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Re: What does your interior smell like?
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A good start to fixing your heater issue is to clean out the intake area, usually just below the wipers, on the bottom of the windshield. You may have put a lot of things there while working on your car that have dripped into your heater. Once its clean, turn the heat on full blast and let it bake everything out. It also makes your heater quieter more often then not, and it blows stronger, since many people have all sorts of leaves and crap after years of parking it. if you still have things coming out, or the smell is unchanged, you may need to clean the blower out, its probably original and who knows what the previous owner did. once I found a mouse nest that had been spinning in there for years, I had owner the truck I found it in for almost two, and the blower never gave me much air... no wonder why. Also, every spring, I like to clean out my car of everything and put it on the ground. It helps to remember all the stuff you put in there, and also to remove what you don't need to save on weight. It never fails I find some sort of McDonalds bag packed under my seat, or fries in my trunk. I don't even eat fast food, so who knows what you may find. BTW, usually my car smells like ICE by turtle wax, and my heater smells like nothing but air, so it works pretty well for me.
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In Japan there was an aftermarket filter available. It was electrically driven, situated in the centre of the rear shelf. It was sold as a boon to smokers. A lot of owners were smokers in Japan in the early nineties. Joe
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my svx has smelled the same for the last 4-5 years
was my older brothers before me and everytime he gets back in it he tells me it still has that familiar SVX smell dont know how to describe it...its just a comfortable smell
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Mine is as well... I just hope I don't find dead things to be a comforting smell...
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1992 Pearl White LS-L "Ruslana" #4946 - 180k on body, 95k on engine. Mods: ECU bead crush, 15 min mod, 20 min mod, drilled/slotted rotors & Axxis ceramic brakes, SS lines, 17" Evoke F1 wheels, XS-HF137 Sony Xplod speakers, 6000k HID's (lows & fogs), resistor mod, 1½" Sleek Spoiler mod, custom exhaust by svxfiles, '02 WRX aluminum racing radiator by svxfiles, Summit Racing 400# x 300# springs w/ Koni's by svxfiles, ClassGlass fiberglass hood /w scoop, Nevin's rear sway bar, '97 grille, phenolic spacers, custom LED interior lighting, custom paint. †"War doesn't determine who is right, only who is left"† Work to be done: Tinted windows, clear/LED tail lights, tailbar mod, "Power Mode" mod, Supertone horns, clear corners & headlight lenses, 2 pc splitters or custom bumper, Alcyone side skirts, TruSpeed Stage III SVX Intake, Hydra, 4.44 tranny swap, JDM auto folding side mirrors, engine rebuild, super charger, STi seats, bone leather interior /w SVX emblem, dash overhaul, SVX decals, paint (stock color). Total cost?: 22k At least it's going down..
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Mine just has that distinctive SVX smell. I've never been in a car that smelled similar.
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Re: What does your interior smell like?
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unless you're in the trunk will be doing the strip and clean
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my SVX smells exatly like my friend 1998 M3, it must be just the smell of the leather. It's back when they used REAL leather haha
edit: I just noticed u bumped a thread from February....
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My JDM smells of smoke and leather.
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Mine was a non-smoker, so I can definitely sense that "old car smell" with a touch of leather. I buy the $7 bottles of "Bod" (Really Ripped Abs) spray cologne and spritz the floormats, makes it smell really good for a couple weeks at a time. But depending on what ive consumed in the last day it can temporarily smell like a brick ****house..
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mine smelled like chronic + leather
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Bubblegum here, no clue how, i picked up coconut scented tree air freshners lol.
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both my claret and ebony smell like 92 subaru. the polo still had the new car smell when i got it, but now it just smells like stale air.
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Kenneth 1997 Subaru SVX LSi "Svetlana" #185 of 640 - 09/1996 - Polo Green Pearl - 34k miles 1992 Subaru SVX LS-L "Everett" #8738 - 01/1992 - Ebony Pearl - 139k miles - 5MT shifty - Sold 07/31/2011 1992 Subaru SVX LS-L "Sven" #1599 - 05/1991 - Claret - 168k miles - Traded 05/11/2005 2023 Subaru Crosstrek Limited CVT - Crystal White Pearl - 2.8k miles 2021 Subaru Forester 2.5i Limited CVT - Horizon Blue Pearl - 17k miles 2023 Volkswagen Jetta S 6MT - Pure White - 2.6k miles 2020 Hyundai Ioniq Limited EV - Ceramic White - 30k miles |
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Mine smell like humidity .. and dried leather... i want it to smell like new again, so ill take the carpets out to get them cleaned. Also new leather all around will help. I still remember the smell of brand new SVX´s, thats the smell of leather, new carpets, and the adhesive used in the ecsaine, roof and console. Pleasant smell..
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Re: What does your interior smell like?
Like new leather.
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