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Vehicle: Car: Fumes
New Car Smell Valve   (+2)  [vote for, against]
I read that new car smell is actually toxic solvents, and that cars outgass kilograms during their first year. Simply have a foam or PTFE valve make the car outgass twenty times faster

I read that New Car Smell is toxic [link], so just have a passive barrier valve cause it to exit the car many times faster.

What is a passive barrier valve? Just think of memory foam mattress toppers, they exapand and become more air-passable when slightly warmed and automatically shrink when cool. This would make cars hyperporous on warm days, improving outgassing. PTFE-tex might just keep external odors out, or it might not.
-- beanangel, May 10 2017

Volvo likes ridding its vehicles of that new car smell. https://www.edmunds...smell-be-toxic.html
[beanangel, May 10 2017]

There are plenty of smelly things you could have in your car that are not toxic.

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I wonder what Hertz or Avis would say about losing the new car smell early from their rental fleet.
-- popbottle, May 10 2017


You seem to be proposing to make flow easier (overall) by adding a (variable) restriction.
-- notexactly, May 13 2017


Do cars not have openable windows nowadays?
-- pocmloc, May 13 2017



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