Bought used yaris, smelled nice, now bad. Any help?

[UberSilver]

I'd return it to the dealer and let them take care of it. After all, they covered it up. if that does not work, you could always start smoking again.

[nookandcrannycar]

I'd be so pissed off (if what happened to the OP happened to me), my blood pressure might raise outside the 'rated desired' range I am within. This is one reason I try to find the cheapest (overall to operate) NEW cars I can find (that I also like). I'm pretty cynical about some things and the fact that the dealer did this to the OP doesn't surprise me very much.

Sorry if my attitude (re what the dealer did to the OP) offends anyone. Smoking just brings up old issues for me. I've never been a smoker, but my father smoked 4 packs of unfiltered Pall Malls every day for 35 years. During the last year of his life, his Emphysema was so bad that he couldn't walk half a block without stopping to rest, had prescribed inhalers, and still didn't stop smoking!. He started smoking when he was in the U.S. Army, and before that he was quite athletic. My mother smoked 2 packs of filtered cigarettes a day. It took her 4 years to quit (once she put her mind to it), but she did it and never smoked again. She died, stricken by Lung Cancer (Small cell carcinoma), a bit over 20 years later. My current next door neighbor, in his early 70s, just lost his wife of nearly 50 years (one of the sweetest individuals I have ever encountered) to Crohn's disease. He said her doctors told him that she might not have gotten it at all, or at least would have suffered less, had she not been a smoker. He quit over 30 years ago, but could never get her to quit.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by UberSilver

I'd return it to the dealer and let them take care of it. After all, they covered it up.

^^^^^ Of course this would be the best next action to take. If the dealer refuses to make it right, I'd contact the Attorney General's office in your state to see what other options are available.

[frog13]

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[Shinare]

Hey all, I went to Pep Boys this weekend and bought one of those "bug bomb" car freshener foggers that I didn't even know existed before this thread. The only one they had left in stock was a "Floral" scented one. I bought it and used it. It seems to have worked very well except that now my car smells like the inside of a very small, very packed with flowers, florist shop, heh. I would have preferred something with not quite so dramatic of a smell, but that was the last one on the shelf. Anyway, what a difference. Smoke smell is gone. I guess we'll see how permanent it is in the long run.