C7 interior smell
Instructor
Joined: Jun 2014
Posts: 242
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Le Mans Master
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 6,970
Likes: 14
From: Calif
Safety Car
Joined: Mar 2014
Posts: 4,483
Likes: 668
From: Kilmarnock Va
The smell on my C7 wasn't fantastic also.It wasn't the usual smell that you get from an average new car.Definitely heavy chemical.It definitely faded after A couple months.Now I
Don't smell anything.
Don't smell anything.
Racer
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 375
Likes: 8
From: Boise Idaho
I am doing everything I know to preserve the "new car smell" which to me is sublime! I leave the windows closed - car stays in the garage - never carry hot food (pizza, wings, chinese etc.) inside, and if anybody tries to smoke in the car it's time to make arrangements at the funeral parlor!!!!
Love that new car smell!
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Intermediate
Joined: Jul 2014
Posts: 34
Likes: 4
From: Atlanta GA
Oooh That smell
6 months later - the smell is almost entirely gone - I suspect once the hot weather returns, I will once again be greeted with the "new corvette aroma" AHHHHHHH....Memories .....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDB-yswOrzc
Melting Slicks
Joined: May 2013
Posts: 2,416
Likes: 805
From: Argyle, Texas
Yup my 3LT smells great, my wife who has super human smell powers due to pregnancy couldn't even stand near the new 2LT's in the dealer showroom because of the glue smell. The 3LT was just bearable for her sensitive nostrils on the first day and I just left the top off in the garage overnight and she said the smell was much more agreeable.
Now that I have had her for 2 months the smell is only leather...and burnt rubber
Now that I have had her for 2 months the smell is only leather...and burnt rubber
Burning Brakes
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 841
Likes: 72
From: NC
Plenty of new cars in my past here too, and agree the C7 smell is different, but it's slowly going away, and I find I'm smiling too much to notice it after driving awhile. 
