Is your new car making you sick?

[neil]

And to think I have been trying to keep my new car smell for 2 years now.

This is an interesting read.

http://www.smh.com.au/drive/motor-news/is-your-new-car-making-you-sick-20091015-gyij.html

[WABIT]

hahaha! ill commit suicide the day someone dies from "new car smell"

its like that "butter causes cancer" crap

entertaining read though

dom

[rayray086]

It's just overhype on scientific facts. Pretty much everything we do has some level of "danger" to it.

[Yevvy]

i'm sweet, mine still smells like leather

[Mrk_Mickey]

Hahaha...I got to the infertility part and couldn't read on because it was too funny.

What are we coming to?? Some people are so fussy.

[maca]

So when you rock up to BP and spray the new car smell perfume into your car.. There are really seats and a dashboard in those tanks? Who'dathunkenit.

I reckon that this is a case of it not not making you sick.

[The_Hawk]

Everything causes death...

[dylan8]

Everything causes death...

exactly right..

[Yevvy]

even oxygen that we need to survive. paradox

[neil]

i'm sweet, mine still smells like leather

Looks like you leather owners will die first.
Taken from the article
Chromium is another clandestine inclusion if you upgrade to leather. Commonly used in tanning to soften hides and stabilise colour, it is an allergen shown to cause infertility in tests on rats. A 2005 Japanese study of 101 Japanese cars found greater air pollution in luxury cars, which the study attributed to extensive interior leather trim.

[fuzion]

get some oc120 or any apc and spray your carpets, it'll eat the smell.

any proper deodoriser will eliminate the smell so you wont smell plastics!

[Manaz]

Looks like you leather owners will die first.
Taken from the article
Chromium is another clandestine inclusion if you upgrade to leather. Commonly used in tanning to soften hides and stabilise colour, it is an allergen shown to cause infertility in tests on rats. A 2005 Japanese study of 101 Japanese cars found greater air pollution in luxury cars, which the study attributed to extensive interior leather trim.

Thank goodness I'm not a rat!

[gregozedobe]

I have to admit that I don't enjoy the "new car" smell, so I did the obvious and left the windows down whenever I could. After about 6 months it was mostly gone, but i stll leave a window down when they are locked in my garage (and especially after I have been carting wet dogs around - another smell that is slightly less than pleasant).

[Spyda]

New car smell cant be worse for you than old car smell, or wet-floor-hot-day-oil-burning-no-cat-having mk1 smell

[OEM G60]

I can't see anywhere in that article that the new car smell is going to kill you, its about the hideous chemicals that are used in any type of construction nowadays that off-gas and can have negative effect on your health, and what could be done to prevent it. Spraying the inside of your car with more chemicals out of a can isn't going to solve the problem either.

Most of you guys will know that MDF is banned in some countrys, the main reason is its Formaldehyde ingredient which has hideous off-gasing effects on health also, its that 'new kitchen smell'. Formadehyde free MDF/Chipboard etc is now available

Asbestos is also banned in most countries now, and most people i know don't want to go near it, but when it comes to all these other chemicals used nobody seems to give a rats, not sure what it will take for people to realise how bad they are.

If we don't have to use dangerous off-gasing chemical crap in any type of construction, and there are safe alternatives then i'm all for it.