extracting the headliner?

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marvin salud

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Heard that this helps to get the tobacco odor out, but I've also read somewhere that extracting will cause the fabric to become unglued. Anyways, has anyone had any experience with this situation?
 
Do your normal cleaning of the headliner, then spay it with Frabreeze. (that is not a correct spelling, but it is close enough to get you the product ). The stuff works great!
 
the only way I have found that truly gets rid of smoke smell is an ozone generator, both my parents are heavy smokers and after I purchased my generator from www.ozone1.com, theirs are the first cars I did, one 45 minute treatment each and the smell was gone, I have a small unit which cost around $300 but it has more than paid for itself in the short time I have had it, I have heard some people charge $100 dollars or more just to put his machine in someones car.
 
In a past life, I owned a Martini and Cigar Bar. Ozone generation works, no doubt about it!



For cars, I have a small unit that will do the job in an hour or so.

I still think that deep extraction of the upholstery and carpet is mandatory.



The combination will make customers for life!



This is the unit that I use , but I think you could find it for less than $400!



Jim
 
Do not use an extractor on a headliner. Most headliners are material glued to a cardboard backing. The water will destroy the glue on the back of the material causing it to sag, and it will also warp the backing of the liner.
 
ShowroomLincoln said:
Do not use an extractor on a headliner. Most headliners are material glued to a cardboard backing. The water will destroy the glue on the back of the material causing it to sag, and it will also warp the backing of the liner.
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I agree!



Extractors spray down a good amout of water and mine sucks pretty hard. I can imagine it might actually tear the headliner.



You might want to see if you can get the headliner replaced.
 
Thanks for all the replies. I found this site a month ago and have learned a lot because of it. An ozone generator is one of the items that I plan on getting in a few months. In the meantime i will use Febreeze and see if that works.
 
That actually Happand to someone I know Twice Once with a hot water steamer trying to clean scuff marks and once from the sunroof being open during a storm the headliner sagged like 4 inch's.
 
jessispop said:
the only way I have found that truly gets rid of smoke smell is an ozone generator, both my parents are heavy smokers and after I purchased my generator from www.ozone1.com, theirs are the first cars I did, one 45 minute treatment each and the smell was gone, I have a small unit which cost around $300 but it has more than paid for itself in the short time I have had it, I have heard some people charge $100 dollars or more just to put his machine in someones car.
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Which model do you have? I see they have "AutoZone" which plugs into the cigarette lighter...but 45 minutes on the car battery would be quite draining wouldn't it? I see on their site they recommend leaving the a/c fan on high so I guess you have to crank the car and let it idle for an hour?
 
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