sounds rediculous, but, any suggestions one getting a funky smell out of your car?

 

Shampoo the interior and then hang about 50 airfreshners on your rear view mirror!

 

If I may ask, what smell are you talking about? A$$?

Might I suggest like Myers said a shampooing of the interior with a...ah crap i can't think of it right now, it's was a gift and it's a small wet vaccum cleaner. It's like a Bissel or something like that, but it's cheap and effective. Did my old Runner with it and a really funky ass smell (no not from me) went away.

If not, Fabreez the entire interior...

 

When I first got my rig it stunk & stank like Big Dog.
The previous owner use to ride with a dog in the rig at times.
I also have the dog nail scratches on my window tint in places.

I bought a small steam cleaner that week and went to town on the seats & carpets.
This was in November of '98, so the next day going too work I had to sit on a towel as the seats were still wet.
But the smell was totally gone.

Also try spraying some Lysol from outside into your vents on your hood, and have the heater controls set on and to bring in fresh air through the vents.

That should kill any fungus and bacteria growing in there.

 

I had a GF who hooked me on Febreeze, yea I know, its not the "manliest" thing you could use BUT it works like a motha and is EASY and CHEAP..

 

Febreeze is the way to go, mine was full of stale cigarettes smell when I got it and that took it right out, sprayed everything including the headliner.

 

I also have to agree with the Febreeze. My last Toyota, a Tacoma started smelling. Febreeze worked magic in it and brought it back to life

 

dude, i get a funky smell in my truck too!... when it rains! when my truck sits out in the rain, and i get in it the next morning, it smells like... almost like rotten food, or like old wet rag. YECH!!! OMG>.... i dont know wat it is. i searched my truck for old food that might have fallen, but nothing!

AHHH!

 

thats exactly the smell, hah, its horrible, i just came back from out of town, hoping it would dissipate, but, it hasnt. im still gonna try the fabreeze method. thanks for all the input guys

 

You uh.....been pickin up any strange women lately??



You might want to look for water getting into the vehicle and wetting the padding under your floor carpet. I dont know what that stuff is made of, but it will stink something awful when wet. I had a car that would get water splashed into the speedometer cable gromet when it rained and it would wet the padding under the carpet. I could not tell cause the carpet has a waterproof coating under it so water from your shoes wont soak through to the padding and water in the padding wont soak through to the carpet, but it would reek bad. Found the water leak, fixed it, stink gone and never came back. I did have to pull the carpet up and pull out the padding and let it dry though.