Arrived at work this morning with tales of how the catalytic convertor on his Chrysler 300C had gone pop on the way to work.

 

"it's been rattling on rough roads for a while, and this morning on the way up the hill it there was a large pop and an awful smell so i guess it's gone."

"sounds likely, ceramic could have broken up hence the rattle and gone completely now the smell. expect a big bill"

later on in the morning

 

"quiet morning so plenty of research. found one on amazon for £150"

"a lot less than the £500 i was quoted for mine - not so bad then"

"yeah i'll get the garage to look at it on the way home for a professional opinion"

 

 

got a phone call at 5 ish

"this should make your day"

"ok"

"the garage have checked the exhaust and found no issues. cat seems all intact so no real idea what the problem is"

"right..."

"until a guy reached for a torch and got inthe back of the car"

"um..."

"he reached under the drivers seat and retrieved a pack of chicken breasts that, from the look - and smell - of them, have been under there for approx 10 days and the pop noise was the cellophane literally exploding off the container due to the rancid gas underneath"

all i can do at this point is laugh down the phone

"he said that the smell was even worse this afternoon as i'd put the blowers on feet and sent the rancid chicken smell all around the cabin!"

 

so there you go

if your catalytic convertor is knackered and smelling make sure its not actually rotting chicken!!!!

Haha that's quality. But I imagine it's gonna take a while to lose the stink!

:D

:rofl:

Man that brings back memories of someone doing exactly the same thing in a car at work a couple of months ago in the 40Deg C heat it sat for a good few days after popping before found.......... The smell was emotional! The 'evidence' was brought into the office and took hours to get the stench out of the building too. 

 

Stink never left car (now returned to lease company) 

Pmsl ewwwww

Worst ever was as i emptied a car to get ready for going back to the dealers at the end of a motability lease.

 

I could not figure what the big furry ball was in the corner of the boot. looked like a wasp nest or something.

I looked and looked then got a screw driver to move it and it burst, and i spewed. The worst smell ever in my life hit me.

 

It was a water melon that had been in there in a shopping bag for many months,

(i now know the Sainsbury bags fall apart after time, so it will have been in a bag at one point.)

 

Maybe some know what a rotten watermelon is like, i will never ever forget it.

I had to get a mask and start to move stuff out the boot,

but kept being sick, the liquid was rank.

I pulled the mat and everything on it out and started to power wash it, and it just got worse.

Tiny bits were stinking.

Rear seats ruined. and i got a Neutraliser and started spraying the seat backs and trim,

but the car had to go back to the dealer the next day.

So i poured Febreze everyplace and left the windows open over night, it was torture driving it to the dealers,

& as soon as the guy came out to check the car, he said it was going straight to the auction anyway.

& i was liable to be surcharged, but he was not inspecting it. Just noting a strong smell.

 

I kept checking and it never changed hands for months. and it was weeks after that before it was road taxed again.

It must have needed stripping & new trim and seats.

 

george

Buy him some Febreeze for actually owning up and telling you the truth     

I guy I used to know had a pint of milk leak all over the rear seats of his escort. He ended throwing the back seat base away as he couldn't get rid of the smell.

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When my Dad had a Large milk bottle split on the way back from Asda, 1990's and start of Big Bottles i seem to remember,

he contacted them & they sent him to get a valet locally and invoice them.

But Mushroom type mould started to grow,

So they said go get quotes at the Dealers & they were going to pay to replace carpets, underlay etc, but invoice the Milk supplier/Dairy.

 

Well the milk supplier contacted my Dad, supplied a Courtesy car.

and they sent around a valater to collect the car and treat with a Neutraliser.  Job done, the story was that the bottling plant had a fault and there were many claims coming in

& they were willing to do what they had to to reduce hassle to customers and Asda just running up the costs..

 

george

I guy I used to know had a pint of milk leak all over the rear seats of his escort. He ended throwing the back seat base away as he couldn't get rid of the smell.

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Similar happened to one of my Managers a few years ago, in an almost new Vectra.

His toddler threw up a complete yoghurt (believed to be blackcurrant) whilst strapped in the back, and by the time they realised it had permeated the seat base and the carpet. The carpet came up OK, but no amount of hoovering, scrubbing, Febreeze etc. would remove it from the seat base. The colour went but the aroma lingered.

 

It was a Coy. car, but they refused to pay for replacements, maintaining that it was his fault, not covered by Insurance (and remember, this was an Insurance Coys. fleet car) . In the end he coughed up himself for the replacement base as he couldn't face nearly 3 more years driving around trapped inside it.

Reminds me of when I worked for an engineering company in Huddersfield. The lads didn't like the foreman one bit - he was a bit of a know it all to be fair.  His pride and joy was a Vauxhall Carlton at the time.  Someone got hold of his keys one day without him knowing and hid fish heads under the front seats.  They added prawns in all the hard to reach places and returned the keys to their original place.

It took a few days for the effect to take hold, but he ended up getting rid of the car after a while.  He never found the cause of the smell and because people didn't like him, he wasn't told either. 

I did work for a Mazda garage back in the early 00's. When I was in one day they told me about an unhappy customer. They'd done the PDI on a new MX5. Sent the customer off.

 

She came back complaining of a horrible stink coming through the vents. Turns out there was a dead rat on the exhaust manifold. When she was driving it heated and the smell of cooking rotting rat came into the car.

They had to give her a new motor in the end they couldn't get the smell out of it.

That's worse than my fish head & prawn story!

Hahaha, nice.

Takes me back to the winters day, cold with fog and showers, when my nephew was sick on the back seat and carpet of my Octavia. My son was sitting on the other side watching toy story on his telly only looked over to see what the fuss was then went back to watching his film lol.

As I couldn't stop the car fast enough to get my nephew out of the car first it resulting in a large pool sitting on the seat base. Luckily I had a towel to soak up the worst. Then spent the rest of the night trying my best to clean it in the dark, cold and rain. Of course I couldn't leave of overnight to air either due to the weather. The 100 + mile journey home was great...not.

Just get some pet mess cleaner which contains enzymes in it. In our old house we discovered mice in airing cupboard and spare room by which time they'd urinated over everything. It stunk. This stuff ate the smell completely.

Friend tried it in his car after his little one was sick on holiday a couple of weeks back and was complaining it still stunk. He sprayed it and next morning the smell had gone

You can also get them 'smoke' treated for extreme treatments.

^ +1

 

Stuff specifically for cat pee is the best.

 

Cat pee is basically Satan's aftershave. If that stuff can deal with it then it can seal with anything.

Reminds me of this!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCKFr5IsxdQ

Milk, vomit and worse.  Dire.  Good that there are a range of stuff to try now.

 

Agree about the watermelon.  Once eat some bad stuff while judgement impaired.  Still feel pukey if I catch a wiff of watermelon 40+ years later.