de-stinking a car interior

Little buggers used to love to die inside the seat upholstery too. Never forget my 28 Chevy - had a nest of dead RATS behind the seat when I got it.

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snipped-for-privacy@snyder.on.ca wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

just think what the previous owners lungs were like....or their teeth. ECCCH!

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Jim Yanik

Actually, the entire body of a smoker shows the effects of the addiction. We can also include the entire life, habits, personality, and so on.

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Stormin Mormon

Pipe and Cigar - mostly pipe from what I could figure out. I think he was dead when I bought the car.

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clare

Did you ever see the Myth Busters show where they bought a Corvette and put a dead pig in it and let it rot? It was awful.

TDD

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The Daring Dufas

That's just evil, probably the juices soaked into the fiberglass. that stuff doesn't just wipe clean like steel.

nate

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Nate Nagel

aemeijers posted for all of us...

Did you have the AC on? It could be mold/fungus in it.

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Tekkie®

Mold and fungus don't smell like "something died".

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Doug Miller

Doug Miller posted for all of us...

Explain to me the smell of something dead. What does mold and fungus smell like? Explain in detail.

Explain to me the color red.

So if we are not there my guess is as good as yours.

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Tekkie®

snipped-for-privacy@milmac.com (Doug Miller) wrote in news:Pcezl.13119$ snipped-for-privacy@flpi150.ffdc.sbc.com:

A bit like trying to explain how sex feels, no?

An easy (very easy) test. Even easier now with summer coming: Next time you come across a dead raccoon, skunk (well, maybe not a skunk), woodchuck or other larger mammalian roadkill that's been lying there in the sun for more than a week, park your car, get out, and just, well, stand downwind and fill your nostrils with that delectable aroma for a while. Ever had a mouse die inside your walls after you laid out poison? Similar smell.

Now, after all that, try and tell anybody that the odor you just experienced is in any way comparable to fungus or mold.

For a "power level" experience of the same "dead body" smell, get a good whiff of aged dead deer at high-summer. A deer is about the weight of a man. That kind of meaty mass makes a majorly vomitous stink as it decomposes. What did Dresden smell like in late May, 1945?

Rotting log? Compost? Mold? Fungus? None of those offer the same olfactory impact as dead animal.

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Tegger

Easy to demonstrate: put a piece of raw meat in a closed container (so it won't dry out), and leave it at room temperature for a couple of weeks. Then give it a sniff.

Easy to demonstrate: turn over a rotting log.

Irrelevant.

No, not really. Dead animals, and molds/fungi, have distinctly different odors. The impossibility of *explaining* the difference in no way alters the

*fact* of the difference.
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Doug Miller

First thing to do is DRY the car's insides. You might, for example, turn the car heater all the way up and let is idle in the sun.

OR you can run an extension cord and operate an electric heater in the car (taking proper precautions against the heater setting the car on fire.

Once it's dry you can "detail" the car and vacuum it as well .

If something literally died, completely drying it out should stop the smell.

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John Gilmer

Dude, where are you reading this? On one of those Usenet-scraping websites or something? I posted the message you are replying to at least a year ago...

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aemeijers

an "ozonator" really helps too. Or a bag of charcoal left in the car out in the sun with the windows closed.

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clare

aemeijers wrote in news:r7ednbyiRpfw5aLQnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

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If you're going to top-post, please delete your sig's "-- " sequence.

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Tegger

Sorry about that- I just got off a session of e-mail answering, where top-post IS the norm, and my fingers forgot to switch back.

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aemeijers

aemeijers wrote in news:O6WdnfRkHa0lHKLQnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Yeah, email is top-post only. I get a lot of business email, and not one single person bottom-posts OR intersperses. I've often wondered why Microsoft email products make interspersing so damnably difficult.

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Tegger

you could have just said "I've often wondered why Microsoft products are so damnably difficult."

I love how every new version of Office seems to have a completely different menu/button structure for the various programs... same is true for AutoCAD which isn't even a Microsoft product, but at least the good old command line still works the same in AutoCAD (mostly... the text editing is still more cumbersome than I remember...)

nate

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Nate Nagel

Nate Nagel wrote in news:ihnvvj08q0 @news3.newsguy.com:

One of our suppliers' employees is getting an intermittent bounce when attempting to send to one of our employees. The bounce message doesn't give any information other than, basically "username does not exist". It does not say which server is reporting that error, which is what I want to know.

So, I investigate, and discover that supplier is using Outlook. Then I discover (online) that Outlook REMOVES headers from messages when it stores the messages! The guy I'm dealing with is clueless with computers, and his IT department is unresponsive. I have to go there tomorrow anyway, and the guy is willing to let me futz around on his computer until I find what I want.

Why does Outlook do this?

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Tegger

Probably for the same reason it defaults to top posting and HTML.

nate

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Nate Nagel

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