Clean up Horror Storries

The Goose

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Okay some of you guys seen my wife’s little car survived that 65mph rear smashing. Well car is out of the shop and off to our daughter at Arizona State.

The boss got a new (to us) one and it was slathered in my arch enemy armorall. Interior was like a flipping slip n slide. Anyways got it cleaned out with hot water no soap and it’s now 80% under control. This got me thinking of the good old days.

Here’s my question any of you guys have some good clean up horror stories/ pics you want to share. Let’s see what you found in that trunk...

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Look at this chicken soup

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Found a gay adult magazine in one of my purchases a long time ago..

Sticky pages...
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I am a service advisor at a busy 16 bay shop.
I see horror stories every day,LOL!!
Trying to find a wheel lock key I end up going through **** nobody should handle.
Diabetic needles,snotty tissues,used femenine products,fast food bags rotting,coffee cups gone moldy, Clean and dirty laundry,sweaty sports gear ,sex toys..

I have one car we nick named "Hydroponic Hyundai 'cause it stinks sooo bad of weed and the resin built up on the windows and interior in general so much you need to wear a gas mask and haz-mat suit to drive it into the shop.
We do get the ocassional "rolling ashtray" butts overflowing in the ashtray with a coffee up sitting in the cupholder with butts swimming in a bio-hazard mix of water and whatever else is in there. You know this type of car..driver smokes in it with windows UP and A/C on recirculate. Barf.

Guy's cars are usually clean,some messy but not dirty.

Ladies? They are the worst offenders.
Especially when there is the aftermath from small kids in the vehicle contributing to the growth of foreign micro-organisms that the mother does not take time to clean up.
Not the kids fault that there is a stash of dried stale milk and cereal culture growing under the booster seat making the mini-van into a mobile petrie dish.
Mellinnial women use their cars as rolling dressing rooms.
Let's not forget the wet dog smell and the fur penetrates the cloth interior like quills of a porcupine and you can run the vacuum nozzle over it a thousand times and still refuses to let go of the upholstery.
I do get one out of five lady-owned cars that is clean where they take pride in ownership of her vehicle.
Need I go on??
 
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Worst car I can remember is a little Datsun (or something similar) station wagon came in on a hot humid summer day. The owner looked like a homeless filthy bum and stunk. He needed us to look at an electrical problem but the second you opened the door it floored you with the worst smell you can imagine. The car had garbage everywhere inside but we think the culprit was from the fishing gear and probably rotten bait that was in the back. that’s one job we were glad to turn away.
Having said that nothing is worse than a car that reeks with cheap perfume mixed with cigarette smoke.
 
Happened to look inside a friend's Jeep just the other day. Fast food bags and wrappers piled up in the front seat area about console high. Nice Jeep too.

I cleaned out my mother in law's Honda CRV before we sold it. It looked like a powdered donut had exploded in it. Had to do a lot of cleaning of the headliner.

After we fired a salesman, I "inherited" his company car. I was so pissed at the condition off the car that I wanted to hire him back just so we could fire him again. It was so bad that my wife had a asthma attack when we picked it up and she rode back in it. It looked like his dog must have lived in the back seat. It stunk of cigarette smoke and had food spilled everywhere. We sent it out to be cleaned and they had to leave an ozone machine in it overnight to get the stink out. I had it for about 3 years, and for at least a year after, including a couple more cleanings by me, it would still stink on hot, damp days. That really got me... We paid this guy well, gave him a nice car that he could use personally and he treated it like that. Crappy salesman too.
 
this is not really a horror story but getting back to armorall. I used to snowmobile with a dumbass. he used armorall on the seat of his sled. that was one of the most entertaining trips I can remember.
 
this is not really a horror story but getting back to armorall. I used to snowmobile with a dumbass. he used armorall on the seat of his sled. that was one of the most entertaining trips I can remember.
That had to have been fun for you....... :D
 
I opened the trunk on a wrecking yard car one time and a very irritable mother racoon and her babies came running at me.

Dave
 
At the gas station I worked at in the early 80's, we had a trapper who would bring his Ford van in for service. In the summer it wasn't bad because it was " off season" except for the occasional mild stink. But in the winter you couldn't move fast enough to get the oil change or whatever done before it started to thaw out. The stench was unbelievable!!! The shop and office would reek for hours!!
 
this is not really a horror story but getting back to armorall. I used to snowmobile with a dumbass. he used armorall on the seat of his sled. that was one of the most entertaining trips I can remember.

