Funny Smell In New Beetle

bigron62

bigron62

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i just extracted the interior of a 2000 new beetle with fabric interior..has a very strong smell like wax or crayons .. its real strong .. i extracted the heck out of this thing with my mytee hp60. it was so hot it was burning my hand .. loaded it with fragrance ... i even did the headliner twice .. didnt faze it .. is this a problem with these cars or is this an isolated case .. also any advice on how to get rid of this odor without on ozone machine .. its not coming from the vents .. :bigscream :ranton :dunno :dunno
 
RON

Are you using the extractor on the head liners? I hope not the heat from the water will melt the glue holding up the fabric.

As for the smell it might be the rugs and seats are wet still and get a mold smeel until they are dry
 
Probably just the odor of the new car. The material in those interiors, if I remember correctly, are not your standard fabric. The Honda Element is the same way in my opinion.
 
Smells are funny,
We always try to compare them to smelling like something similar even though we know its really not that something similar that's causing the smell and they really aren't that similar.

and

We always want to know what causes them but would probably wish we didn't know if we really knew what did!
 
It's kinda like farts. We all take a few sniffs and aren't grossed out until we realize its a fart. Bigron, just think, you probably sniffed and sniffed to identify what that smell was. If you knew, would you really want to know?

Sorry, not detail related, just though it was funny.
 
BigRon

Go to your lcaol P&S guys and get a order bomb. Its like a room fogger that might do it, sounds like its embedded into the material of the car.

Question did this order just appear or is this something that has been in the car since new
 
my neighbors ex girlfriend had the car and then she was out of the picture .. new girlfriend noticed odor and wants it gone .. it smells like candle wax or crayon .. so strong that the smell sticks to your clothes
 
Pull the seat unless you can see under well. Something melted in the car or something along those lines and was not remvoed all the way
 
I was told that sometimes workers on the VW assembly line will die on the job. To avoid paying death benefits, the company will stuff the dead bodies into the trunks of the new cars and send them to America and let someone else deal with them. Maybe this is what happened to your Beetle. Check with the factory and see if they have any missing assembly line workers in 2000.


Oh come on. I thought this was hilarious.
 
freedre said:
I was told that sometimes workers on the VW assembly line will die on the job. To avoid paying death benefits, the company will stuff the dead bodies into the trunks of the new cars and send them to America and let someone else deal with them. Maybe this is what happened to your Beetle. Check with the factory and see if they have any missing assembly line workers in 2000.


Oh come on. I thought this was hilarious.
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Now that....is funny ROFLMAO :lmfao
 
is this payback for the NU-FINISH stuff ive been posting lately ... i can take it as well as dish it out:lmfao :LOLOL :lol :shift :naughty :rolling :rolling
 
my wife was looking at buying a used beetle, the thing was like brand new only had like 10K miles on it, we took it for a ride and all I could smell was crayon. It's not you or that car those things must all smell that way. We ended up not buying it just for that reason.
 
I've been inside MANY newer VWs and 95% of them smell like feet. Someone who has wicked foot odor. This is probably the same smell you are sensing. Its just the way they are made and possibly the factory has something to do with it too.
 
Funny smell in New Beetle

Actually, the crayon smell is like "farts" or your "new car smell," or your imagination. I own a NB 2001 GLX, and I have that same crayon smell. According to some VW forums I've come across, it's somme sort of underspary VW did on Jettas and Beetles that, in hot weather, emits a wax smell. Apparently, there's nothing you can do. It won't go away.
 
Just a thought -- most imports are treated with either transit coat or cosmoline on the inside of the doors, under the hood, and between body panels. It is a type of rust-proofing that prevents damage while in transport, as well as later on down the road. If it is the latter, it is a waxy crayon like substance that in the heat of summer will tend to soften and emit fumes. Look around the lower door seams (the drain holes way at the bottom), in the body seams under the hood, trunk, etc. and if there is a whitish, maybe slightly yellowish light brown substance seeping out that feels like carnuba, sure as sh*t you have found your problem. There really is no solution though, for it is applied inside the cavities.

I know about this stuff because I used to apply it as an after market upgrade before it became standard equipment on most cars, and later on had to remove it from many cars for shows and advertising photo shoots.

Here is a link that might help some of our younger detailers "visualize" what it is, where it is, what it does, and how it gets there:

http://www.waxoyl.com/en/produkte/120-4.htm
 
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