I work in a body shop, and we have a customer which we have worked on several of their cars but they always smell wretched. This is a 2014 model and it smells just as bad as their late-90's van we worked on earlier this year.
So, it's a minivan that a tree fell on. basically bent the entire top all the way across, doing minimal damage to the tops of the doors and such, but it did break the rear glass. Insurance didn't total it, gave us a little over $9000 to replace the top. We're a small shop, with just me and my 75 year old boss who recently had a heart attack and is still recovering, so basically I'm doing most of the work.
I can't stand to be within 6 feet of this van outside in the open air without wanting to vomit. It smells that bad. It's not mildew or trash, it just smells like somebody took a shit all over the inside of the van and wiped their ass on the seats when it was brand new, then left it sitting in the summer sun for the past 3 years. I don't understand how a car can smell so bad.
So, the thing is going to be in the shop a while. Like, it probably won't be done until sometime in January, and it's going to be sitting inside the enclosed area of our little shop, during winter, so we can't open the doors to air the shop out without being freezing. I'm stuck inside this little garage with a stinky car, and will be constantly going in and out of it to make the necessary repairs/replacement.
I want to know what I can do to minimize the smell and make it tolerable while working on it. I also have asthma and things like Febreze will make it hard for me to breathe, plus I always feel like it just ends up smelling like shit AND flowers or whatever the hell it's supposed to smell like. So, what can be done?
Submitted December 15, 2017 at 05:10AM by Aldakoopa http://ift.tt/2CF5TuU