That New Car Smell

[Edward]

I read somewhere that the "New car smell" actually came from the plastics reacting to the sun and giving off formaldehyde. If that's the case, I'll skip the New car smell thank you!

 

[Critter]

One reason I am choosing to pick mine up and haul it back home. I am allergic to many artifical smells. Formaldehyde is one that causes strong reactions.
If the weather is not rainy, I will have the windows cracked open so it will vent on the way home.

 

[Husker1]

I thought it was the various adhesives used during the manufacturing process.

I Think your close on this. Every time I put a new headliner in a car it always gives it that new car smell.

 

[JEBar]

I thought it was the various adhesives used during the manufacturing process.

with campers the formaldehyde smell comes mostly from the glue used in making the particle board/structure board .... without knowing what type glue they will use to glue the body panels to the frame, I'd tend to believe that won't be an issue .... the leather seats option and plastic used could certainly contribute

Jim

 

[wizard of ahs]

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[RUCRAYZE]

One reason I am choosing to pick mine up and haul it back home. I am allergic to many artifical smells. Formaldehyde is one that causes strong reactions.
If the weather is not rainy, I will have the windows cracked open so it will vent on the way home.

Don't forget to order the rear window swing-out option

 

[msmith5150]

It's WAY more car than it is motorcycle, everything is the same as a car just cut in half down the middle. so yes, it will "smell" like a new car

 

[Bert]

It's WAY more car than it is motorcycle, everything is the same as a car just cut in half down the middle. so yes, it will "smell" like a new car

Or, half a new car..

 

[msmith5150]

Or, half a new car..

touché!

 

[Lil4X]

Don't know if it still applies to modern cars, but several years ago vinyl dashboards in a new car would outgas sufficient quantities of benzene as to make the car's cabin an OSHA "hazardous workplace" for the first two or three years on the road. Particularly in European cars left in the hot sun for a few hours a day, their vinyl interior would "evaporate" so many chemicals that the windows would slowly collect a white film, requiring the interior of the windows to be cleaned every two or three months.