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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... |
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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. |
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"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. |
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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... |
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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!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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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. |
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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. |
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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... |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 @ |
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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 |
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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! |
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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. |
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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! |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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! |
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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. |
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"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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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... |
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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... |
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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? |
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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... |
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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 |
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In article ,
"Stormin Mormon" wrote: I tell em, and let em be offended. So the mormon god loves everyone except smokers, I assume? |
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"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 |
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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... |
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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. |
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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. |
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