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Craziest thing you have found in a detail - 09-09-2009, 12:07 AM

What is the craziest, most off the wall, gross, interesting thing that you have found while detailing a vehicle?
   
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Re: Craziest thing you have found in a detail - 09-09-2009, 12:33 AM

detailed a car for a nurse ...found a vial of morphine in the door panel pocket ..i forgot to mention that when she picked up her car


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Re: Craziest thing you have found in a detail - 09-09-2009, 06:58 AM

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detailed a car for a nurse ...found a vial of morphine in the door panel pocket ..i forgot to mention that when she picked up her car
Maybe that was the tip?
   
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Re: Craziest thing you have found in a detail - 09-09-2009, 07:25 AM

I have found some thing like $1300 under a seat, said she didn't know it was there. A few years ago at a detail shop I was working at I found a lady's "speacial toy"
   
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Re: Craziest thing you have found in a detail - 09-09-2009, 09:05 AM

Let's see: petrified McDonald's happy meals, tampons (new - thank God), condoms in the pack, half a joint, and a thong.
   
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Re: Craziest thing you have found in a detail - 09-09-2009, 09:13 AM

lots of french fries stuck to the ceiling in a tahoe ..when someone calls about one i used to ask what color ....now i ask how many kids!!!!!!! for real


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Re: Craziest thing you have found in a detail - 09-09-2009, 10:26 AM

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lots of french fries stuck to the ceiling in a tahoe ..when someone calls about one i used to ask what color ....now i ask how many kids!!!!!!! for real
That is great.


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Re: Craziest thing you have found in a detail - 09-09-2009, 10:27 AM

I used to work for my friend that owns an Avis Rent a car franchise, we had to repo a rental one time that someone wasnt paying for. When we took it back to the shop and opened the trunk there was a grocery bag filled with packages of ground beef. It appeared to be in there for over a week in the dead of summer. There was pepsi spilled all over the dash and ants crawling all through the speedometer and instrument cluster! The smell was overwhelming.
   
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Re: Craziest thing you have found in a detail - 09-09-2009, 10:35 AM

In an RV party bus: Tampons (used), condoms (used), thongs, mold filled refridgerator

Regular vehicles: Crappy diapers, molded sandwich in a bag (think it was a sandwich), vibrator, drugs, vomit, and dog crap..... yes, dog crap.


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Re: Craziest thing you have found in a detail - 09-09-2009, 11:03 AM

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In an RV party bus: Tampons (used), condoms (used), thongs, mold filled refridgerator

Regular vehicles: Crappy diapers, molded sandwich in a bag (think it was a sandwich), vibrator, drugs, vomit, and dog crap..... yes, dog crap.
The smell alone must have knocked you out.


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Re: Craziest thing you have found in a detail - 09-09-2009, 11:36 AM

After reading these posts I'm glad that I only do my own vehicles.
   
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Re: Craziest thing you have found in a detail - 09-09-2009, 11:37 AM

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In an RV party bus: Tampons (used), condoms (used), thongs, mold filled refridgerator

Regular vehicles: Crappy diapers, molded sandwich in a bag (think it was a sandwich), vibrator, drugs, vomit, and dog crap..... yes, dog crap.
If this was a contest Chris, you would be winner hands down.

I guess I'm lucky. I did run across a used condom once. I found a hand gun in a car bought from auction once. That's all I can think of after almost 20 years of detailing cars.

I have an account that the cars I clean are havens for spiders. I have to be careful because Black Widows keep nesting in the trunk seals.


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Re: Craziest thing you have found in a detail - 09-10-2009, 09:15 AM

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The smell alone must have knocked you out.
Yea, I had some nice dry heaves. I think the one that took the cake was an expedition that had a 50lb. bag of catfish food break open in the rear cargo area. It shouldn't have been bad, but a gallon jug of water also broke open and made slush out of it. From what I understand, catfish food is made from fish as well? Or an ingredient in it? Correct me if I'm wrong. But the smell at 7AM made me lose my breakfast, over and over... lol That was a looooong day

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If this was a contest Chris, you would be winner hands down.

I guess I'm lucky. I did run across a used condom once. I found a hand gun in a car bought from auction once. That's all I can think of after almost 20 years of detailing cars.

I have an account that the cars I clean are havens for spiders. I have to be careful because Black Widows keep nesting in the trunk seals.
You mean this wasn't a contest????!!!!???
Never came across spiders, just red ants.
The dealership I have a contract with, told me to look under the cars first when I started. I was like . Come to find out, the lot in the back where they store some cars, is by a huge field. I guess rattle snakes like to come out and lay beneath the cars to get out of the sun. Never seen one yet, not sure I care to either.....


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Re: Craziest thing you have found in a detail - 09-10-2009, 11:06 AM

Several nasty dipers and an unknown needle was found once. It really doesn't get more nasty than that in my opinion.


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Re: Craziest thing you have found in a detail - 09-10-2009, 01:40 PM

No entry from me. Luckily I have a more mature, civilized clientele.
   
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