Magic Tree's ?!?!?!

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Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:45 pm

Is there anything better that a Magic Tree for a car smellie?
They seem to last 2 mins
What do you use?
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Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:48 pm

the best one i have used is a poppy coral
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Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:54 pm

a dollop of grease on the exhaust manifold does the trick, or even a splash of Castrol...
new car smell lucky tree also smells rather good, your right though they dont last very long :mad:
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what about a big bag of skunk in the ashtray? winkeye
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Speedway smell?
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Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:13 am

i used to use the vanilla ones but they seem to have been better years ago
Just like mars bars were bigger lol
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Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:17 am

sweep wrote:Speedway smell?
yeah castrol
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Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:33 pm

Air wick ones :)

The pacifc ones are the best £3.88 at the moment in halfrauds, the airwick 1.99 ones are good aswell

they seem to last around 4-5 weeks :)
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Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:19 pm

The magic trees are like throwing £1.00 out the window for me. When the roof is down, the scent goes with the wind in less then 2mins.

I really have to do something with the smell in my car.
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Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:25 pm

You do know that you are only supposed to open a portion of the packet up at a time to keep the smell for as long as possible? thats why it has those markings on the back. I can never be assed doing that for a sake of some change!
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Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:43 pm

i like the way my car smells like an elderly germans scrotum 8O :D no smelly tree for me!
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gareth wrote:i like the way my car smells like an elderly germans scrotum 8O :D no smelly tree for me!
Ahhh the old BMW smell ! funny how they all smell the same !
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My car at the pod last year,
that was one magic tree a week and not throwing the old ones away and the car still stunk :banghead:

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I pulled the carpet out recently and pressure washed all the ming out then used a vax with deodoriser to give it a good scrub, and suck the water out

E30 carpets hold a lot of water 8O

smell has gone :D
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Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:06 pm

LOL when i bought my Triumph acclaim years ago i had that many magic trees in it
owner must of had very smelly passangers :wink:
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http://www.chemicalguysuk.com/category_s/23.htm

A spray type product sprayed into the air vents (two or three pumps per vent) lasts pretty well, Helps get to the cause of the old smell which is bacteria on the vents. Works well.

I often spray one or two pumps into the rear footwells too just for a quick fix.
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Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:13 pm

a bag of blueberry bud in the mtec 1 steering wheel cap :wink:
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Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:14 pm

leeparkes wrote:My car at the pod last year,
that was one magic tree a week and not throwing the old ones away and the car still stunk :banghead:

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That's nothing! look at this:

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I saw that a local car show about 3 months ago :chuckle:
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Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:18 pm

The 3d Jelly Belly,s from Halfords ain,t too bad.

Gareth, i dread to think how you know what an elderly Germans scrotum smells like.
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gooner1 wrote: Gareth, i dread to think how you know what an elderly Germans scrotum smells like.
pure assumption my good fellow! :D
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autoglym do a nice deodoriser spray for cars
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Gliptone Liquid Leather - leather smell ftw imo. 8)
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Never let a smelly tree lay on the dash in the sun did it in the van and have a sorta weird patch there now
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Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:28 pm

bobbin1982 wrote:i used to use the vanilla ones but they seem to have been better years ago
Just like mars bars were bigger lol
Yeah I thought that.....bought one a few months ago and thought it was crap.....the vanilliaroma (think thats what they were called) or circa 94 were better.
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Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:58 pm

Falkster wrote:
bobbin1982 wrote:i used to use the vanilla ones but they seem to have been better years ago
Just like mars bars were bigger lol
Yeah I thought that.....bought one a few months ago and thought it was crap.....the vanilliaroma (think thats what they were called) or circa 94 were better.

Didn't really like them, smelt too much like ice cream that had been dropped on the carpet and left to rot in the car.....
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Bazza loves a magic tree. I reckon it's to lose the smell of Bifta

I just lay loads of farts down in mine. I like to drive alone :o:
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Hmmm Not one that Magic tree have release yet Trev, "pungent guff" The smell of a gentlemans undercrackers. :)
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d6dph wrote:Hmmm Not one that Magic tree have release yet Trev, "pungent guff" The smell of a gentlemans undercrackers. :)
I dont see it being a hit either 8O winkeye
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Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:32 pm

how about just cleaning the car and the seats properly ??? should get rid of the smell :P


also using it regularly so it doesnt get damp and stay damp :P
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Mon Sep 07, 2009 6:26 pm

bobbin1982 wrote:what about a big bag of skunk in the ashtray? winkeye
this is my cars smell but the law seem to search it for a long old while before they say "right sonny we know it's in there you're just lucky we can't find it" but damn it smells so sweet.


as for the magic trees i use the black ice one which seems to last about 3-4 weeks.
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Mon Sep 07, 2009 6:32 pm

just replied on this with out reading the posts lol, ive got green magic trees in all my cars and vans always have had for the last 20 years.
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Sat Oct 03, 2009 4:44 pm

Feu Orange FTW ! Shame they seem almost impossible to get now !
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Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:11 pm

never seen an orange on... all i ever see is vannila , black ice and the green one
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Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:15 pm

ohhhh you mean the air freshener

ooops i'll get me coat, not the magic tree i had in mind :rasta: winkeye
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Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:46 pm

a nice proportion of Zone stoners i'm pleased to see. Bubblegum magic trees seemed to last a bit longer than the normal ones, but the longest lasting i've had are asda smart price ones. They smell pretty cheap but better than eau de water ingress
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Magic tree new car scent FTW!
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