Natural ways to clean up your car

For saving your money, you can easily clean your car with natural ways by yourself as follows:

· To remove cigarette smell: use 2 tablespoons of baking soda, put it into a small bowl, and place the bowl with the baking soda in your car for 1-2 hours.

· To remove bad smell. There are three easy ways for eliminating it.

1. Put a handful of dried tea into a small canvas bag and hang it on your car’s console, which helps remove any bad smell in you car.

2. Pour 2-4 tablespoons of vinegar into a bowl and place it in your car for 1-2 hours. Acidity of the vinegar helps absorb the bad smell and gets rid of the bad smell in your car.

3. Put 2-3 pieces of charcoal into a small cloth bag and hang it on your car’s console. This can helps get rid of the bad smell in you car like it does in a fridge.

· To clean carpet in your car: the carpet can be a big cause to have the bad smell in your car. In addition to unpleased odor, it causes you car be a place where is attached to numerous germs.

- The auto carpet becomes wet: if your car’ carpet is not removable one, you should wipe it out, then park your car in the sunlight to bathe it and open the car’s windows slightly because heat will help your carpet quickly dry.

- The carpet is spotted with dirt: The spots may cause from coffee, food, or nail color remover, they can be removed by shampooing the carpet with auto carpet shampoo or wiping it out by rag with vinegar. And then bathe your car by opening its doors and windows.

- The carpet is sticked with gum: apply ice cube to the dirt with the gum; the coldness of the ice will help the gum smoothly slip out of the carpet. Then, you can use a spoon to remove the gum. That’s it!

When you apply these natural ways to your beloved car, it helps save your money for your car maintenance in the future instead of wasting your money for car care.

(Source: “Tips & Techniques”. Honda Automobile 2011, 2. P. 23.)