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Best way to remove smoke smell and ash from the interior? Thanks!

taipeichris

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Hi Guys,
What's the best way to remove the smoke smell and ash from my interior? I only have front seats, a dash pad and bedliner but that ash wouldn't hose out and it smells like I was cook'n franks and smores from the front seat.
Thank you!
:cool:
 

JGbronc

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Hi Guys,
What's the best way to remove the smoke smell and ash from my interior? I only have front seats, a dash pad and bedliner but that ash wouldn't hose out and it smells like I was cook'n franks and smores from the front seat.
Thank you!
:cool:

Get some coffee grains, put them in a plastic bag and leave it inside with the windows up. I've used this before to get rid of the cigarette smoke smell so it might work for this as well.
 

rspd505

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Try FreshWave it is an odor eliminating gel. It traps odors in the gel, not just cover it up. It's made local to me and I have used it for mildew smell. It works great. This is the website.

FreshWaveWorks.com
 

wsager

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I had a detail shop take a car I bought and use an ozone generator in the car in a garage. They left it overnight. It was bad and no smells afterward, nor did smells return for the 3 years that we owned that car. Didn't cost to much.
 

jmangi62

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This stuff worked good for me, its cheap and on ebay. ;D
 

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Remos69

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Same company as above, but a spray not a bomb. Used it on interior of a car and worked well... Dakota Non-Smoke Odor Eliminator
 

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Cortez

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I had a detail shop take a car I bought and use an ozone generator in the car in a garage. They left it overnight. It was bad and no smells afterward, nor did smells return for the 3 years that we owned that car. Didn't cost to much.

X2 on the ozone treatment it's amazing. I bought a used car that was owned by a smoker and it was ozone treated, no smoke smell at all. I rented a house for awhile that previously had a potbelly pig in it, smell absolutely horrible...I refused to move in, but after ozone treating for 3 days it was no problem.
 

AxlesUp

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we use an ozone generator at work for used cars it works great. dryers sheets under the seats help a lot too especially if you use some ozium or frebreeze with it.
 

73azbronco

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I say first high pressure air hose and blow it out as best you can, then vacuum everything, then Wife says sprinkle baking soda all over it, rub it around, let it sit a day, then vacuum. Then ozium. Then fresh air in the sun. Then time.
 

KBUCK1

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Do the ozone. I bought an ozone generator big enough to do a car in 15 minutes. For less than 50 dollars.
 

fatboy

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Do the ozone. I bought an ozone generator big enough to do a car in 15 minutes. For less than 50 dollars.

Details please. I have bought many used cars that were smoker vehicles. The detail shop at the dealer uses an ozone generator to remove the smell and it works amazingly well. For $50 I would put one on the shelf off my garage.

PS: glad all you have is a smoke issue considering the news has half of California burned to the ground!
 
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taipeichris

taipeichris

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Hi Guys,
Thanks for the info. So the top was off and our street is in one of the brush fires areas. I recently cleaned the old paint and waxed the snot out of it so the ash rinsed off the white paint easily. The interior is the problem. I hosed out the interior, used car wash soap and a big push broom with hot water to scrub the bedliner and a hand brush with warm water for the seats. The problem is the interior still smells like a fire pit. Maybe in a few weeks it will air out. Thankfully this is my biggest problem and nothing was lost in the fire.
Happy Sunday!
:cool:
 

DirtDonk

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A little closer and you could almost have baked the chicken right in place!
Glad that's all ya got too Chris. Sorry you were that close.
Then again... Lots of people ended up being pretty close to one or more of them!

Great suggestions from the crew too. I think they'd all be successful. Seen the ozone generators used in hotel rooms too, where someone didn't quite understand the smoking rules.

Good luck.

Paul
 

markw

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Probably a lot of people down your way would like to know this right now! If they have an interior to clean.....
 

Bronco Junkie

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A little closer and you could almost have baked the chicken right in place!
Glad that's all ya got too Chris. Sorry you were that close.
Then again... Lots of people ended up being pretty close to one or more of them!

Great suggestions from the crew too. I think they'd all be successful. Seen the ozone generators used in hotel rooms too, where someone didn't quite understand the smoking rules.

Good luck.

Paul

Tell me about it. Fire came right to my back wall!! My house and my car smell like a 70's ashtray.
 

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