odor-"removal" products (which really are simply
odor-*masking* products) isn't going to help.

Activated charcoal (available anywhere that sells aquarium supplies) actually
absorbs odors. Find the source of the stink, remove it, clean the affected
parts, then spread activated charcoal around the area. Vacuum the charcoal up
in a week.

Does simple mold ever smell like decomp?

No.

If I leave it parked outside for a month and drive the spare car, will
the problem eventually solve itself?

Oh, eventually, sure -- but I doubt a month will do it. Two or three years,
maybe...

On Mar 19, 10:25*pm, aemeijers wrote:
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I
need to de-stink it. I pulled the *removable seats loose and did an
eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate
enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining
quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual with
these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting closed for
several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up,
or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect part
of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent from
the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I flipped
over)

Does simple mold ever smell like decomp?

If I leave it parked outside for a month and drive the spare car, will
the problem eventually solve itself?

--
aem sends...

I saw an air filter that had a animal nest in it, Ive had squirrels
under my hood, find what stinks or it maybe many many months for it to
go away, what does it smell like.

On Mar 20, 9:09*am, ransley wrote:
On Mar 19, 10:25*pm, aemeijers wrote:





I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I
need to de-stink it. I pulled the *removable seats loose and did an
eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate
enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining
quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual with
these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting closed for
several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up,
or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect part
of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent from
the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I flipped
over)

Does simple mold ever smell like decomp?

If I leave it parked outside for a month and drive the spare car, will
the problem eventually solve itself?

--
aem sends...

I saw an air filter that had a animal nest in it, Ive had squirrels
under my hood, find what stinks or it maybe many many months for it to
go away, what does it smell like.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Many years ago a newly sold Chrysler/Dodge car was found to have the
egg lunch sandwiches of a production line worker left in a door!

The local dealer pretty well took the car interior apart before they
were found at the bottom of a door below the window mechanism.

But the worst car smell in recent was when we turned around on the
highway and went back to look at a pickup 'featured' at an auto
dealer's location at a very good price.

Mileage was reasonable, external condition very good. But when we
opened the door the smell was awful and obvious; the previous owner/
driver had been a chain smoker!

Even the headline looked stained and would have to be replaced! The
door liners, seats, everything inside, stunk.
Heard afterwards, since this is not that big a community, that the
owner had died of lung cancer in his late 40s or early
50s; .............. not surprised. In fact that he lived THAT long!

Here, the cost to a single 20 pack/day smoker is now equivalent to a
car payment. Or one could be driving a BMW or Mercedes instead of a
Chev. So smoking makes no sense.

on 3/19/2009 11:25 PM (ET) aemeijers wrote the following:
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what
the best recommended product was. I think something died in my van,
and I need to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and did
an eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate
enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining
quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual
with these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting closed
for several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows
up, or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect
part of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent
from the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I
flipped over)

Does simple mold ever smell like decomp?

If I leave it parked outside for a month and drive the spare car, will
the problem eventually solve itself?

--
aem sends...
I've read the other responses but can offer some more suggestions. Check
the engine air filter for dead chipmunks, if you don't have a cold air
type filter. They like to build nests in there. The one in my air
cleaner chewed up the paper filter to build a nest and left a bunch of
acorn shells in there.
Make sure there are no dead wet leaves and debris in the heater. Also
check that the heater drain (which drains into the engine compartment)
is not plugged with debris. Mine was clogged so badly one time that
water had filled the heater blower compartment and leaked onto the carpet.

--

Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
To email, remove the double zeroes after @

On Mar 19, 11:25*pm, aemeijers wrote:
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I
need to de-stink it. I pulled the *removable seats loose and did an
eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate
enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining
quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual with
these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting closed for
several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up,
or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect part
of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent from
the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I flipped
over)

Does simple mold ever smell like decomp?

If I leave it parked outside for a month and drive the spare car, will
the problem eventually solve itself?

If it is in fact a dead critter, nothing but removal of the little
rodent corpse will de-stinkify it. Had a similar issue in my parents'
basement once upon a time... otherwise you'll have to wait for it to
completely decompose, which could take months.

nate

On Mar 19, 11:25*pm, aemeijers wrote:
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I
need to de-stink it. I pulled the *removable seats loose and did an
eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate
enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining
quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual with
these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting closed for
several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up,
or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect part
of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent from
the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I flipped
over)

Does simple mold ever smell like decomp?

