SFOMEX From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (3 years 1 month 2 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 644 times:
Three days ago I received my brand new car, a Renault Clio 2007. Driving a new car is always exciting, especially every time you get inside your car and take a deep breath, enjoying the magic brand new car smell.
Is there a better smell than this one?
BTW, these are two pics of my new car, but in a different color (mine is beige).
Andz From South Africa, joined Feb 2004, 7263 posts, RR: 14 Reply 1, posted (3 years 1 month 2 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 628 times:
As long as the new smell is leather and not vinyl! Even after I can't smell it anymore, people will get into my car and remark on the leather smell. I never smoke or eat in the car or use any of those ghastly air fresheners so it retains the "car" smell much longer.
777ER From New Zealand, joined Dec 2003, 9874 posts, RR: 24 Reply 3, posted (3 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 526 times:
I get to enjoy the new car smell every week at work, but AsstChiefMark is correct, those poisons can be deadly. New leather smell is actually the most deadly poison in a new car. I always try and drive a new car with its windows down and have them down as much as possible at other times
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Asuflyer05 From United States, joined Feb 2004, 2149 posts, RR: 3 Reply 5, posted (3 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 504 times:
The new car smell is generally the seat material, plastics, and glue inside the car. There's a material applied to the bottom of cars to ensure they do not rust during transport. When it burns off it smells like burning plastic. I actually like that smell too.
which comes out of a spraycan used by the dealership (or factory) because they know cars that smell like that are perceived as being new.
I've walked into used car lots and been completely overwhelmed by it too, they'd sprayed such heavy clouds of the stuff that the entire building smelled like a new car
KevinL1011 From United States, joined Mar 2005, 2233 posts, RR: 34 Reply 10, posted (3 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 426 times:
Quoting Andz (Reply 1): As long as the new smell is leather and not vinyl
Confession time...
In a past life, I was a Mfgr. rep. for a high line German car company and got a new zone car every 6 to 10k mi. Ahhhhhhh....the smell. The smell of new leather. Totally intoxicating.
Anyway, the confession:
I was inside of a Kia "Santa Fe" with leather (I consider Korean cars as sub-human) and it smelled every bit as good as those high line German cars that I used to punish. Cognitive dissonance, big time.
Why does the destruction of brain cells and poisoning your body with toxins feel so good?
Quoting AsstChiefMark (Reply 2): That "new car smell" is actually poisonous. The new materials (plastic, foam, fabric, dyes) are simply venting unstable and excess toxic chemicals.
Just see how often you'll have clean the haze off the inside surface
Bingo!
It's the flexing agents in the vinyl and the tanning solutions, preservatives and color dyes used in leather production. When the material is exposed to sunlight and heat, it oxidizes. The preservatives and flexing agents in the material bond with oxygen molecules and go airborne. After that new car smell goes away, decomposition begins.
The Chief speaks truth. Difficult as hell to clean from inside the glass. Imagine what it does to your lungs.
Quoting Derico (Reply 4): Well if there is one poison I want to die on, it's those poisons.
John Belushi once said that he did cocaine because he "liked the smell".
Quoting Asuflyer05 (Reply 5): The new car smell is generally the seat material, plastics, and glue inside the car. There's a material applied to the bottom of cars to ensure they do not rust during transport. When it burns off it smells like burning plastic. I actually like that smell too.
You're sick!
And!....The smell you get from freshly unwrapped electronic equipment. Mmmmmmmmm.....laminates.
I'll tell ya a couple 'O stories about new car smell gone wrong.
Once in a while, during the manufacture of leather components, the hides don't properly get "tanned". The material will oxidize and decompose a bit too quickly. What a smell! Hoooo-wee!
Did you know that bovine urea is used to manufacture foam? Ever wonder why it's yellow? I saw a case where a batch of foam used for interior sound absorption did not get cured properly. The car smelled like the inside of a telephone booth in downtown LA. The mfgr. replaced the entire interior and it still smelled like piss.
I've got a few good "find the dead animal smell in the car" stories too but I'll spare you for now.
Yes!! I remember when MX new A319s started arriving, I once jumpseated on a one week year old A319, it was absolutely great as well recently to repeat the moment in the last A318 received!! As well as jumpseating on a 3 month old B737NG from AM, or recently a flight I took from TLC to GDL with Volaris flying a 2 week old A319 flying out from a different airport and modern TLC instead of MEX as well as I remember taking pictures of Boeing's 777LR @ MEX World Tour or very recently, AM's new B777s birds!!!
Other than that, I agree I also like very much the smell of a new car even if its toxic or sprayed with something else... where are you moving SFO?
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