New Car Smell Missing Already???
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12-20-2000, 08:48 PM
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New Car Smell Missing Already???
Ok, weird topic alert! 
My 1997 F-150 kept its new car smell for nearly two years. I LOVE that smell! (My wife hates it, btw.) Anyhow, the HD truck barely had any of the smell when I picked it up new, and now it's entirely gone. I keep the windows rolled up nearly all the time and the truck is always garaged and out of the sun.
I suspect that the smell is from the glues, etc. used in assembly. The 1997 truck had a cloth interior, and course, the new one has the leather captain's chairs. Could this difference be the answer? What is it other than new carpeting and various glues that give a new vehicle that wonderful new smell?
I've been robbed!
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[This message has been edited by HarleyGuy (edited 12-20-2000).]
My 1997 F-150 kept its new car smell for nearly two years. I LOVE that smell! (My wife hates it, btw.) Anyhow, the HD truck barely had any of the smell when I picked it up new, and now it's entirely gone. I keep the windows rolled up nearly all the time and the truck is always garaged and out of the sun.I suspect that the smell is from the glues, etc. used in assembly. The 1997 truck had a cloth interior, and course, the new one has the leather captain's chairs. Could this difference be the answer? What is it other than new carpeting and various glues that give a new vehicle that wonderful new smell?
I've been robbed!
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'00 F-150 Harley-Davidson Edition
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Superchip
K&N FIPK
Hidden Hitch w/Harley Logo
Peronalized Plate: F150 HD
'99 FLHRCI '95 XLH
[This message has been edited by HarleyGuy (edited 12-20-2000).]
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12-20-2000, 10:24 PM
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I'm a smoker but if I haven't driven the truck for a week or so (I don't keep it in the city) I still have a bit of new car smell but quite honestly I never thought the HD smell was that pleasing--leather or what I dunno but not what my SVT Contour with a bit of leather after 2 years and lots of smoking still exhibits a whiff of 'new' car smell if not driven for a week or so. Leather, glue, dunno but it still has original smell when left alone. And it sits outside, not garaged.
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12-20-2000, 11:59 PM
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The 1997 F-150 (the one that kept the new smell) was grabbed by yours truly right of the delivery truck. A friend of mine called on a cell phone as he was on lunch and said he saw a truck that looked like I had described mine on a truck driving into town. I called my dealer and told them I'd like to pick my truck up immediately. They said it wasn't there yet, I told the guy to look out the window in about 5 minutes and it would be! 
Perhaps, that's why it kept the new smell? It didn't sit around at a dealership with windows down, and whatever, for a month or two like the Harley truck likely did.
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Perhaps, that's why it kept the new smell? It didn't sit around at a dealership with windows down, and whatever, for a month or two like the Harley truck likely did.
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'00 F-150 Harley-Davidson Edition
Hard Tonneau Cover
Superchip
K&N FIPK
Hidden Hitch w/Harley Logo
Peronalized Plate: F150 HD
'99 FLHRCI '95 XLH