[DML] Re: that New Car smell

["yugoman" <mdrig@xxxx>]

I put Lexol on my seats now and then, it always has a nice leather smell
when I open a door!
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Lucas <lucas@xxxx>
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, March 11, 2000 7:04 PM
Subject: [DML] that New Car smell


>So, here's a topic that I don't believe we've covered yet:
>
>All old cars, no matter how well maintained, seem to end up smelling,
>well, old. Smells have a huge effect on how one perceives an
>environment, and cars are no exception. When I got my D, it must have
>had 20 of those little pine-trees scattered about--I can still smell
>their residue. Cars at car shows tend to smell like Armor-All. I
>don't want my D smelling like like Armor-All, and I certainly don't
>want it smelling like the pine-oil they used in the latrines back at
>summer camp. I want it to smell like a new car! So what are the
>secrets?
>
>I intend to eventually take out the seats and carpets and clean and
>shampoo everything thoroughly in an effort to get rid of the slightly
>musty smell that the pine trees were intended to cover up.
>
>But, whenever I turn on my heater, I get that "hot dust" smell (like
>when a forced-air furnace comes on for the first time in the fall).
>Is there anything to be done about this short of disassembling the
>whole heating/AC duct system?
>
>Even a perfect cleaning would at best get us back to "neutral", and
>as we all know, a new car smells far from neutral. I've tried various
>air freshener sprays labelled "new car" or "leather", but none of
>them were even close.
>
>I guess the real answer is new leather, which I will probably do
>sooner or later. But, if anyone knows any less expensive tricks, I'd
>appreciate hearing about them.
>
>--Pete Lucas
> VIN #6703
>
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