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cmbdiesel 03-15-2009 09:22 AM

Death Cars
 
We got a 07 Kia Rio at our shop from Enterprise that was suspected of being a death car. The poor bastid who had to bring it to us showed up with a nose full of vaseline and a dust mask. Stank so bad it couldn't come inside.
I could not find the source (I was the only one with stomach enough to get in the thing) Removed the seats, carpet, dash, trunk pad, no stains, no spots, just stank. (it came to be refered to as the Stank Car) Tried an ozone machine, industrial sized, for 5 days straight, didn't help. Tried it again for another 5 days, still the same. It ended up going to the auction. We had a good laugh imagining that car clearing out the auction bay.
The car was overdue to be returned to Enterprise for 2 months when it was found outside of New Haven abandoned. All we could think of that would make such a pervasive odor was something dead and stored in it.

Lesson to learn, if the car stinks, don't buy it. You might never get rid of the smell

Marty600 03-15-2009 11:05 AM

I start the diesel inside of garage a couple of times per winter, and let it run for 10-15 minutes, doors closed...That keeps the mice population down, gas'em...I had rodents chew up wiring on a car, further, there were newborn mice in the ductwork, it was a serious mess. The way to long-term store your ride is to slather a lot of cheap grease all around the bottom 1/3 of your tires/wheels, and if energetic, place coarse steel wool into the greased areas..then rodents will not climb up and into vehicle. This works best if you can gather up cheap used wheels. Also, 'Irish spring" soap is said to repel them, place a handful of bars in interior and under the hood...

nhdoc 03-15-2009 11:47 AM

I used to find acorns on top of the IM of my E300 so I put a couple of these in the garage:

http://www.d-conproducts.com/baits/bait-bit-trays.html

No more acorns after that, just some greenish mouse turds and then nothing more.

Now I just leave a tray of these pellets out there...about once a year it will be emptied by some critter who makes his way in there but doesn't realize these aren't food;)

I can say they work well to keep the garage and my cars from becoming a "winter home" for rodents.

Mark DiSilvestro 03-15-2009 01:14 PM

A customer at the shop where I used to work, kept bringing her '87 Poniac Grand-Am in with recurring electrical problems. Seems she regularly parked her car in a Washigton DC alley, next to a garbage-dumpster, and the local rats develped an appetite for her underhood driver's-side wiring harness. I finally wrapped the harness up with heater hose and the rats didn't seem to like the flavor of rubber so much.

About that same time, I was given an early '80s Toyota Celica for a tune-up & oil-change. The car had come in from NYC, and the first thing I found when I opened the hood was a huge dead rat baked onto the exhaust manifold, jammed up against the sparkplugs. The thing looked to be the size of a small cat, but appaenly had been baking so long that there was very little stench. Still, there was a slight extra charge for rat removal!

Happy Motoring, Mark

charmalu 03-15-2009 02:45 PM

July of 07 we drove to St. Louis and back to calif. but in the middle of NV. the timing chain broke, and towed the car the rest of the way home.

The car sat in front of the house for a week before I pulled the engine. I opened the hood and there were ants all over the inner fenders and mosing around the car. They were after the bugs in the radiator.

there was a large trail coming from the garden to the car. time for Raid.

Also the Yellow Jackets were picking the bugs off the head lights, bumper, and radiator.

We also have several flocks of wild Turkeys in the area. every once in a while they hang around for a week or so before moving on. It is interesting to look out the front window and see turkeys standing on top of the mercedes, and the muddy foot tracks.:(.
When we had the horse they use to hang around a lot more cleaning up on the grain from the hay, etc...

I guess the mice/rats don`t read the directions on the decon box, it says they go for water and die some where else. well my parts Datsun PU that sits under my Costco tube tent garage, along with all my other automotive parts and treasures, MB parts also has been a place for them to die.

I was smelling something dead and opened up the door, and the stink hit me like a wet horse blanket:(.


I wonder if moth balls would work to deter the little varmets?

Charlie

OldPokey 03-16-2009 09:30 AM

I've got horse feed in the garage. And cats. Ergo, no mice.

tompaah7503 03-16-2009 09:55 AM

Don't park under them trees either..

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/196/5...33eb88.jpg?v=0

:eek:

oldiesel 03-16-2009 09:18 PM

I have used mothballs whenever storing cars.Have worked out of the country on and off sometimes not getting home for as long as a year,never any rodent or bug damage.My wife hates the smell and it sometimes takes a week of using the car for the odor to subside to her satisfaction,as for me my sense of smell is pretty much gone so no problem. Don

mobetta 03-16-2009 10:26 PM

http://www.drillspot.com/pimages/1624/162406_300.jpg

made right here in Minnesota

Actros617 03-16-2009 11:15 PM

time to throw in the Mothballs in the engine compartment!!! and prepair to scoop up dead rats and birds...


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