911 smells and odors

[LeRoux Strydom]

I was reading a thread recently on the Boxter board where the rattletrap, musty-smelling 911's were mentioned. My SC certainly has that "old car" interior smell, slightly musty, which btw is not unpleasant to me at least, and I have noticed it in almost every other 911 I've ever gotten into.

Has anybody cared enough to find a solution to this musty smell without ripping out the entire interior and making it an RS clone, or do you live with it the way it is, saying to yourself: "The good Dr designed 911's to smell this way, so it must be good" ?

No flaming for reading the Boxter board, please.

Regards

LeRoux

[tryan]

horsehair in the seats develops a certain funk. most older german cars have used this material. i ,personaly, like the smell.

[juanbenae]

myold vw bug had some funk about it and it was the seats. it seems the german seat cushions date themselves with the smell. funny though, it does not bother me in the 911

[Adam]

Old Benzes smell pretty wierd, too. Something about the materials used (MB-Tex) that exudes a fruity musk.

[johncj8989]

Its a classic smell...wouldnt change it if i could.

[Crachian]

I read on one of the PO's receipts that he had the car in for service and had them check for "a musty smell." Knowing it belongs makes it pleasant, unlike the '79 Buick wagon my Dad bought when I was a kid. I complained about the strong smell (I think it was a combination of glue and 50 yards of baby blue vinyl) and how it was making me sick to my stomach. It smelled not unlike a dry cleaners. He assured me it would go away. I was 11 with four younger siblings, and over the next 10 years we each vomited several times in that car, but the smell persisted. It never went away.

Anyway, some time ago, someone on this list posted a great idea: a small bag of pipe tobacco. Great idea, only twenty years too late for my kin.

[tobluforu]

Mine smells like tranny oil due to a leak-yuk. Must replace seal.

[Hetmann]

The smell in mine got to the point I needed to do something. I ripped out the back seat bottoms and took them apart. I stretched the material over some new padding and 1/4 inch plywood. Baddabing no more smell. At least no more bad smell.

[Joe Bob]

SC perfume....if it gets wierd or funky, I put the top down.....ooooppsiie, y'all can't do that in a coupe....

[Jeremy Cottrell]

Hey Wayne. New idea. Sell bottles of "old 911 smell" for Boxster owners to spray in thier cars.

[scg]

...and call it "Musk for Boxters"