How to Clean a Smoke-Damaged Car

Video Transcript

"Hello today we're going to talk about cleaning a smoke damaged car. Unfortunately when your car's interior has been damaged by smoke it is very important that you are extremely thorough in cleaning every nook and cranny and that can take a lot of time, but if you take the time and do the job properly you will remove any damage that the smoke has caused due to odor or on the material itself if it is smoky or discolored. In removing the odor you always want to make sure that you begin with shampooing your vehicle. It is always great to use a good shampoo when cleaning your car's interior carpets and upholstery. There are some all purpose shampoos where you can use it on the carpet and on the upholstery and you want to make sure that all of that area is cleaned, you want to follow up with using a baking soda type product that you can sprinkle into the fabrics of your carpet and that will help eat away the smoke odor over time. Then the third step in getting rid of that smoky smell it is to use a good fogger and what this is is what they call a good odor bomb where you would take the top off, press down on the tab and then the odor neutralizing spray comes out automatically, close the vehicle's doors and allow this to empty out into the vehicle and let it sit in your vehicle for four to five hours. This goes into the, the spray goes into every part of the vehicle's interior and it eats away at all of the smoke bacteria so that the odor will be removed and that is basically how you clean a smoke damaged car."