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BYERS DETAIL SHOP
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yes you could use a ozone generator or a dakota odor bomb this is a full release bomb
lokichaos
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I had smoke smell in my car from my grandfather, used a Detailer's Pro Oder Eliminator and bam! nothing left to smell except for fresh leather(the scent I got it in). Deff try one of those or a Dakota oder bomb, not sure how much an Ozone generator would cost to do a car… Good luck with the smell though!
lokichaos,
Have you tried the CG Extreme Offensive Odor Eliminator ? I have this in my detail bookmarks for purchase and was curious why you went DP instead of the CG one ( if it was in consideration ).
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I use the dakota odor bomb's as an air freshener, you just give it a few short blasts of the trigger, don't push all the way down into the lock position.
I will close up the windows and close the vents in the truck, spray it in there, and close the door ( per directions ). Works well, but I stink it up again, so I cannot tell if it removes the smell or what I imagine, just covers it up.
Don't know what that would do to a vehicle interior on lock, the 5 oz can is made to release in a hotel room cubic foot wise.
It would cure any smell in the car for sure, but you might need to leave the windows open for 5 hours to air it out so you could sit in it again.
Have you tried the CG Extreme Offensive Odor Eliminator ? I have this in my detail bookmarks for purchase and was curious why you went DP instead of the CG one ( if it was in consideration ).
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I use the dakota odor bomb's as an air freshener, you just give it a few short blasts of the trigger, don't push all the way down into the lock position.
I will close up the windows and close the vents in the truck, spray it in there, and close the door ( per directions ). Works well, but I stink it up again, so I cannot tell if it removes the smell or what I imagine, just covers it up.
Don't know what that would do to a vehicle interior on lock, the 5 oz can is made to release in a hotel room cubic foot wise.
It would cure any smell in the car for sure, but you might need to leave the windows open for 5 hours to air it out so you could sit in it again.
ozone generators are a waste save your money. they simply mask the smell but replacing the odor with its own. what might smell fresh is actually very bad to inhale.what they do is replace oxygen with nitrogen.(what the ozone is mostly made of) odors appear with oxygen. eventually all the fibers in your car fill back up with oxygen and smell once again.so in the end the smell comes back.
a very good cleaning of the whole interior, headliner and all, plus products that kill odor take about 95% of smell away.
a very good cleaning of the whole interior, headliner and all, plus products that kill odor take about 95% of smell away.
rsav
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don't waste your time with an ozone generator. it will not remove smoke odor. you need to kill the source. dakota bombs will mask the order,but the smell will return in a couple days. CG's extreme odor killer will do just that...kill the source. after you treat with CG's, place a couple fabric softner sheets under your seats to keep the interior fresh. just my 2 cents..Ro
Bates Detailing
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I just bought an ozone generator - never used one before, but I have a recent customer that is extremely sensitive to smoke odor.... we did a complete interior detail on this vehicle and steamed every inch of it! This is why I bought an ozone generator - but you are saying that it won't work long term?!?!?
It works. If it can remove the scent of a decomposed body in a vehicle, it can take care of smoke. After proper cleanup of course. Gentleman I do some work for does crime scene cleanup and he has several ozone generators. I send my smoke allergy cars to him after i detail. Have not had a single customer say the smoke scent came back.
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Unfortunately I believe the steamer got most of the smell out. So yes I'm pretty sure that a faint smell may come back in a couple weeks if the ozone was your method of removing the odor.
tuscarora dave
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You can't play around with a little toy of an ozone generator. Anything that costs less than $500 is generally a gimicky toy of an ozone generator. You need to shock treat odors with high concentrations of ozone. Ozone does not contain nitrogen. It contains 3 oxygen atoms instead of 2 oxygen atoms like in the air that we breath. Ozone will kill anything living in certain concentrations, including humans. It is harmful to your lungs to breath in ozone in any concentration.
Here's a link with some ozone basics with an interesting youtube video included.
Ozone Basics
Here's a link with some ozone basics with an interesting youtube video included.
Ozone Basics
Dave is right! A good ozone generator is not inexpensive. Also, if you don't own a good one or have never used one properly it's pretty hard to credibly say they don't work. .02 cents.
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Blackthorn One
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Something that produces hot spark ozone can produce nitric oxides, but all ozone generators I know of are cold spark, which do not. Ozone kills viruses, molds and bacteria. You do need to use a high concentration to get the effect. Normal healthy human cells have an antioxidant coating which helps protect them from ozone damage, but viruses, molds and bacteria do not, which is why they are so vulnerable. Doctors use ozone in Germany to kill viruses by drawing the blood out of the body, and running it through an ozone generator that uses medical oxygen as a base, which bubbles ozone through it, and then returns the blood to the body after the bubbles have dissipated. They have been using ozone for over 60 years.
Too much ozone is harmful for humans to breathe, though. It causes respiratory damage.
Ozone is a great water purifier, too. It works better than chlorine to kill algae. Mark Spitz trained in an ozonated swimming pool, and the Germans would not swim in chlorinated pools in the LA Olympics, so they put ozone in for the events, and many records were set then. After the games, chlorine was put back in, because chemicals are big business.