Deodorizing Vents
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Cripes. Can you two take your little 2 man circle jerk to private messaging and leave a relatively clean thread alone?? This is EXACTLY the type of crap that makes SEARCHING a HUGE pain.
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Originally Posted by jimmyc13
Is sending vapor/mist into the car's AC/vent system bad for the car? Just curious...I like the Febreeze idea...but don't want to F up my car.
Won't you end up with febreeze residue in the circ system? That stuff is a sticky mess when we sprayed it generously on some flooring and carpet where we had some animal butt control issues...love the stuff but that much concentrated can not be wonderful for the system or filters.
so anyone knows about this??
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Originally Posted by jimmyc13
Is sending vapor/mist into the car's AC/vent system bad for the car? Just curious...I like the Febreeze idea...but don't want to F up my car.
Originally Posted by SixFive
Won't you end up with febreeze residue in the circ system? That stuff is a sticky mess when we sprayed it generously on some flooring and carpet where we had some animal butt control issues...love the stuff but that much concentrated can not be wonderful for the system or filters.
You guys don't have to do it, just a suggestion. I've never had a complaint.
Oh, and fwiw, after I do this the car doesn't seem to shoot febreeze odor out of the vents (which would indicate maybe some residue sticking in the system). I'd imagine it's very much like spraying some into the air - it just dissipates before it hits the ground. I use a whole bottle because I do it every 6 months, but i'd guess that a smaller burst more often would do the trick just as well.
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Agreed. The vent systems are semi-contained. It's mostly just ducting and the cabin filter.
Originally Posted by picus112
Well I don't know for sure, but I can honestly say that I've been doing this in mine and customer cars for years and have never had a problem. I brought it up once with a service guy and he basically shrugged and said it was no problem and that the ventilation system sucks in way worse stuff than febreeze every day.
Like I said, I doubt it's worth worrying about. The ventilation system is deisgned to deal with environmental contamination, so febreeze just doesn't strike me as a problem as long as you're not spraying it directly on to your air filter.
You guys don't have to do it, just a suggestion. I've never had a complaint.
Oh, and fwiw, after I do this the car doesn't seem to shoot febreeze odor out of the vents (which would indicate maybe some residue sticking in the system). I'd imagine it's very much like spraying some into the air - it just dissipates before it hits the ground. I use a whole bottle because I do it every 6 months, but i'd guess that a smaller burst more often would do the trick just as well.
Like I said, I doubt it's worth worrying about. The ventilation system is deisgned to deal with environmental contamination, so febreeze just doesn't strike me as a problem as long as you're not spraying it directly on to your air filter.
You guys don't have to do it, just a suggestion. I've never had a complaint.
Oh, and fwiw, after I do this the car doesn't seem to shoot febreeze odor out of the vents (which would indicate maybe some residue sticking in the system). I'd imagine it's very much like spraying some into the air - it just dissipates before it hits the ground. I use a whole bottle because I do it every 6 months, but i'd guess that a smaller burst more often would do the trick just as well.
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Originally Posted by Jeff92se
Cripes. Can you two take your little 2 man circle jerk to private messaging and leave a relatively clean thread alone?? This is EXACTLY the type of crap that makes SEARCHING a HUGE pain.
You said "circle jerk" He he he. These forums do go off topic....OFTEN.
In regards to fabreez... My wife has the stuff for inside our house, but it's a standard spray bottle. Do they make an arisol can, or do you sit there and manually spray an entire bottle?
Thanks!
Last edited by shredX; 03-22-2006 at 08:10 PM.
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Originally Posted by shredX
You said "circle jerk" He he he. These forums do go off topic....OFTEN.
In regards to fabreez... My wife has the stuff for inside our house, but it's a standard spray bottle. Do they make an arisol can, or do you sit there and manually spray an entire bottle?
Thanks!
In regards to fabreez... My wife has the stuff for inside our house, but it's a standard spray bottle. Do they make an arisol can, or do you sit there and manually spray an entire bottle?
Thanks!
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Update. I still could smell a faint smoke stink when running the defrost system w/ the fresh air vent. I didn't run the Ozium though there that long the first time.
so I repeated the whole process I mentioned again. But this time sprayed the ozium more aggresively. I also took off the battery cover and tray under the hood. This reveals the fresh air vent and cabin filter. With the ac on full blast and running both defrost and the other heat vents, I sprayed the Ozium toward the cabin filter.
It's been another 2 days and so far it's working. I'm going to now clean all the plastic and leather with cleaner. As I think the vents aren't spewing stink on everything. hehe
so I repeated the whole process I mentioned again. But this time sprayed the ozium more aggresively. I also took off the battery cover and tray under the hood. This reveals the fresh air vent and cabin filter. With the ac on full blast and running both defrost and the other heat vents, I sprayed the Ozium toward the cabin filter.
It's been another 2 days and so far it's working. I'm going to now clean all the plastic and leather with cleaner. As I think the vents aren't spewing stink on everything. hehe
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One last update. It's been 4-5 days since the last treatment and I haven't had a chance to clean the leather. When my bro rode in the car I asked him if he could smell anything. He said "no". Just a faint smell of the ozium. I agreed but since I drive the car everyday, I couldn't be sure.
So I'm pretty confident that the ozium worked pretty good. I DID however clean the headliner and glass previously. But the 2 treatments of Ozium seemed to do the trick better than anything else I tried
So I'm pretty confident that the ozium worked pretty good. I DID however clean the headliner and glass previously. But the 2 treatments of Ozium seemed to do the trick better than anything else I tried
Originally Posted by shredX
^^ Nice. My dad (a smoker) is selling his ride. I gave him the advice from this thread.
Thanks guys.
Thanks guys.
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Ugh! The smell is back. It's not a smoke smell. More like a monkey pissed inside the vents! I'll try the Ozium thing again but has anyone had a persistant problem? I'm thinking something in the system is causing the odor and unless I get that, it will just keep coming back.
Once I run the AC or fan for a bit, it goes away. ?????????
Once I run the AC or fan for a bit, it goes away. ?????????
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