My car smells like moth balls

[quixotique]

My new car smells to death like moth balls. I'm actually allergic to mothballs so I didn't know it smelled like moth balls. I thought it smelled like engine, so I guess I lucked out. But I want to get rid of the mothball smell

Comments

[carbonatedsass]

Beats new car smell!! I pick mothballs anyday!

I read a while back that if you leave a bowl of water with lemon out for 24h, it'll absorb smells around the house. The same might be true for mothball smells?

[quixotique]

I guess because of my allergy I'm not used to the smell and can't say I care for it. Also, *I* end up smelling like mothballs which isn't fun on a night out.

[carbonatedsass]

Yeah, girls wouldn't like a guy who smells like he's 90 trying to pick them up!

[quixotique]

Old people smell like moth balls?

[carbonatedsass]

Oh, maybe it's just what I think. It's not one of those universal facts. I tend to associate the smell of moth balls with old people. And old clothing.

[quixotique]

Now that you mention it, it smells a bit like vintage clothes shops.

[carbonatedsass]

Bingo! As in, old clothes left in cupboards for decades, festering with mothballs to repel the moths over all that time (although I'm not sure if that actually works).

[islander82]

Lots of old people I know smell like mothballs. It's horrid.

[preach]

I was just going to say, it must have belonged to an old couple. Maybe try and change air filters and such to, alot of odor can come throught the vent system for A/C and heat (you know that nicotine smell stuff when u turn the a/c on in a smokers car deal) Once you make it your own, it will take on your own smell.

[quixotique]

I think they used it to keep critters out of her as it was stored in the country during winter.