My father in law bought my mother in law a 77 Cordoba once, beautiful car, 360, leather, etc.

Woman who previously owned it was a heavy drinker and masked that odour with purfume (by the 55 gallon drum).

My mother in law and a friend spent an afternoon trying to clean it up and get rid of the smells, the got the idea to use armour all....

First corner she took, her friend nearly ended up in her lap.....


As a mechanic I've spent a lot of time disassembling customers interiors and searching for wheel locks.

I've seen it all, and I've been in some cars that I wanted to burn my clothes afterwards.

Nick

In my Fury's I've found some neat stuff, but nothing to write home about....
 
this fellow was under the rear seat when I removed it three days ago. Everything is cleaned up and starting to smell a little better now.

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People are like animals, for most that live their lives in a filthy state such as described above, the line between human and animal is very faint.

I would mostly agree that females are more messy than males. I have a female housemate. She does not clean. Never makes her bed, never cleans her toilet or her floors in her room. Even the light switches are covered in schmutz. She's a professional person, young (gen x), generally responsible, but unaccountable, aloof, and oblivious to the world around her. I doubt if she regularly washes her hands.

For example...on operating the refrigerator door:

Me: grab the plastic handle only, use clean hands. Close door when done.
Her: touch the handles, stainless steel, leave smudges all over the sides of the door. Forget to close the door.

Now I'm pissed off! :BangHead:
 
For example...on operating the refrigerator door:

Me: grab the plastic handle only, use clean hands. Close door when done.
Her: touch the handles, stainless steel, leave smudges all over the sides of the door. Forget to close the door.

Now I'm pissed off! :BangHead:
My refrigerator is ancient brown from the 70's. Shows smudges like you wouldn't believe. Specifically when somebody grabs the side of the door to close it.
And don't forget those animals that don't close kitchen cabinets... Unbelievable.
 
I found this book behind the cardboard panels in the trunk of a 71 Imperial I bought. VERY graphic pictures inside. Previous owner must've been hiding it from his wife.
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I have been working at a impound lot for the last 20 years and I could tell a few stories too about the stuff we have found in cars, but the funniest has to be the 8 inch purple vibrator that had a brown tin to it.
 
After I got my 1968 Plymouth Fury III 4dr (salesman car) home in late 1973 and got about cleaning the interior, the ashtray was full to the brim with packed fine cigar ash with a couple of 'stubbies' in there, the dash plastic had a crust of nicotine coating radiating from the ashtray center point and of course the steering wheel had never been wiped clean ever.
Then it was time to clean out the floors and seats, I filled two large brown paper grocery store shopping bags (remember those?) with just matchbooks (remember those?) from the floors, and between the seats. LOL I didn't find anything hazardous other than the nicotine as I didn't smoke then so that had to go. The dash got disassembled and cleaned up very well with just soap & water, popped the speedometer plastic and some soap & water and light paint brushing cleaned that up, even did the mirror glaze to it. All looked like new when it was put back together. The steering wheel needed a scrub pad and 2/3x with Fantastic cleaner to get down to the plastic, plus Fantastic all the other interior plastic surfaces. Steamed cleaned the engine bay and underside, buffed & waxed and the car was good to go 4,000 miles on my very first paid vacation trip. Looked pretty good when done, all trim was still intact and with only 1 small dent in the lower RR door and qtr was very presentable and someone with a 1969 440 6bbl 4spd GTX with a stove'd in quarter panel was ready to trade straight up for my new $100 DD. All he cared about was "Does it have good heat?".
I still had my 2nd 440 6bbl PK21 (beatup) and thought what do I need a 2nd smashed up gas guzzler for and declined and went on my vacation. Original thoughts were to swap the Fury III's stub & nose into my bent & cracked stubbed PK21 but I went out and bought a new motorcycle in the spring of 1974 and that preoccupied my time. Then someone offered me stupid money for the 6bbl PK21 and it was gone.
 
The guy I bought my 300 Hurst from loved Armorall. I think he even cleaned the lug nutz with it. Cursed that dip **** for at least half of the 16 yearz I owned it. And driving with the center arm rest down in place had become a habit out of safety. Loved that Plymouth tho' lol. Jer
 
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