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I got a used Mazda that must have been owned by a chain smoker. Was going to pass on it, but my brother is a body shop guy and told me about a product that actually works. It is called Odor Bomb.

http://www.amazon.com/Dakota-Odor-Bomb-Car-Eliminator/dp/B001UOYNK8

Worked like a champ and the odor never came back.

Eating beans and cabbage works for me

Gotta go with the ionizer machine. I rented two of them when we bought our house. Lucked out. Paid for overnight, but they let me keep them for the weekend. Can't stay in the house when they're running, so I drive up every 12 hours and moved them through the house. Nicotine is a bacteria. And like William Munny out of Misouri, these machines kill everything that walks or crawls and them some. Not only did they do a great job, we didn't see a bug, or any living organism, for 6 years.

The above said, in humid conditions the odor still sweats a bit from the wood and it's been over 10 years. Nicotine is a bitch and I can't imagine a car being worth that. Well, maybe the Batmobile.

I hear Tinks #69 works............

I wonder if this works on skunk spray...

Take up smoking, you'll hardly notice it after awhile.

Nor did I, but was too shy to ask.

Dump gasoline on it and throw in a match.

Correct. Many car detail places have that service.

My buddy John was a serious smoker, 2-3 packs of Marlboro a day. I had a new girlfriend, KYHillChick. John and his wife invited us camping in Florida. John left with all the gear in early February so that he could get in a couple of races at Daytona and Sebring before we all flew down. At the end of February, we got a call; John had died in a campground outside Ocala of a heart attack. KYHillChick and I offered to fly down and retrieve his camper and Ford Taurus.

Problem: the Taurus was saturated with smoke, to the point where KYHillChick could not stand to be in it even with the windows down.

Fix: I bought a box of Baking Soda and spread it everywhere in the car-- seats, carpet-- everywhere. Where I could not get it to stick, I used a spray bottle with water and got the surface a little damp and then rubbed the baking soda in. Then we went camped for a few days and left the car sit buttoned up in the sun.
By the time we left to drive home, it was bearable. By the time we got back to Cincinnati, the smoke smell was gone. When I handed the keys to John's widow, she even commented on how the smoke smell had left, and it was hardly believable it was the same car.

I'd pass. I bought a truck one time that was owned by a smoker. I never did get the smell out. I even replaced the head liner and seat covers. I'd think it was gone, then a hot, humid day, locked up in the parking lot at work and it would come back...I ended up selling it to a smoker. He never mentioned the smoke smell.

Thanks for the suggestions. The ozone machine I have was my parents for use in a machine shop. It is a 4 'plate' model so really cranks out the O.

I didn't think about the vents until it was mentioned here. That maybe a harder nut to crack.

Caven's Gusto.

Sliced up apples on a plate on the floor. Hopefully you like apple odor....

Just leave the vent fan running while the machine is on.

Also, you can turn on the vent fans, on outside air, and spray Lysol in there.

Then use the nasty, smokey grounds to brew up a batch and your breath will smell just like my way too old to teach, battle axe, teachers in elementary school.

Skunk essence for the seats and Limburger cheese for the vents.

There are only a million other used cars out there that weren't smoked in...

you can't because smoke reacts with the fabric and other organic material in the car and it is not reversible.

thanks
Persian.

There is no practical way to get all the smell out.