If I leave it parked outside for a month and drive the spare car, will
the problem eventually solve itself?

--
aem sends...

Check behind the dash, in the ducts as well.

Boy this reminds me of that Seinfeld episode where Jerry's car got
some BO and he couldn't get it out. He wound up giving the car away
after he couldn't sell it.

Good luck!

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:25:25 GMT, aemeijers wrote:

I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I
need to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and did an
eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate
enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining
quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual with
these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting closed for
several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up,
or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect part
of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent from
the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I flipped
over)

Does simple mold ever smell like decomp?

If I leave it parked outside for a month and drive the spare car, will
the problem eventually solve itself?


Remove panels, carpeting, etc. You may find the culprit. Clean the
carpeting, ductwork, etc and reinstall.

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:25:25 +0000, aemeijers wrote:

I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I
need to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and did an
eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate
enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining
quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual with
these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting closed for
several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up,
or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect part
of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent from
the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I flipped
over)

Does simple mold ever smell like decomp?

If I leave it parked outside for a month and drive the spare car, will
the problem eventually solve itself?

Willshak and ransley had some good comments, add one: the heater blower
cage. They like to make nests in there, too.

You may have to start removing panels, unless you can find the 'snack' one
of the kids left somewhere!

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:26:30 -0700 (PDT), stan
wrote:

....

Here, the cost to a single 20 pack/day smoker is now equivalent to a
car payment. Or one could be driving a BMW or Mercedes instead of a
Chev. So smoking makes no sense.

When house hunting, car shopping, (or even a Friday night hot date) I
quietly skip over those having a tobacco odor. No sense saying why,
as this can offend some.

Could be mold also. Some molds will give off really bad odors. If you
left a window open in the rain, you could have it in your carpet. Use
vinegar or backing soda in your wash water. (Do not use both - they tend
to go boom when put together. And do not use Bleach or ammonia with
either of them, so read your labels.)


--
Dymphna
Message Origin: TRAVEL.com

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:50:36 -0400, Tony Sivori
wrote:

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:25:25 +0000, aemeijers wrote:

I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I
need to de-stink it.

Did you try checking the undercarriage? You might have some road kill
wedged in somewhere.

How is the weather in your location, warm enough for flies? If so, maybe
their comings and goings could lead you to the source of the stench.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up,
or windows down?

Assuming dry weather, windows down, I would think.


Use a mild H2O2 (Hydrogen peroxide) solution on the rugs, and try an
ozone-ator overnight. A simple hot water or steem cleaner GENERALLY
cannot sterilize the carpet and underpad - where a lot of smells
originate.

My brother bought a Sable wagon. The owner had loaded it with garbage
to go to the dump, then died. Car sat for several months. IT
STUNK!!!!!!.

He bought it cheap enough that he couldn't loose, even breaking it
down for parts. Only had a few thousand KM on it, so he cleaned it up.
It had the ozone in it about 4 times - doesn't smell bad now at all -
2 years later.

The coil cleaner I use on AC coils does a nice job on
smokers film. Cleaning window unit coils and such, it really
takes the brown film off.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"stan" wrote in message
...

Mileage was reasonable, external condition very good. But
when we
opened the door the smell was awful and obvious; the
previous owner/
driver had been a chain smoker!

wrote:
aemeijers wrote:
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what
the best recommended product was. I think something died in my van,
and I need to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and did
an eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate
enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining
quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual
with these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting closed
for several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows
up, or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect
part of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent
from the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I
flipped over)

Does simple mold ever smell like decomp?

If I leave it parked outside for a month and drive the spare car, will
the problem eventually solve itself?

--
aem sends...

Did you check the trunk and under the hood for dead animals? Take
carpet out of the trunk to wash? If no animals, it is most likely
spills or dropped food...had a leaky package from grocery store? One of
the worst food smells, from my experience, is rotten potato. If no
material is found, I would flood the carpet on the floor a couple of
times, let it soak an hour or so, and remove thoroughly with wet vac.
Then keep car open on a nice sunny day to dry out.

