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…

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…

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…

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…

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

I was afraid of that, I’ll try all the other suggestions though. Cigarette smoke is really miserable.

I didn’t realize it was smoky, I was a sucker, as I said in my posting. I agree with you, but I’ve got to try to get it to the point where I can stand it.

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

Maintenance/Repairs

ellen2 February 19, 2008, 11:32pm 10

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.

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

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