4thStroke

I ended up hosing down the interior with Automotive Febreeze, let is sit for a couple days, then wiped down the car with Windex. I cant smell smoke any more. I hung a vanillaroma tree, and stocked the dash compartment with gum and that gives off a lot of smell.

Not sure if its just masked, or gone, but I cant smell it. I have leather seats, so shampooing those isnt an option.

We'll see how it is this summer, that'll really let me know. My girlfriends parents have a carpet shampooer, I would like to strip the interior, RAAMmat it, and shampoo it.

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07 Mazdaspeed3
91 Galant VR4 786/2000

jsaunders

Fabreeze or a cheap nock off seems to work- What I do is you are supposed to just let the febreeze sink in- but I spay and then use a clean towel and actually rub it into the seats/ carpet....... you will be amazed at the amount of dirt that you get up.

I hate the smell of smoke/smokers- my dad and cousin( both work with me) both smoke and even though they don't smoke in the trucks - there is still that after smell.
Joel

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07 XT Limited- white, STI TMIC, cat back,VF39

Benero

Place whatever container you may have full of moisted newspapers...yes I'm serious about this. Humid newspapers. Leave for a couple of hours.
The other thing you may try is an opened box of baking soda. Baking soda is used in refrigerators to absorb odors. I didn't read all of the posts in this thread so I don't know if anybody has given you this options.

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2000 Impreza RS
2007 Forester X

2StepsAhead

Febreeze wears out quickly for me, whoever owned my FXT before me had dogs...first I little green'ed the interior, I pulled the back seat out and vacuumed like crazy and the smell was gone for awhile. Then I left a box of baking soda in the car over night for a few nights and that seemed to knock out any remaining smell. Now once in awhile I get the smell on humid/wet days...I bought this big citrus air cleaner at Pep Boys and it seems to be working, not just covering up the smell like the air fresheners do.

Geezer

I had a smoker that I used to take to a treatment program at a distant hospital about once a week. When the poor guy finally passed away, the odor remained.

I found that if you take the carpets out and run a carpet steam cleaner over them using a detergent with a odor reducer in it (I use a Bissell product), this takes much of the odor out. That car also had fabric seats (I now have leather) and I used the upholstery attachment on the carpet steamer on them.

Once everything was dry, I just sprayed lots of Auto Freebreeze into all fabrics and again, let it dry. As I was waiting for it to dry, I used a good dose of Oxyclean and then Armor-All on all the hard surfaces.

The next day, there was not a trace of tobacco smell. Unfortunately the cloying smell of Freebreze lingered on, but once I had gagged a few times, and drove the car with windows open for awhile, that smell also disappeared.

You have to admit that tobacco smell is insidious! Once it has a foot-hold in your car it will hang around for the car's full lifetime unless you take some rigorous counter-measures.

Geezer

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Drives a 2009 Forester XS Ltd.

Sh1fted

In my experience Ozium works really great. Then again the scent of cigarette smoke is a different monster than that of burning plant matter. lol!

Ozium - Air Sanitizer, Air purifier and Air deodorizer