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first time we've had the Polara out on a hot day, some point in the past someone has barff over the steering wheel, it's that smell that once noticed you can never ignore I've removed the wheel cover and washed the wheel with three different soaps and a uPVC cleaner, it's still there! Definitely on the wheel.Help please!!
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Re: Barff
Yep,my 70 Fury smelt the same on hot days,thorough clean with alcohol wipes helped a bit.
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Re: Barff
Apparently a lot of old steering wheels contained butyric acid, which is "a carboxylic acid found in rancid butter, parmesan cheese, and vomit, and has an unpleasant odor and acrid taste, with a sweetish aftertaste (similar to ether)"
"Butyric acid, along with acetic acid, can be reacted with cellulose to produce the organic ester cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB), which is used in a wide variety of tools, parts, and coatings and is more resistant to degradation than cellulose acetate. However, CAB can degrade with exposure to heat and moisture, releasing butyric acid. This process is sometimes observed in the unpleasant, vomit-like odor of aging screwdrivers and other hand tools"
...so I don't think anything will take the smell away once it starts degrading.
"Butyric acid, along with acetic acid, can be reacted with cellulose to produce the organic ester cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB), which is used in a wide variety of tools, parts, and coatings and is more resistant to degradation than cellulose acetate. However, CAB can degrade with exposure to heat and moisture, releasing butyric acid. This process is sometimes observed in the unpleasant, vomit-like odor of aging screwdrivers and other hand tools"
...so I don't think anything will take the smell away once it starts degrading.
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Re: Barff
I think it stem,s from some undesireable of which there are plenty driving along whlst pleasuring them selves in the rusty sheriffs badge with there middle finger then transferring said stink pipe to the steering wheel, you will NOT get rid of that smell.
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Re: Barff
I'm going to burn my steering wheel now!Cannonball wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 18 1:38 pm I think it stem,s from some undesireable of which there are plenty driving along whlst pleasuring them selves in the rusty sheriffs badge with there middle finger then transferring said stink pipe to the steering wheel, you will NOT get rid of that smell.
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Re: Barff
Thats worryingly descriptive.Cannonball wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 18 1:38 pm I think it stem,s from some undesireable of which there are plenty driving along whlst pleasuring them selves in the rusty sheriffs badge with there middle finger then transferring said stink pipe to the steering wheel, you will NOT get rid of that smell.
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Re: Barff
Can it be coated in something (the steering wheel, not Dunc's stink finger ) maybe sprayed in 2 pac satin clear, or something like that.....
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Re: Barff
I just read what Dunc said, epic !