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#11

07-25-2012, 08:52 PM

full house

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maybe it's the moist coming for floor mats and the seat that causes the odor clean it regularly to prevent bad smell.

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09-12-2012, 01:06 PM

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Take those baking soda packs, spread it on your carpet and massage it in. Leave it overnight, and vacuum it out the next day. Also, check your cabin filter.

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12-05-2012, 02:53 AM

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03-24-2013, 08:21 AM

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take the seats out. i started having smells come from the back seat, especially when it was warm. turns out my kids had spilled who knows what that had sunk down into the back seat padding of my camry and rotted it out. good times. check it

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05-27-2013, 12:08 PM

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the way i got it out of my camry was with bleach. i had juice from italian beef i was taking to a party seep down into the actual cushion pads under the seat. it wasn't easy, the real question is then how do you get the bleach smell out haha

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06-17-2013, 02:44 PM

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Hi I came across this forum and was wondering what ever happened with your speakers? The same thing is in my 2009 Acura tsx. I covered the speakers in the sun and Tada! No smell! Any advice?

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Originally Posted by swataz

Ok, you are probably going to say "what the hell" to this, but I ascertained the source of the bad smell, and it makes sense why it only happens when the car gets warm due to sunlight.

First, thanks forthe feedback, butI'll tell you there is no condensation on the inside of the windows ever, so I am 99% sure of no leak. And I changed the cabin filter, which, BTW was black with dirt and debris...horrible and probably was useless for a while,but it wasnot tremendously smelly.

While cleaning out the car the other dayon a nice warm sunny day here in NY,my wife andI noticed the smell seems to come from the speaker deck behind the rear seats. Upon closer inspection, the plastic stockspeaker covers stunk like the offending smell.

I don't know WHY the polymer that the speaker covers are giving off this smell when 'cooked" by the sun, but they do, and unfortunately all the cleaning andFebreze-ing in the world has no lasting effect. We tried.

So, the answer I suppose now is getting new speaker covers that somehow DON'T smell, or, well, trying to find something to eliminate the odor. My motto is: whichever is more cost-effective.

Thoughts anyone?