Does anyone still remember when you just got your TL the first day , and the smell of a brand new car. I kinda miss that smell when I came to the dealership to check out the new TL type S , does anyone know what smell is that exactly ? leather ? But Integras that use cloth also smell like that

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2000 Nighthawk Black Pearl TL
Mugen Front Grille
Mugen Front Half Spoiler
My Dillema : Mugen springs VS Comptech Springs with Koni Shocks ..what shud i pick ?

 

I think its glue.

 

mine had the new leather smell for the first 60,000 miles...i thought it was weird...must have been the leather protectant...

 

After I use Meguiars Gold Class on my leather people comment on how t still has the new car smell.

 

I used to use Eagle One leather conditioner for my seats. I thought it was average. It didn't give the smell i desired, nor did it give a clean shine (w/o that greasy look). For our leather furniture in the house our maid uses Tanner's Preserve leather cleaner (spray btl) it is made by Eagle Ottawa. I tried using it on my leather, and i think its great. Luckily, my seats are in flawless shape, and if you don't need the moisture provided by a leather conditioner, i think this works great. Best of all it gives a good strong leather smell, yet its not too much.

 

What you can do and this may sound weird is leave the car parked in the sun....and that smell should come back up. thats what i do and when i get in it still has that new car smell

 

It's the oils in the leather seat.

 

What you are really smelling in a new car is the off gassing of the new plastic component. It is not exactly good for you. Who knows that stuff is probably toxic.

 

It's not the leather, it's the plastics and whatnot (as others have pointed out, cars without leather interiors still have the "new car smell").

I personally don't like it, it makes me kind of naseous. I drove around with the windows half-down for a month or two until it went away.

The straight dope on it (from the Straight Dope website no less) can be found here:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/990528.html

 

Hmm, very information article...makes ya wonder. DA

 

is it the plastics.. I read somewhere that it is the glue used in the seats and what not that exactly comprises the "new car" smell and subsequent hi that is achieved... well keep on enjoying it guys.. I hear that keeping the windows closed helps preserve it...

 

Thanks for the replies , you have a point in there , come to think about it I begin to realize that it mightn't be good.


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2000 Nighthawk Black Pearl TL
Mugen Front Grille
Mugen Front Half Spoiler
My Dillema : Mugen springs VS Comptech Springs with Koni Shocks ..what shud i pick ?

 

Yep, it's the oil in the leather all right. Last weekend, I applied the Hide Food conditioner to my driver seat, and the leathery smell is more noticeable, especially when the interior has been warmed from the car sitting in direct sunlight. I read that this Hide Food stuff is made of white spirits and rendered animal fat, so it's probably the closest thing to the leather's natural oils.

DA