Getting rid of the nicotine smell

Wash all the hard plastic with washing up liguid and water - about the same concentration as you'd use for dishes. And do the windows and surrounds. Keep the cloth only damp and rinse frequently. Clean the seats with upholstery cleaner, and Hoover all the carpets and headlining. Take out seat squabs etc if you can and Hoover under them. Inside the glove boxes etc as well. Smoke can get to every part of the car, so the more you get to the more you'll get rid of it.

Water with a drop of detergent (washing up liquid) will remove the tar coating just about as well as anything from hard surfaces.

In news:lZvrc.563$%g7.129@newsfe2-win, Ch. Rajinder Nijjhar Jatt decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

Take up smoking, you'll never notice.

The worst by a mile are those who've stopped. Prigs, most of them. ;-)

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ME!

Febreeze, multiple applications.

-- Malc

I plan on restarting once I'm old enough for it not to make any difference

-- Malc

Steve the grease

In news:v4Crc.1722$ snipped-for-privacy@news-text.cableinet.net, Malc decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

I'm already old enough (33), after all, who needs the days at the END of your life? "The Incontinence Years" If I croak in a car crash (highly likely in my current collection of vehicles), then all that time not smoking will be wasted :-P

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A couple of small containers of bicarbonate of soda, with either some mesh over the top, or small holes in the lid will help absorb the airborn smell, alongside the advice that has been given by others in here for the actual cleaning. Might take a while though.

I'd add that a drop of vinegar in the washing up liquid does the trick even better, especially at lifting nicotine off surfaces. Leaves the glass wonderfully clean too. Only downside is the car smells like a chipshop for a couple of days, but it's better than smelling like a pub carpet the morning after.

Get some chicken fillets and leave one under each front seat, one in the boot and maybe one in the glove box.

Alternatively use fish instead of chicken.

Either way the nasty nicotine smell will be masked completely after a while.

Pete M ( snipped-for-privacy@blue-nopressedmeat-yonder.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

What if you die in a car crash caused by dropping a lit ciggy into your lap at speed? Hmmm? Hmmm?

Hi Dave,

Thanks.

Rajinder

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