I had a Ranger that I bought used a few years back. The original owner was a smoker, and even though the dealer 'detailed' it, it still smelled. I picked a nice warm day, and sprayed the entire interior with almost a whole can of Febreze. Then I just let it sit, with the doors wide open for 10-12 hours, and believe it or not, that took care of it! Now they have different scented Febreze, so you can pick one that you like. I actually should do my Mustang to get rid of that old car smell. I use a Black Ice air freshener, under the drivers seat, and it smells pretty good.
If you don't have a few coffee stains and grease stains somewhere in your Mustang, you're not doing it right.
You ever driven an SN-95 Mustang? Whoever designed the placement of the cupholders was a complete f**king moron. My shift knob will hit anything placed in the smaller front cupholder in 2nd and 4th gear. The rear cupholder w/ clearance for shifting is freaking huge and no-one makes a single serve cup/bottle that fits it... so you either knock your drink down from shifting, or it falls out of the huge cupholder during a turn.... and I hate it...
haha I thought I was the only one that had noticed that..... My monster can fits in there perfect. I'm going to pull the carpet out eventually for black but thats a ways down the road. I guess I'm going to try some carpet powder and vacume it out good.... only like 3 weeks more of driving before I go to the desert anyways, I dread when I first get into it 5 months from now.
That's my cup holder too ! If they give me a cup that's too large to fit there I make them give me a smaller one.
I've had people ride in my car and say "all these old Mustangs all smell alike". But the truth is, I've hauled so much stuff in my hatchback (usually car parts that leak oil or something) that I'm ashamed to say. And I tend to keep my work gloves in the back floor board and oft times they are soaked with diesel fluid. Plus I had a leak at the pinion flange in my car for a long time, and you know how that rear end fluid smells (like a burnt pole cat) !
If they complain too loudly I usually just snap their neck and sling them around a little bit. That usually brings them around !
I'm going to say I like my 88's smell better than I did my 90's smell. My 90's former owner was a woman who drove it nice but she must have been a chain smoker that didn't open the windows. I extractor cleaned all fabric parts and it still had that smell. The smoke smell went away but there was just this foul smell that kind of haunted it. Didn't smell like smoke, just had an "ikk" to it. Even the plastic under the dash had that foul smell. Made me hate working on it sometimes. My 88 belonged to one non smoker owner who kept it clean. It sits in the garage a lot, so it gets that smell. But isn't bad.