【Car owner's car knowledge】The new car I just bought has a strange smell, what should I do? Now teach everyone to quickly and effectively remove the odor of new cars, make your car fresh and healthy, and wake up driving vitality!
Just got a new car, and within a few days of driving, Ronaldinho started to get angry with her husband.
It turned out that Ronaldinho bought a new Cruze. In order to facilitate the maintenance, he specially asked the 4S shop to replace the fabric seats with leather. In the new car, there is an unexplainable smell, but this time, the smell of leather mixed with it is even more unpleasant.
When driving on the road with her husband, she insisted on opening the window to drive away the formaldehyde smell, but her husband disagreed and insisted on closing the window to turn on the internal circulation, and the reason given was also eloquent: "The PM2. The smog is so heavy, it's no less toxic than the smell in your car."
After a quarrel, Ronaldinho still felt that driving on the road with the windows closed for a long time would make his head dizzy, so he would rather open the window to inhale the exhaust.
The reporter visited a number of 4S stores in Hangzhou, and many car owners who have already picked up the car reported that the new car has a strong odor. So, where do these inexplicable flavors come from? What are the ways to get rid of these odors?
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Some new cars have ten times more formaldehyde than the standard
"A new car always has a smell. It should be considered a normal phenomenon." This is the answer that the reporter heard the most in this interview. The people who answered include car manufacturers, dealers, and people like Ronaldinho just now. consumers buying new cars.
At a large-scale international auto show that ended in Shenzhen, an authoritative organization conducted a formaldehyde excess test on new cars sold on the spot. Subsequent reports showed that only one of the first batch of 55 new vehicles tested met the standard, and some models even exceeded the standard by more than ten times.
Such figures are quite shocking. The new car we bought with joy turned out to be a "gas hood"!
This is reminiscent of a rights protection incident that broke out in Shenzhen in the first half of this year. 15 Mercedes-Benz owners wore masks, not to prevent SARS, but to file a group complaint on behalf of more than 160 Mercedes-Benz owners with car purchase invoices and medical records from medical institutions. The reason is that the odor inside the Mercedes-Benz C-Class produced by Beijing Dyke Company, which they purchased from 2008 to 2012, far exceeded the odor of a new car. Some car owners even detected cancer, and pregnant women found fetal malformations.
Not only Mercedes-Benz, but most new car owners reported that almost all the cars they just bought had a "can't tell" smell, and it was easy to get dizzy after staying in the car for a long time.
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Where does the "odor" of a new car come from?
"In fact, most of the peculiar smells smelled by new car owners are the odors emitted by the excessive content of formaldehyde or benzene in the car." Jia Xinguang (Weibo), chief analyst of the Automobile Industry Consulting Development Company, said that the excessive formaldehyde in the air of new cars is mostly from the seat of the car. Upholstery materials such as chair sofa cushions, roof upholstery linings, etc., while benzene comes from adhesives.
According to Jia Xinguang, some luxury brand new car odors come from the damping sheet, which is a viscoelastic material attached to the inner surface of the car body, which is close to the steel plate wall of the car body, mainly to reduce noise and vibration. . "The air pollution in the three luxury brands' cars exposed by CCTV in March this year is due to the use of toxic asphalt damping sheets in these models."
The after-sales manager of the FAW-Volkswagen Bairui store on Daguan Road, Hangzhou told reporters that there are usually three sources of odors in new cars: first, the parts of the new car will emit harmful gases; second, the plastic parts, carpets and roof felts installed in the car , seats, etc. will also emit related odors, and harmful gases include benzene, formaldehyde, acetone, and xylene; third, due to the poor air conditioning or cabin sealing, external pollutants enter the car and cause pollution.
According to Changan Ford technicians, at present, traditional oil-based paints are commonly used in vehicle painting in the domestic auto maintenance industry, and oil-based paints contain more volatile organic compounds. health hazards.
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How to get rid of new car smell?
Luo Lei, deputy secretary-general of China Automobile Dealers Association, suggested that consumers should open the car door and smell the smell when purchasing a vehicle, especially for car owners with pregnant women and children, try to choose no odor or light odor, which meets national standards 's model.
In the early stage of buying a new car, it is best to open the door before getting in the car to disperse the odor. It is best not to close the window from time to time during driving, and open the window properly in the section with relatively good air quality, even if there is a gap. Greatly reduce the smell of new cars. When using the air conditioner, the external circulation mode should be used more.
The after-sales supervisor of GAC Toyota's 4S shop told reporters that if the smell is from the leather seats, just open more windows and it will dissipate soon. If it is caused by floor glue, floor mats, etc., it can be removed or thrown away. "Using air fresheners or perfume to cover up car odors is a cure-all."
The reporter also collected some methods to remove the odor of new cars from the after-sales service departments of many 4S stores.
The most common is to place a large number of bamboo charcoal bags in the car, or wrap the purchased bamboo charcoal with clean, breathable gauze and put it in the car and trunk, which can absorb the smell of formaldehyde in the car.
When the car is not in use, the car owner can make a small bucket of clean water, add some vinegar and put it in the car, because the water can absorb formaldehyde, and the vinegar can play a role in stabilizing formaldehyde.
If possible, it is best to place an air purifier. The current air purifier products are very mature. They can not only remove harmful gases such as formaldehyde and benzene, but also remove odor, sterilize and release vitamin oxygen.
In addition, you can also go to the car maintenance center to do negative ion removal service, the effect is obvious, and the air purification effect can be maintained for a month. The reporter learned that now some large car maintenance centers have this service.
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