Whew, A close call!
 

This morning, I fired up the 300D, which I haven't driven in about 2 weeks. When I got back home, I noticed an object on the ground where the 300D had been parked. On closer examination, the object is an 8 inch tightly wound bundle of black and white hair. It would appear to be a freshly amputated skunk's tail, wound up as if caught in a crankshaft pulley. It's owner was nowhere to be found. Could have been a whole lot worse!

You are one VERY lucky person. I can't imagine having to clean up SMELLY wound up hambergerized skunk from the ole engine compartment. EEEEEEEEWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!! :eek:

YIKES! If that little guy had let go on your car it would have been months before you could drive it with the vent open. Boy are you lucky.

They people could say "That's a REALLY smelly diesel!":D

This is the time of year for Skunks being out quite often. Mating season? I guess. I hit one last week about fifty miles from the office and there was still enough perfume to smell up the parking garage pretty good.

If you've never been around someone or something that was wet down real good by one of those puddy tat's, then you know that even the worst amount of the stuff on a car is NOTHING by comparison.

My Grand Dad was wet down real good one time when I was a kid. He got in the cab of his pickup on one side, and I immediately got out on the other. I rode in the bed back to the house. I was at his house for two weeks and he still smelled really bad when I left. Nasty critters!

Have a great day,

Could be worse; someone on the Ford site that I go to was talking about a mouse building a nest in the intake of a Navistar 6.9l diesel...and the owner fired the truck up without knowing that there was a mouse in there...as he put it, "Mouse Flambe"...I don' tremember how much damage there was, or what the smell was like...but I doubt that I would really want to know :eek:

I have seen a mouse that hibernated in the exhaust pipe of an old 81' Suzuki Katana 1100 get a horrible suprise when my friend started the bike after its winter layup. The mouse left a gruesome splatmark on my garage door when the bike finally did fire up.

I hit a skunk at 3 A.M. with a company car a few years back. My employer instructed me to deodorize the car. I took it to a pro detailer shop. They spent $300.00 and that expense accomplished nothing. The old Mercury Sable smelled just as bad. Nothing gets the horrible stench of skunk out.