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A customer writes:
I just ordered three of your products, but what do I have to do to keep that new car smell?
I just ordered a new Magnum ( hemi version) but will not get in for a couple
of months. This is my first NEW car in 32 years.
Anyway, how do I keep that new car smell, all the time, or at least for a long time. The new magnum has the
leather/vinyl interior.
Thanks for the help
Zim Zim,
A fact of life and car materials is that eventually the moisture and chemicals that give a new car that smell will go away.
You can prolong that time by not letting the car ever get hot or see the sun. By keeping the windows up, and by never ever sitting in it!
Just kidding. Really though, the more you use the car, the quicker the smell will go away. What gives
any new car (or any new item) that "new" smell is really all the chemicals.
In this case the chemicals in vinyl, rubber, carpet/cloth and leather.
Even the paint, sealants, padding and grease/oil used on all over the interior
of any new car.
Ever wonder what the scum is on the inside of windows of cars when the owners don't smoke? It is that new car smell! The scum is the result of gasses off of all the material inside the car mixed with usual dirt in the air and humidity from the air and human breath. That all gets on the windows (and all over
everything else too) and causes that nasty stuff that is hard to get off.
The more you introduce new smells (food, coffee, smoke, smells from the outside etc) into your car, the quicker they overwhelm the factory smells.
But eventually all those new things in your car age, no matter what you do and no longer have that smell.
Ever wonder why old vinyl, leather or rubber is so hard and easy to crack?
Same reason it no longer smells new, all the chemicals that made it soft when
new are now gone. The cleaner you keep your car, and the less you let it sit in the sun
and the heat that makes those chemicals dry up, the better off you are.
Use a sunshade, leave a window cracked, park in the shade or garage as much as possible.
Keep your interior clean. Use cleaning chemicals that introduce as little of their own smell as possible. All DC CarCare products are chosen to put as little of their own smell into the car as possible, or at least leave a natural (car like) smell. For
leather and vinyl, a product like Lexol Leather Cleaner and Conditioner cleans
dirt and outside smells while putting back in needed moisture and protecting the
PH of the leather. Lexol Vinylex does the same thing for interior or
exterior vinyl and plastic.
Finally, I do NOT recommend any car deodorizers, at least yet. I have tried a lot of them, but the traditional pine tree is for covering up BAD smells, not keeping the good ones. Most other car "smell" products also introduce a smell that is usually far worse than what you have to begin with. There are even some now that advertise that they smell "like a new car" Funny how they can say that, because every new car smells different.
Typically, Japanese cars smell different from European and both smell different from American cars. It is the different types of materials they traditionally use along with the mix of materials. Compare several different brand new cars and you will see what I mean.
You could try some of those smells/deodorants, but I would NOT recommend you use any of them in a car till you try them out somewhere else...in the garage, or outside the
garage. And only use a TINY amount of any smell chemical or spray because some of them have been known to hang around for years, and most are NOT something you want to smell every time.
And if some day you get in your car and you can't smell new leather, or new vinyl, then at least it should smell clean and not musty. That is what our products will do for you. After detailing your car with DC CarCare products you will smell some new smells in your car, but that should go away in a day or two, leaving you car smelling the way you remember.
You can also buy some new things like a new set of floor mats, or a new leather Wheelskin steering wheel cover.
New items have some of the "new" smell and can add in good new smells from time to time
while making you feel better along the way.
Finally, if you ever have others wash or detail your car, keep them from soaking the interior in soapy water, or using perfumed chemicals on the inside. Ask before you turn your car over
for the first time (ask EVERY time to be sure) to smell what they will use and HOW they will do it? You may get your new car back smelling like bubblegum,
or worse, mold and mildew, and THAT would be a shame.
Thanks for your business and your question!
Don Mallinson, President
DC CarCare
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