Old Car Smell - tips needed

[Ed Pies 0]

I am now a week into my VR6 ownership and all is immaculate ... apart from a few odour problems.

Now given that the car has done 140,000 miles I am sure many would wish that this was all that was wrong with their own vehicles, but things are a bit musty.

I wish you could buy an air fresher called 'new car interior', I don't want it to smell of vanilla, fresh pine or lemon with a hint of must. Currently I am getting 'eau de mini-cab' with hints of cheap air freshner and base notes of dust and mild sweat.

Any tips on getting the VR6 smelling as good as it sounds?

[blackmagicvr 7]

might be a good idea to have a full professianal interior valet?

all the carpets seats and head lining.

and there is an air freshner called new car scent by magic tree,blue in colour if i remember right.

[VR6Pete 1,455]

Yep, an interior valet should improve things...

Pete

[jesterwalker69 0]

I wish you could buy an air fresher called 'new car interior'' date='

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Lol you can! Magic Tree do it!

[xyber 1]

febreze works a treat, give it a good vac and a good air out with the windows left open, then all the damp will dry out aswell, fit a new pollen filter and an air freshner and you should be sorted

If you have aircon try and run it for a while to give that a blow through and dry out, every now and then I turn mine on full, spray a sh1t load of febreze in the air inside the car and close the doors and just let is suck through the system

[philbatesvr6 0]

i had this problem after buying some seats of some one :-d

but they needed a clean so i had my interior wet vac'ed and while it was damp i had my air con regassed so i bought one of those air con treatment canisters so i set that off and it smells as good as new now

[Earwig 89]

Also if you have Leather interior get a couple of new shammy leather's and chuck em under the seats ;-)

Fresh smell of leather all the time ! :-)

Mark.

[Ed Pies 0]

I had a rummage around under the sink last night, and caned a can of 1001 carpet foam over the whole interior, which has worked a treat in getting rid of the pong for now. Also the seat cloth now looks like new, as all the dust is out.

I think the next course of action is a full interior valet, or try and borrow a steam cleaner for the head liner, and a new set of carpet mats for £32 from VW.

A quick spruce with Autoglym's interior cleaner, also gives a nice lemon freshness.