Cigarette Smoke

[RTexasF]

I did this for a living. After cleaning everything you can touch use this:
http://www.amazon.com/Nok-Out-Odor-Elimi...eywords=nok-out

If you still smell cigs then you missed something, it's just that simple. Buy the gallon.

 

[qwertydude]

Don't run ozone generators too long in the car especially those big professional units. If you do run it what you want to do is also put a nice strong room fan in the car to blow the ozone around and really circulate it so it doesn't concentrate anywhere and cause material damage.

Ozone deteriorates almost everything in cars. Especially vulnerable are the foam surrounds on speakers. Ozone is the primary thing that causes those foam speaker surrounds to fail. Or in worst case scenarios can just start making your interior just fall apart.

http://techtalk.parts-express.com/showthread.php?199066-Can-Ozone-damage-speaker-surrounds-NM-*NM*

Also if you're wondering here's how you do it with a real ozone generator. This is the one where you have to really be careful. Just putting it in your car overnight and letting it run is a recipe for disaster.

http://www.wikihow.com/Do-an-Ozone-Shock-Treatment-on-a-Vehicle

 

[The Critic]

^ Interesting. I've seen one ran in a car for 4-5 hours and the interior did not appear to have any damage.

 

[qwertydude]

Just give it time. Anything bonded to foam underneath it can fail, and it usually takes a while to see the effects.

A couple months down the road and the customer is left wondering why his roof material collapsed on his head. Seen it happen with a couple pros before.

 

[FastEddie]

I've seen some pretty epic Ozone fails by the local budget detail shop. These guys would leave a 7000 mg/h ozone machine in the car all day and then wonder why they had so many issues with parts on the interior failing later on. And if you have seen what an ozone machine can do to a car that has had it's interior shampooed and not completely dried before the ozone treatment, it's unforgettable...bleached carpets. I actually built my own DIY 14,000 mg/h ozone shock machine. Works great when used responsibly and as directed.

 

[qwertydude]

That's an impressive amount of output. I bet you could deodorize a house with that much output.