Have you ever had a car in which something died?

[Squatch]

My Civic has been taking on the stench of some dead critter...probably a mouse that crawled up inside of it someplace and croaked. For the life of me, i can't find the source and it's becoming fairly unbearable. Nothing like driving home in a snowstorm with the windows wide open. :(

[Angela Shelley]

1. You´ll be lucky if it´s only a mouse,

because if it´s a bigger critter, it will take forever to decompose.

Have your neighbor´s cat help you out on this one.

:-)

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Icky. I hope you can find it whatever it was

[Shine]

3. nothing like that, mostly just the insect variety: bees, flies, etc..

and we were the cause of their death. :D

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Oh, man, when I was driving for the Mafia. That brings back memories!

:silly:

[triguy46]

5. Had a mouse build a nest and die in my 2006 Civic....

If you remove the glove box you will find a door that holds an air filter for the air system. Thats where it was. Check the owners manual if you need help finding that filter.

[LeftyFingerPop]

6. Do you mean something other than a yak? n/t

[Xipe Totec]

7. Usually the fish is dead before they stick it under the seat n/t

[MissMillie]

8. only the engine

twice

I'll never buy another American made economy car again.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Among the things that have died in my various cars:

Water pump
Two alternators
Head gasket
Starter solenoid
Timing chain
Heater core

But no carbon-based life forms. The above were inconvenient but not malodorous.

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Not died

but decomposed.

When I was 18, I found a cat skull, which I thought would look really cool in the back window of my '66 Chevy. (I planned to wire a red light inside it so the eyes would glow at night.)

It didn't occur to me that it might've been kinda fresh when I found it, or that in any case I should probably have soaked it in bleach or something.

x(

[leftofthedial]

11. meow

meow, meow.

meow, meow, meow, meow . . . meow . . . . . . . . meow . . . . . me

[Spacemom]

12. the previous previous owner

died in my husbands pick up. Had a heart attack and his wife found him in the driveway the next morning.


:shrug: Kinda creeps me out, but doesn't bother my husband.

[Maine-ah]

13. nope, but

when my hubbie was in high school, one of his friends found a dead squirrel and put it in another friend's car. That squirrel traveled back and forth for a little while......

[ashling]

14. Oh yeah!

up inside the air conditioner ... wonderful smell