It's a VAN- no trunk. No smell under hood, or under dash, or from dash
vents. It could be an old winter spill, since The Thaw only came a few
days ago around here, but I don't eat in the car, and I haul the grocery
bags in plastic busboy tubs, just to prevent things falling out and
rolling away. (BTDT)

Stopped on way home from work today, and bought another jug of
extra-strength Febreze, and dosed it all again, and it seems to be
helping some. Van is sitting in sunlight with windows down right now-
have to remember to put it away come dark so nothing else climbs in.

--
aem sends...

ktos wrote:
aemeijers wrote in
:

Cheri wrote:
"aemeijers" wrote in message
...
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what
the best recommended product was. I think something died in my van,
and I need to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and
did an eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet
desperate enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my
remaining quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped.
As usual with these things, smell is worst after van has been
sitting closed for several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell
a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows
up, or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the
suspect part of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No
stink apparent from the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or
underside of the seats I flipped over)
You didn't happen to have a leaking baby bottle in it, did you? That
can be ghastly.
Nope, I'm a single male. No little ones ever ride in there. (I needed
a hauling vehicle, and a pickup won't fit in my garage. The removable
seats usually aren't in it, but I had to put them back in to make room
for the snow blower in the garage.)

--
aem sends...


YOU stink. It's not the vehicle.
You're too late- StepfanKing already claimed the 'dumb comments' duty
for this thread.

Here's my guess;

If it's a vehicle that you may not drive every day, and maybe even if you
do.
We're coming off of winter, the mouse colony that took up residence in the
heater box froze to death one very cold night. Now that it's warming up
out, they are starting to rot. Also, they **** in their nests, and it makes
for some horrendous stinking when you are trying to get warm from that
heater. If this is the case, you'll need to pull the heater duct hoses
loose so you can see in the heater box to get the nest out. You may also
need to pull the blower loose in the engine compartment side, because the
whole mess may be on that side of the heater core. Once you remove the
nest, wash out the box with just about anything and the smell will quickly
begin to fade, as long as you got it all. You know, mice simply love jute,
which is found on the backside of most vehicle carpets, and even vinyl floor
mats. It makes excellent nesting material.

HTH, Lefty

"aemeijers" wrote in message
...
wrote:
aemeijers wrote:
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I
need to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and did an
eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate
enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining
quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual with
these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting closed for
several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up,
or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect part
of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent from
the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I flipped
over)

Does simple mold ever smell like decomp?

If I leave it parked outside for a month and drive the spare car, will
the problem eventually solve itself?

--
aem sends...

Did you check the trunk and under the hood for dead animals? Take carpet
out of the trunk to wash? If no animals, it is most likely spills or
dropped food...had a leaky package from grocery store? One of the worst
food smells, from my experience, is rotten potato. If no material is
found, I would flood the carpet on the floor a couple of times, let it
soak an hour or so, and remove thoroughly with wet vac. Then keep car
open on a nice sunny day to dry out.

It's a VAN- no trunk. No smell under hood, or under dash, or from dash
vents. It could be an old winter spill, since The Thaw only came a few
days ago around here, but I don't eat in the car, and I haul the grocery
bags in plastic busboy tubs, just to prevent things falling out and
rolling away. (BTDT)

Stopped on way home from work today, and bought another jug of
extra-strength Febreze, and dosed it all again, and it seems to be helping
some. Van is sitting in sunlight with windows down right now- have to
remember to put it away come dark so nothing else climbs in.

--
aem sends...

"m6onz5a" wrote

snip
--
aem sends...

Check behind the dash, in the ducts as well.

Boy this reminds me of that Seinfeld episode where Jerry's car got
some BO and he couldn't get it out. He wound up giving the car away
after he couldn't sell it.



Yeah, the valet. That was a funny one.

On Mar 19, 10:25*pm, aemeijers wrote:
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I
need to de-stink it. I pulled the *removable seats loose and did an
eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate
enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining
quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual with
these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting closed for
several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up,
or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect part
of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent from
the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I flipped
over)

Does simple mold ever smell like decomp?

If I leave it parked outside for a month and drive the spare car, will
the problem eventually solve itself?

--
aem sends...

