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Old 02-09-2009, 07:50 AM
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Re: What does your interior smell like?

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I also notice this quite often. I've become fairly good at diagnosing how the vehicle in front of me is running by the smell of it. Which leads me to the question of...

Does the SVX have a cabin air filter, and where would it be located? I've never heard a mention of one, and I can't find one listed on any of the parts websites.
I was wondering the same thing and was going to post that question, but looks like you beat me to it
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Old 02-09-2009, 08:26 AM
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Believe it or not, I was actually going somewhere with this...

From time to time, when I turn on my heater or A/C, it seems like I can smell the outside of my car.. Like the exhaust or something I smushed on the road... Is it my imagination or super-human sense of smell? Or is this a common problem?
Cars parked in the country for the winter are prone to this stuff. I even had a dryer that got some gel in the intake pipe that would make my cloths smell worst then I ever could.

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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Re: What does your interior smell like?

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I was wondering the same thing and was going to post that question, but looks like you beat me to it
There is no filter in the AC/Heater system.

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.

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Old 02-09-2009, 06:29 PM
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Re: What does your interior smell like?

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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Re: What does your interior smell like?

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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
Mine is as well... I just hope I don't find dead things to be a comforting smell...
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Old 02-09-2009, 09:05 PM
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Re: What does your interior smell like?

Mine just has that distinctive SVX smell. I've never been in a car that smelled similar.
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Old 08-04-2009, 11:34 PM
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Re: What does your interior smell like?

ASHTRAY

unless you're in the trunk


will be doing the strip and clean
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Re: What does your interior smell like?

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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Re: What does your interior smell like?

My JDM smells of smoke and leather.
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Re: What does your interior smell like?

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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Old 08-05-2009, 10:31 AM
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Re: What does your interior smell like?

mine smelled like chronic + leather
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Old 08-05-2009, 11:03 AM
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Re: What does your interior smell like?

Bubblegum here, no clue how, i picked up coconut scented tree air freshners lol.
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Old 08-05-2009, 11:04 AM
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Re: What does your interior smell like?

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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Re: What does your interior smell like?

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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Like new leather.
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