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Originally Posted by LGAFF
Does the car smell like smoke, that is the biggest challenge is getting the smoke smell out of the interior, and honestly why some of these get totalled, not the amount of direct damage but the residual.
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Honestly, not really - at least not like you'd think. I don't think that much smoke (if any) got into the cabin, the previous owner got the fire put out pretty quickly (he apparently had one of those "Big Gulp" drinks at the time, he put the fire out with it!). It does have a little smell, but not bad. I think most of the smell is in the carpets. The door panel carpets I cleaned with carpet cleaner that has odor remover in it and they smell good now. I think once I get the whole interior done and cleaned, there will be no more bad smell.
My '90 Z was the same way, but for a different reason. It had an "old cigarette" smell to it (PO smoked in it) But now that the front part of the interior has been cleaned with that same carpet cleaner with the odor remover (turtle wax), it smells good now with no trace of the cigarette smell that I can detect.