will cabin air filter remove Skunk and Pot smells?

[robbobster]

Olden days it meant releasing gas..under the covers

Though similar, methinks there’s a fundamental difference between hot boxxing, and a Dutch oven.

 

[Pablo]

Though similar, methinks there’s a fundamental difference between hot boxxing, and a Dutch oven.

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Yeah. Everyone hates the Dutch!

 

[Hermann]

Cigarette smoke is a far nastier aroma that weed smell.

 

[CleanSump]

CAFs with charcoal have gotten a mention or two.

Does anyone here think that a layer of charcoal in an approximate square foot of media would amount to a hill of beans? ...or that any beneficial effect would last longer than a week?

The ones I've used in our MBs and BMWs last many months and even filter out the smell of driving by a sewage plant. They just don't absorb the skunk and skunkweed smell.
I'll add that they kept out the smell of North Carolina paper plants as we drove to Cherry Point every month.

 

[SOUNDMAN5000]

CAFs with charcoal have gotten a mention or two.

Does anyone here think that a layer of charcoal in an approximate square foot of media would amount to a hill of beans? ...or that any beneficial effect would last longer than a week?

I saw one interesting thing years ago in CAFland.
The CAF was built into my Mom's 1999 Saab 9-5 SE.
One needed to saw a section of metal dashboard structure to allow the filter to be pulled out.
NOTE: The above is absolutely true.

The replaceable filter was the size of a small collegiate dictionary. However, it was mated with a pillow of charcoal the same size.
This monster pad of charcoal was not replaced. It was discarded. Saab never sold them.
I theorized it was an over-sized odor absorber with a designed lifespan long enough to see the vehicle sold.
I believe that air wouldn't really flow through the thing.
Wish I had taken pictures of it.

A few months back my kids old Honda accord needed a replacement filter and I didn't want to pay Honda price so I ordered a $9.99 Puroma Cabin Air Filter with activated Carbon from Amazon...

No, not a great filter but it was $10 and the activated Carbon in the name "got me"and so did same day delivery to my porch...

My fish tanks always liked the activated carbon ( charcoal ) and I was once was told this story from a old retired guy who owned a small RV in a RV park in the mountains of North Carolina that was only open 6 months of the year.

The old guy would place a stack of charcoal briquettes on a dinner plate and place it in the middle of the table or floor and believed it allowed his little RV to remain fresh after sitting closed up 6 months a year.

He believed it worked and I tried it in some enclosed utility trailers and even some old cars I was trying to remove odors from...
To this day I have no idea if it works or not?

I am starting to wonder... Do cabin air filters fall into the same "take my money forever scam" as inkjet printer cartridges and refrigerator water filters?

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[97prizm]

For myself I would drive a different route or move. No way on earth would I ever live near or drive somewhere dope fiends are using.

I just found out febreeze is now selling cabin filters, so maybe.

 

[97prizm]

Cigarette smoke is a far nastier aroma that weed smell.

I don't like either, now the smell of Jet A at tbe Airport I kinda like.

 

[Oliveoil2]

But the smell is outside so we'll be getting more of it until we clear the area.

Put your foot in it!!

 

[burbguy82]

Has anyone used a cabin air filter (CAF) that keeps out the smell of skunks and skunk weed? We have both skunks in the area and when I drive inside the Beltway some of the neighborhoods have the obvious smell of people smoking pot outside. It's getting pretty common. Not judging, just don't want to get high off secondary smoke. It also stinks and burns my nose. Skunk Weed or Stink Weed, I don't like it.

I assume you are in Cali? Another suggestions is simply leave California.

 

[ripcord]

Cigarette smoke is a far nastier aroma that weed smell.

Ugh... I vehemently disagree. I don't like either, but weed is way, way worse. Vomitous.

 

[nealberke]

I don't like either, now the smell of Jet A at tbe Airport I kinda like.

Is it like the smell of napalm in the morning?

 

[Marrk]

Skunks suck. The last time I let one smoke pot in my car, he had a Deep Purple CD and wouldn't stop playing "Smoke on the Water." Every time we passed a garbage dumpster, he said, "Pull over. Let's get some munchies." I was like "Dude, you need to chill."

 

[CleanSump]

I assume you are in Cali? Another suggestions is simply leave California.

Nope, just outside The Swamp. I'm being literal and not political when I say your Nation's Capitol smells like either a pack of skunks or potheads.

 

[ripcord]

Skunks suck. The last time I let one smoke pot in my car, he had a Deep Purple CD and wouldn't stop playing "Smoke on the Water." Every time we passed a garbage dumpster, he said, "Pull over. Let's get some munchies." I was like "Dude, you need to chill."

So you prefer acid to weed?

 

[burbguy82]

Nope, just outside The Swamp. I'm being literal and not political when I say your Nation's Capitol smells like either a pack of skunks or potheads.

Same thing. Just roll out.

 

[97prizm]

Is it like the smell of napalm in the morning?

Eh. Kind of a kerosene sweet smell, very unique.

 

[danstraylee]

Perhaps I smell it more than you as I'm on a motorcycle a lot or you live under a rock, or on a island or you don't venture outside of a "gated community" as its all over the place now, not limited to bad parts of town...

You ever drive on a interstate? Any Main Street USA? When on my motorcycle I very often ( most if not EVERY day ) smell it from the car ahead of me and I live in a high end resort area..

I ride a bike too. Just came off a cross country from South-West to South-East coast 6,600 miler a few months back. Not once did I have to deal with the smell of illicit substances. I've been around long enough to know where to avoid.

I keep off the beaten path and stay far away from resorts and other tourist destinations.

Sorry that you choose to be around the dregs and losers of our society.

 

[CleanSump]

Is it like the smell of napalm in the morning?

No. Napalm isn't Diesel or Jet fuel. It was a 3 part chemical mix of gasoline, polystyrene, and Palmitic Acid. The cans are aluminum and the mix will corrode them away if not used. Then you have to take them out away from everything, axe them open, and burn them.
Edit to add a note. When you axe open the cans the Napalm looks like spilling intestines.

 

[nealberke]

No. Napalm isn't Diesel or Jet fuel. It was a 3 part chemical mix of gasoline, polystyrene, and Palmitic Acid. The cans are aluminum and the mix will corrode them away if not used. Then you have to take them out away from everything, axe them open, and burn them.
Edit to add a note. When you axe open the cans the Napalm looks like spilling intestines.

So, you've been there.

 

[CleanSump]

So, you've been there.

Back in the '80s I made it a few times and it didn't get loaded and dropped a couple of times.