I would agree with this. At some point, you've cleaned out the majority of it, but a small portion remains that your noise/brain just tells you is the "normal" smell of the car. I haven't smelled the car you cleaned, ClutchDisc, so it's possible you did get it 99% clean...theholycow wrote:It also helps to have a smoker's sense of smell, so when the smell is 40% gone you will think it's 100% gone.
But in my experience, most vehicles retain some portion of that smell - even if an effort is made to clean them.