Help! I went down to my local Honda dealer and bought a used 2006 Honda Civic. When I drove it I thought I smelled something funny, but it wasn’t very strong. I thought it was a used car sitting around smell. I was a sucker. It got worse and worse and I finally identified it as smoke smell in t…

“Test Drive” another identical Honda Civic sans the aud ash tray aroma. Have your “swap party” standing by to swap out the “green” interior for the “smogged” interior. Then, return to dealer from the “test drive”.

Lots and lots of elbow grease and a variety of good old fashioned cleaning solutions (carpet shampoo, upholstery cleaner, and so forth). And I’m a little surprised that the dealer didn’t try that. An ionizer won’t do the trick. What’d they do, drive to Kragen and spend $2.99 for the thing? Holy cow…

i would start by getting it professionally detailed and ask them to do whatever they can, then you will have to decide if you can live with it.

Cigarette smoke permeates absolutely everything porous, including linings, padding, foam, upholstery…everything. It’s virtually impossible to get rid of it except via time…lots and lots and lots of time. Sorry.

You need to have the carpets and seats cleaned. Probably the headliner, too. A good detailing shop may have been there before. Call ahead and ask specifically what they will do to remove the smoke particles and nonvolatile residues from the cigarettes. You don’t need to know what solvents they u…

The same way your wife get dog smell out of the furniture! Lots of elbow grease. I once bought a smoker’s car and went through several upholstery shampoo kits (available at auto stores) before we go the smell out. The car was bought in the winter but we left the windows down when parked in the garag…

Ok, thanks. I’ll do that and take it to a good detailer (with a plan as suggested by tsanders) and then I’ll probably keep scrubbing it myself.

I’m going to do that and as suggested keep scrubbing on my own.

How do I get the strong smell of cigarette smoke out of a used car?

Maintenance/Repairs

Craig58 February 19, 2008, 10:42pm 8

I know some folks that have replaced all the soft interior pieces to clean up an otherwise nice car. Personally, I would never buy a smoky car unless it was valuable enough to clean up correctly. Fortunately, there a less smokers (alive) these days and most decent cars are now owned by non-smokers.

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How do I get the strong smell of cigarette smoke out of a used car?

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