Smoking in hire car - fine

Head_The_Ball

Strider590 wrote: »

Smoking in cars..... I don't know why smokers can't understand this, but if someone smokes in a car (even once) you can smell it for months, if not years afterwards and this makes the car less desirable in the used car market.

When I bought my latest car, two of the check points were "has the lighter ever been used?" And turn the heater/ac on flat out "does it smell like an ashtray? (A sort of burnt dog !!!! smell).

We have turned down a few house purchases because of smokers.

An otherwise nice house stank because the owner was a pipe smoker. There was a disgusting brown film on every surface.

Another house had a huge tobacco stain on the ceiling above the bed in the main bedroom. It also stank.

It is almost impossible to get rid of the stench from houses and cars that have experienced a lot of smoking.

Herzlos

Guest101 wrote: »

That makes the assumption that people intend to sell on their cars

The rental company will almost certainly sell the car on within the first year.

Strider590

Head_The_Ball wrote: »

We have turned down a few house purchases because of smokers.

An otherwise nice house stank because the owner was a pipe smoker. There was a disgusting brown film on every surface.

Another house had a huge tobacco stain on the ceiling above the bed in the main bedroom. It also stank.

It is almost impossible to get rid of the stench from houses and cars that have experienced a lot of smoking.

Same thing when I was in the market for a house, one place massively cheaper than houses around it, basically because everything including the windows had a yellow film over it caused by the previous owner smoking. Great property otherwise, but needed painting top to bottom, cleaning and new carpets throughout.

With homes and cars alike, I think smokers convince themselves that nobody will be able to tell.

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It's surprising the amount of folk I still see smoking in work vans and company branded cars. Considering it's been illegal to smoke in a workplace since 2007.

HornetSaver

Herzlos wrote: »

I can't remember the legislation that banned smoking in hotel rooms, so I'm not sure if it'd apply to hire cars.

To my knowledge it's still legal to offer smoking rooms in hotels (it's illegal to offer a room that has been smoked in without making this explicitly clear).

EDIT: Source http://www.smokefreeengland.co.uk/faq/exemptions/

Richard53

Strider590 wrote: »

Smoking in cars..... I don't know why smokers can't understand this, but if someone smokes in a car (even once) you can smell it for months, if not years afterwards and this makes the car less desirable in the used car market.

I was in the market for an estate car a while ago. I knew exactly what I wanted, even down to the colour, and a low-mileage, FSH example came up within 3 miles of my house. When I got to see it, it was yellow throughout the interior, even the inside of the windscreen. I opened the driver's door and put my head in. I couldn't have driven a hundred yards in that car. No sale!

Head_The_Ball wrote: »

It is almost impossible to get rid of the stench from houses and cars that have experienced a lot of smoking.

My wife and I used to smoke - fortunately only in one room of the house. When it came to redecoration, we had to have a coat of oil paint on every surface, including ceilings and walls, as the stain and odour would get through water-based paints within a few weeks. The oil paint, plus a good clean of the carpets, sorted it.


If you smoke, don't try to sell a house or car to an ex-smoker - we can detect the smell in concentrations non-smokers cannot imagine!