that smoke smell in the truck...

Thanks BHWife! I just thought there is NO WAY he could possibly get any good sleep on that piece of crap! I will have to look into it for him. Thanks so much for your advice!

 

Lol - y'all just reminded me of my first mattress.. only 3 years old (I'm assuming it came with the truck and wasn't swapped out for something from a Model T) and it had been abused cigarette burns, spills of I-don't-wanna-know, and sprung. I used a heavy-duty mattress pad to separate me from the I-don't-wanna-know, but I had to adopt a very limited number of sleeping positions to deal with the broken spring system.

I about danced for joy when I got to swap that truck out for another one.

 

We have a gel thing in our truck, it seems to help, doesn't have an overpowering smell. Next time I'm out, I'll see what its called and put it up here. Truck doesn't smell like a smoke house, but it still has the smell....just not as heavy. With 2 smokers in there it gets pretty hazy some times.

 

I smoke cigars on occasion, and they have this spray stuff in the shop I order from..it sits on the fabric like a foam. Dissolves after about 15 min. No scrubbing or anything. The first little bit, the "Fresh Spring Breeze" scent was aweful. Not very noticeable after the first day.

I think it works well. Like anything, Lather, rinse, repeat.

 

Walmart sells candles that "eats" smoke odor. I think it comes in can like car air freshners also. Also they sell a pet urine odor neutralizing spray that kills ANY smell in fabrics. Smells pretty good too, not all fofo like air freshners or febreez. I think Id spray it in the vents too to get rid of the smell.

 

Removing the odor of smoke from a car or truck​

You've heard all the ways to get rid of the smell out of that vehicle of yours but every one of them just tells you something that works temporarily because you did NOT clean the layer of nasty smoke and tar off and out of the carpets, seats, surfaces or the inside of the duct work!

That nasty habit gets circulated through the complete heater and A/C system and until it's been washed down you can put coffee grounds, apples, vinegar, charcoal, little smelly hangy things and run ionizers in the car or truck and all they will ever do is make it smell pretty for a day or so!

You have to WASH as many surfaces with a good cleaner as you can find! See list below.

The cloth stuff you'll need to get a good cleaner like Hoover carpet cleaner and a wet dry vacuum or a carpet cleaner with the attachments for curtains and sofas or just a big spray bottle filled with the cleaner, a hand held scrub brush and a wet dry vac to suck it all clean! For all the cloth things like headliner, seats, carpet, spray generously with the spray bottle filled with the carpet or fabric cleaner and scrub with the scrub brush like a carpet and upholstery cleaner does and then use the wet dry vacuum to suck it out. Start on the ceiling and work your way down to the seats then the floor.

Then Febreze it down when dry! That's ALL cloth covered surfaces like the bottom of the cabinets in that road tractor, the curtains if they have cloth on them and the webbing on the front of the cabinets if whoever spec'ed the truck was a cheap skate! You CAN remove those web curtains and put them in a washing machine if you want to! Spray the mattress if cloth, but if plastic then use the rag and Mr. Clean from the list below

This applies to cars and trucks!
You MUST clean the duct work. Have you ever looked at the windows of a smokers ride? See that pretty brown color? Ever been in a really nasty smokers ride that doesn't clean those windows for 2 or 3 weeks? Ever wonder how they can see? Well, now you know what just a few weeks of smoke and tar looks like on the windows! Image a years worth or more on the surface of the duct work! It builds up and all the crap you put on a pan on the floor or hang off the mirror isn't going to do squat for getting a years worth of skanky smell out of the duct work! Every time you turn on the hearer or A/C guess what you get a face full of? Secondhand stink and smoke!
Now for more!

Tools you need:
Needle nosed pliers
Small but strong flat head screw driver
Spray bottle with good sprayer
Wire coat hangar
Large rag
Heavy towel
Car sized wash sponge
5 gallon bucket
1 bottle of Febreze spray
Bottle of Mr. Clean with Febreze! You'll understand when you smell the open bottle! I have not found anything that works better!

Take the coat hanger and straighten it out. Then using the needle nosed pliers make a small loop in one end then place the large rag in it centered and then crimp the loop onto the rag so what you have looks like a patch for cleaning out a rifle barrel.

Look at the lovers on your A/C duct work. Do they come out? Use the small fatheaded screw driver to remove them. If you can't figure out how to remove them go to your dealer and have the shop show you! You have to remove them! Also while there ask them how to access the condenser or the heater core and heat exchanger. Oh do NOT forget the Tri Pak exchanger! Put the lovers in the bucket to soak until you can hand wash them before you put them back in the duct work.


Fill the bucket with warm water and add the Mr. Clean. Be generous! Fill the spray bottle from the bucket.

Take your rag on a wire and get it wet with your Mr. Clean and now the fun begins! Starting at the top of the dash put the ramrod into an open vent and run it as far down into it as you can but do NOT slam it into the heat exchanger. Pull it out and do this several times then pull it completely out, look at it, get sick but then rinse it in the bucket and repeat until it comes out clean! If the previous owner was a heavy smoker you might have to change the solution several times as that stuff is really thick!

Go to the next vent and repeat! In a tractor, do not forget the sleeper system!
When the ducts are done pour out the water and fill the bucket with clean warm water and do the entire system again to rinse them out. Hopefully you have nothing but a clean rag and a clean system with none of that skank left in the system!

Now, for the condenser or heat exchanger! This you won't get completely clean unless you want to use a pipe cleaner and run it through all those radiator fins! Just spray using your spray bottle as much as you can into those fins and try to force as much smoke covered dust out and leave the Mr. Clean in the fins. I would not worry about rinsing them off. Place a heavy towel under it while you spray to catch the crap that comes out so it doesn't get on your carpet.

Just placing stuff in to absorb odors is a waste of time! You don't hang these things off your kids after a hard days play do you? A good scrubbing of every surface is the only thing that will remove that nasty smell smokers leave behind!

 

OR, you could just take up, (or go back to) smoking. . .

 

Odor Ban, it gets rid of anything, even dead people smell.

 

only thing I can suggest is dont use armorall on the steering wheel