will cabin air filter remove Skunk and Pot smells?

[nthach]

TBH, the carbon ones make a slight difference for smell. I’ve been using the Fram “N95-grade” or Spearhead “HEPA” filters off Amazon instead of the carbon ones.

 

[RBT]

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 have a charcoal one in the truck now. It worked very well. It was either Hengst or Mann. It is effective on weed, don’t have experience on the skunks.

 

[AuthorEditor]

Today's skunk weed is just incredibly pungent. Frequently, I detect a skunk weed car on the Interstate before I can even see it. IMHO avoid smoking anything anywhere near a car if you plan on selling it some day. I have turned down several used cars due to their odor.

 

[k1xv]

One of the pleasures of driving a convertible top down in the country is the ever changing smells as you go down the road. Peoples outdoor barbecues, forest smells, then, on the downside, chicken farms, sewage plants, and farmers fields where manure was recently spread.

One year I had a business trip to Madison Wisconsin in the Spring. My work ended on a Friday, and I decided to do a little sight seeing from the rented car and fly home on Sunday. Well, it was unusually warm, and it was the time of year when the farmers fertilized their fields with manure. The manure smell was overpowering everywhere. I wound up having to drive to Milwaukee to escape the smells. While in Milwaukee, I did take in an end of Spring Training exhibition baseball game.

 

[CleanSump]

One of the pleasures of driving a convertible top down in the country is the ever changing smells as you go down the road. Peoples outdoor barbecues, forest smells, then, on the downside, chicken farms, sewage plants, and farmers fields where manure was recently spread.

One year I had a business trip to Madison Wisconsin in the Spring. My work ended on a Friday, and I decided to do a little sight seeing from the rented car and fly home on Sunday. Well, it was unusually warm, and it was the time of year when the farmers fertilized their fields with manure. The manure smell was overpowering everywhere. I wound up having to drive to Milwaukee to escape the smells. While in Milwaukee, I did take in an end of Spring Training exhibition baseball game.

I like that smell. Well, cattle & horses, not pig manure. Reminds me of Summers at my grandpa's.

 

[Vexorg]

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.

Getting high from driving by someone smoking is impossible. Not even Cheech & Chong could generate that level of smoke.

 

[Vexorg]

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.

Activated charcoal has 920,000 sq ft per ounce which is why it is used for odor control.

Wiki link here for reference - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon

 

[CleanSump]

Getting high from driving by someone smoking is impossible. Not even Cheech & Chong could generate that level of smoke.

Too literal Dude. Too literal.

 

[Thebigm]

Cabin filters filter out particulates and dust, not smells.

Gee, I grew up in Northern New Jersey in a town called Kearny NJ. To the west was a linoleum factory. To the north was a plant that processed urea. To the east was garbage dumps and pig farms. To the south was a slaughter house. You could tell which way the wind was blowing by which smell was strongest.

Would have been nice to have filters that filtered out smells.

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