You likely have a dead mouse in the heating ductwork or blower. Used
to be a common problem in our shop when the sports car owners brought
their toys out of storage in the spring. Datsun 240/260Z's were the
worst, Triumph's right behind. Keep looking and good luck.

Joe

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:25:25 GMT, aemeijers wrote:

Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

I bet if you used a dog, it may locate the odor. "Willow", a chocolate
Lab visited our house recently. She dug up some of my dog's toys -
buried rib bones and raw hides

Watch the dog when in the van and observe where she may focus and
smell.

Baking Soda on the carpet, a sitting bowl of vinegar will also take
out some orders.

Oren wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:25:25 GMT, aemeijers wrote:

Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

I bet if you used a dog, it may locate the odor. "Willow", a chocolate
Lab visited our house recently. She dug up some of my dog's toys -
buried rib bones and raw hides

Watch the dog when in the van and observe where she may focus and
smell.

Baking Soda on the carpet, a sitting bowl of vinegar will also take
out some orders.

We had a bird fall down our chimney last evening, thankfully before it was
too dark for my aged eyes to cope. Oh blanketty blank, thought I. I've been
here before several times. I got all the kit together to remove the gas fire
and the blanking board around the chimney. Flutter, flutter as I was trying
to help the poor beastie escape.

Here on the Right Side of The Pond there is now some doubt as to whether I
should have legally disconnected the gas pipe prior to lifting the fire off
the wall ( but blow that, I shall). I was about to remove the sealed backing
plate (which would have caused serious hassle in reinstallation, when the
bird flew out through the small ventillation gap and went directly out of
the previously opened patio door. No mess or crap in the house! Success.

Job done, fire reinstalled and gas reconnected.

Our wolf was then allowed into the room and immediately focussed upon the
fire and knew there were odd issues that he should resolve. I smiled
watching him in puzzlement.

I tell em, and let em be offended.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"Phisherman" wrote in message
...

When house hunting, car shopping, (or even a Friday night
hot date) I
quietly skip over those having a tobacco odor. No sense
saying why,
as this can offend some.

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:25:25 GMT, aemeijers wrote:

I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I

I wouldn't waste my time cleaning things until I found where the smell
was coming from. Airing it out that someone said is agood idea. If
you can't find any smell after that, put your nose really close to
things, a half or a hundredth of an inch, and also come back in 10
minutes, 20, 30 until you do start to smell it and then follow the
smell to the source.

They did some game somewhere where they had people acting like dogs
and tracking down chocolate syrump or soemthing on the ground,
invisible, and they quite good at it. Following a trail, left here,
right there. Just random people. You can do it too.

Joe wrote:
On Mar 19, 10:25 pm, aemeijers wrote:
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I
need to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and did an
eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate
enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining
quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual with
these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting closed for
several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up,
or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect part
of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent from
the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I flipped
over)

Does simple mold ever smell like decomp?

If I leave it parked outside for a month and drive the spare car, will
the problem eventually solve itself?

--
aem sends...

You likely have a dead mouse in the heating ductwork or blower. Used
to be a common problem in our shop when the sports car owners brought
their toys out of storage in the spring. Datsun 240/260Z's were the
worst, Triumph's right behind. Keep looking and good luck.

Joe

But the air coming out of the ducts doesn't stink! That is what has me
confused. I only suspected ducts because there are floor ducts that come
out under the front seats. I think more likely the damn thing crawled
down one of the various slits where the hardpoints come through the
carpet, and got wedged in.

--
aem sends...

mm wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:25:25 GMT, aemeijers wrote:

I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I

I wouldn't waste my time cleaning things until I found where the smell
was coming from. Airing it out that someone said is agood idea. If
you can't find any smell after that, put your nose really close to
things, a half or a hundredth of an inch, and also come back in 10
minutes, 20, 30 until you do start to smell it and then follow the
smell to the source.

They did some game somewhere where they had people acting like dogs
and tracking down chocolate syrump or soemthing on the ground,
invisible, and they quite good at it. Following a trail, left here,
right there. Just random people. You can do it too.

Easy for a non-allergy-sufferer to say! :^/

My sinuses have been acting up for a month, so it is a damn miracle I
noticed the stink at all.

