I've got a smelly cabin problem. Not sure where to look. The basics - 2016 Tundra ltd. Stock interior with full weathertech floor mats. Since moving from Utah to Alaska it's started smelling terrible in the mornings. I'm not even totally sure how to describe it. Basically like when you go into an apartment building and you smell other people's cooking on each floor and you go: What are they cooking? That, plus crap. And mildew smell.
TBH it smells like a wet diaper that has sat for a few months and is now getting rotten or something along those lines. Not the same as the AC vent mildew issue that I've had in the past in my RX350.
It's strong when I get into the truck if I leave the windows up in the garage. But as soon as the doors are open for a bit it dissipates pretty quickly. I get down under the seats and smell around and I can't find anything. I've smelled the carpets, pulled the mats, checked under seats and in all the compartments. Nothing. And it doesn't seem to be coming from the HVAC. I put a new filter in and when it comes on the smell from the HVAC is clean air. I even tried some Ozium through the hvac to see if that would help. But now it's just chemically air freshener smell plus s*** in the morning. Didn't help the original smell at all.
Any ideas of other things to look at? Is there somewhere I'm not thinking of that a rodent could go die in the headliner from the sunroof area or something weird like that. I can't seem to even follow the scent because as soon as i open the doors to start sniffing around it goes away and I can't pinpoint it.
TIA
Edit: solved. Tonight I pulled everything out of the truck. Looked everywhere. Even looked in the roof between the headliner and the metal with a scope. It I finally stripped the car seats apart and there it was. Rotten milky substance in a compartment inside the kids seat. I didn't even know that area existed. I do now. Lol.
TBH it smells like a wet diaper that has sat for a few months and is now getting rotten or something along those lines. Not the same as the AC vent mildew issue that I've had in the past in my RX350.
It's strong when I get into the truck if I leave the windows up in the garage. But as soon as the doors are open for a bit it dissipates pretty quickly. I get down under the seats and smell around and I can't find anything. I've smelled the carpets, pulled the mats, checked under seats and in all the compartments. Nothing. And it doesn't seem to be coming from the HVAC. I put a new filter in and when it comes on the smell from the HVAC is clean air. I even tried some Ozium through the hvac to see if that would help. But now it's just chemically air freshener smell plus s*** in the morning. Didn't help the original smell at all.
Any ideas of other things to look at? Is there somewhere I'm not thinking of that a rodent could go die in the headliner from the sunroof area or something weird like that. I can't seem to even follow the scent because as soon as i open the doors to start sniffing around it goes away and I can't pinpoint it.
TIA
Edit: solved. Tonight I pulled everything out of the truck. Looked everywhere. Even looked in the roof between the headliner and the metal with a scope. It I finally stripped the car seats apart and there it was. Rotten milky substance in a compartment inside the kids seat. I didn't even know that area existed. I do now. Lol.
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