New truck smells like glue, making me sick.

I feel for you @vegaskid. When I bought my truck last November it had been sitting in the cold for a couple of weeks. Horrible smell inside. Tried scrubbing, spraying, and nothing worked. I finally pulled up the carpet and insulation and the floor was drenched with condensation. Two rolls of shop towels later I got about a gallon out. Then three pounds of baking soda and a hair dryer running overnight did the trick (vacuuming out the crusted baking soda in the morning).

The reason I mentioned the possibility of adhesive on the floor is that in addition to the baking soda I must have scraped at least a pound of dried adhesive off the floor before replacing the matt and carpet. It smelled funky, part mildew, but with an extra funk that's hard to describe.

Nine months later the smell is permanently gone. Baking soda works wonders. Vinegar also helps eliminate odors.

 

Fresh coffee grounds absorb smells really good too! Spread em around, let em sit for a day, then vacuum

 

Check for anything in the side boxes under the bunk. If there's something under there letting out fumes it comes into the cab. A PB Blaster can that lodged into position to spray each time I went over a pothole on a dirt road got my attention. I instantly recognized the smell, stopped, opened both side boxes and doors, and sprayed lots of deodorizer throughout the cab and side boxes. PB Blaster will do a number on you.

 

If its a Cascadia....thats what they use to put it together......

carry on...

 

Incorrect. Spit and a prayer smells nothing like glue.

 

Get a carbon monoxide detector to be safe .. many trucks have cracked dpfs and the drivers gets sick often and never know why .. Kw replaced my whole exhaust after I threatened to sue them after 6 months of complaining it leaked somewhere as proven by the carbon monoxide detector going off on many occasions

 

Yep could be the seats. I had a cascadia that always kinda smelled like I stepped in a doggie bomb. I finally found where the smell was coming from , the seats.
Had to keep them soaked in fabrezze.

 

You got Jack Lemmon'd, lol.