--
aem sends...

aemeijers wrote:
Joe wrote:
On Mar 19, 10:25 pm, aemeijers wrote:
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what
the best recommended product was. I think something died in my van,
and I need to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and
did an eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet
desperate enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up
my remaining quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it
helped. As usual with these things, smell is worst after van has
been sitting closed for several hours. Smell arrived with the warm
spell a couple days ago. Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in
sunshine with windows
up, or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the
suspect part of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No
stink apparent from the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or
underside of the seats I flipped over)

Does simple mold ever smell like decomp?

If I leave it parked outside for a month and drive the spare car,
will the problem eventually solve itself?

--
aem sends...

You likely have a dead mouse in the heating ductwork or blower. Used
to be a common problem in our shop when the sports car owners brought
their toys out of storage in the spring. Datsun 240/260Z's were the
worst, Triumph's right behind. Keep looking and good luck.

Joe

But the air coming out of the ducts doesn't stink! That is what has me
confused. I only suspected ducts because there are floor ducts that
come out under the front seats. I think more likely the damn thing
crawled down one of the various slits where the hardpoints come
through the carpet, and got wedged in.

I've not followed this from the start. Are you certain that you did not
carry something into the vehicle on your feet during the freezing period?

Clot wrote:
aemeijers wrote:
Joe wrote:
On Mar 19, 10:25 pm, aemeijers wrote:
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what
the best recommended product was. I think something died in my van,
and I need to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and
did an eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet
desperate enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up
my remaining quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it
helped. As usual with these things, smell is worst after van has
been sitting closed for several hours. Smell arrived with the warm
spell a couple days ago. Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in
sunshine with windows
up, or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the
suspect part of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No
stink apparent from the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or
underside of the seats I flipped over)

Does simple mold ever smell like decomp?

If I leave it parked outside for a month and drive the spare car,
will the problem eventually solve itself?

--
aem sends...
You likely have a dead mouse in the heating ductwork or blower. Used
to be a common problem in our shop when the sports car owners brought
their toys out of storage in the spring. Datsun 240/260Z's were the
worst, Triumph's right behind. Keep looking and good luck.

Joe
But the air coming out of the ducts doesn't stink! That is what has me
confused. I only suspected ducts because there are floor ducts that
come out under the front seats. I think more likely the damn thing
crawled down one of the various slits where the hardpoints come
through the carpet, and got wedged in.

I've not followed this from the start. Are you certain that you did not
carry something into the vehicle on your feet during the freezing period?


Not absolutely, and that is my game plan for tomorrow, if it gets above
50 degrees- coin-op car wash the removable mats, and get a large spray
can of the vacuum-out shampoo for the non-removable carpet. If that
seems to help, take the car to a detail shop and get the interior
steamed, or whatever.

Old cop cars and old pickup trucks had it right- anything other than a
rubber floor in a work vehicle is a mistake...

--
aem sends...

stan wrote:
Here, the cost to a single 20 pack/day smoker is now
equivalent to a
car payment. Or one could be driving a BMW or Mercedes instead of a
Chev. So smoking makes no sense.

400 cigarettes a day does seem excessive.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

In article ,
"Stormin Mormon" wrote:

I tell em, and let em be offended.

So the mormon god loves everyone except smokers, I assume?

"Cheri" wrote in message
...
"aemeijers" wrote in message
...
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I
need to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and did an
eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate enough
to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining
quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual with
these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting closed for
several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up,
or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect part of
carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent from the
dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I flipped
over)

You didn't happen to have a leaking baby bottle in it, did you? That can
be ghastly.

I had a mouse climb into my 6 month old Corvette during winter storage and
die, leaving an incredible odor in the Spring when I came to take the car
out of storage.

I ultimately found only 1 way to get rid of the odor based on an excellent
recommendation here on this newsgroup. The solution was to find an enzymatic
odor eliminator used for carpet cleaning, made by a company I believe was
called "Rug Doctor". It is an odorless, clear liquid sold alongside rug
shampoo machines to remove pet odors, etc. It is sold in small
reddish-orange bottles, as are the other carpet chemicals from the same
company (stain remover, shampoo).

It took 3 applications, but the odor is now entirely gone. My earlier
attempts with Fabreeze and other fragrances made the problem much worse and
should never have been used.

