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The Magic Smell Of A Brand New Car!  
User currently offlineSFOMEX From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1517 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? Big grin  twocents 

BTW, these are two pics of my new car, but in a different color (mine is beige).  veryhappy 




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User currently offlineAndz From South Africa, joined Feb 2004, 8230 posts, RR: 13
Reply 1, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1501 times:
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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.


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User currently offlineAsstChiefMark From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 2, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 1474 times:

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 of the windscreen over the next few weeks.

Mark

User currently offline777ER From New Zealand, joined Dec 2003, 10883 posts, RR: 25
Reply 3, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 1399 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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User currently offlineDerico From Argentina, joined Dec 1999, 4121 posts, RR: 15
Reply 4, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 1399 times:

Well if there is one poison I want to die on, it's those poisons.

BTW, SFOMEX, Renault Clio?? In the United States???


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User currently offlineAsuflyer05 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 2355 posts, RR: 3
Reply 5, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days ago) and read 1377 times:
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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.

User currently offlineCactus739 From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 2337 posts, RR: 40
Reply 6, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days ago) and read 1363 times:

I love my brand new car smell....almost as much as the new car

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User currently offlineSFOMEX From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 1343 times:

Quoting Derico (Reply 4):
BTW, SFOMEX, Renault Clio?? In the United States???

Hi Derico. I'm living in Mexico City and I will remain here at least for another year. AFAIK, Renault doesn't sell its cars in the USA.

I didn't know that the "new car smell" was poisonous. Thanks for ruining the moment folks.  grumpy 

Cheers!

User currently offlineGarri767 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 8, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 1332 times:

Quoting SFOMEX (Thread starter):
The Magic Smell Of A Brand New Car

Liar, he's just using this! Big grin







 Wink

Garri767

User currently offlineJwenting From Netherlands, joined Apr 2001, 10213 posts, RR: 25
Reply 9, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 1313 times:

Quoting SFOMEX (Thread starter):
enjoying the magic brand new car smell.

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  Smile


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User currently offlineKevinL1011 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 2931 posts, RR: 53
Reply 10, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 1299 times:
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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.  crazy 
Why does the destruction of brain cells and poisoning your body with toxins feel so good?  scratchchin 

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

 checkmark  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. beady 

Quoting 777ER (Reply 3):
can be deadly

You'd have to smoke a lot of it.  biggrin 

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".  hyper 

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!  Wink

And!....The smell you get from freshly unwrapped electronic equipment. Mmmmmmmmm.....laminates.  cloudnine 

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.  Smile


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User currently offlineAsuflyer05 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 2355 posts, RR: 3
Reply 11, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1256 times:
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Quoting KevinL1011 (Reply 10):
You're sick!

Yeah I know. I'm not sure if its the actual smell or some sort of psychological stimulant from a new car.

User currently offlineGhost77 From Mexico, joined Mar 2000, 5021 posts, RR: 55
Reply 12, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 1221 times:

Quoting SFOMEX (Thread starter):
Is there a better smell than this one?

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?

g77 APM


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