Smarty

Smarty wrote:
"Cheri" wrote in message
...
"aemeijers" wrote in message
...
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what
the best recommended product was. I think something died in my van,
and I need to de-stink it. I pulled the removable seats loose and
did an eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet
desperate enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my
remaining quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped.
As usual with these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting
closed for several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple
days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows
up, or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect
part of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink
apparent from the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of
the seats I flipped over)

You didn't happen to have a leaking baby bottle in it, did you? That
can be ghastly.

I had a mouse climb into my 6 month old Corvette during winter storage
and die, leaving an incredible odor in the Spring when I came to take
the car out of storage.

I ultimately found only 1 way to get rid of the odor based on an
excellent recommendation here on this newsgroup. The solution was to
find an enzymatic odor eliminator used for carpet cleaning, made by a
company I believe was called "Rug Doctor". It is an odorless, clear
liquid sold alongside rug shampoo machines to remove pet odors, etc. It
is sold in small reddish-orange bottles, as are the other carpet
chemicals from the same company (stain remover, shampoo).

It took 3 applications, but the odor is now entirely gone. My earlier
attempts with Fabreeze and other fragrances made the problem much worse
and should never have been used.

I'll look for it, but I will note that the Febreeze I used was the
unscented kind. It isn't just perfume. The stuff in it supposedly hooks
on to the stinky compounds, and chemically changes them to non-stinky.
Leastways, according to their web site. And it has helped a lot already.

--
aem sends...

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:31:07 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

The coil cleaner I use on AC coils does a nice job on
smokers film. Cleaning window unit coils and such, it really
takes the brown film off.


I bought a '65 Rambler Classic back in 1972 - the chrome on the dash
looked like brass and the headliner was brown. It also had tinted
windows. (It was cheap - bought it for $100). A gallon of "FANTASTIC"
later the headliner was white, the chrome was silver, the seats and
carpets didn't stink any more, and even the windows were clean. Gotta
be REAL carefull with Fantastic on glass though!!!!!

I remeber laying the fiber headliner out on the driveway, soaking it
with Fantastic, and hosing it down with the garden hose about 4 times,
with coffee-coloured water flowing down the driveway.

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:31:06 -0700 (PDT), Joe wrote:

On Mar 19, 10:25Â*pm, aemeijers wrote:
I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the
best recommended product was. I think something died in my van, and I
need to de-stink it. I pulled the Â*removable seats loose and did an
eyeball inspection, but found no little corpses. Not yet desperate
enough to pull the carpets and interior panels. Used up my remaining
quarter-bottle of Febreeze, too soon to tell if it helped. As usual with
these things, smell is worst after van has been sitting closed for
several hours. Smell arrived with the warm spell a couple days ago.

Will it dry up faster if I leave it parked in sunshine with windows up,
or windows down? And what is best product to saturate the suspect part
of carpets and end of floor heater ducts with? (No stink apparent from
the dash ducts, or seating surfaces, or underside of the seats I flipped
over)

Does simple mold ever smell like decomp?

If I leave it parked outside for a month and drive the spare car, will
the problem eventually solve itself?

--
aem sends...

You likely have a dead mouse in the heating ductwork or blower. Used
to be a common problem in our shop when the sports car owners brought
their toys out of storage in the spring. Datsun 240/260Z's were the
worst, Triumph's right behind. Keep looking and good luck.

Joe
Little buggers used to love to die inside the seat upholstery too.
Never forget my 28 Chevy - had a nest of dead RATS behind the seat
when I got it.

wrote in
:

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:31:07 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

The coil cleaner I use on AC coils does a nice job on
smokers film. Cleaning window unit coils and such, it really
takes the brown film off.


I bought a '65 Rambler Classic back in 1972 - the chrome on the dash
looked like brass and the headliner was brown. It also had tinted
windows. (It was cheap - bought it for $100). A gallon of "FANTASTIC"
later the headliner was white, the chrome was silver, the seats and
carpets didn't stink any more, and even the windows were clean. Gotta
be REAL carefull with Fantastic on glass though!!!!!

I remeber laying the fiber headliner out on the driveway, soaking it
with Fantastic, and hosing it down with the garden hose about 4 times,
with coffee-coloured water flowing down the driveway.


just think what the previous owners lungs were like....or their teeth.
ECCCH!

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net