When I worked for the truck rental agency, some construction guys ran over a racoon on the way into a site, did not think anything more about it. Truck then sat for five days in 95 deg temps.
When they went to get into it again, let's just say it had to be towed in. Turned out the front half of Rocky (complete head was looking back at us when we pulled the wheel off) had lodged in the front area of the inner wheel well and had sort of rotted and baked. Truck stayed out of service for four days while we sprayed everything we could think of in there, a few times a day. Finally it was *just* fit to rent out, but on damp days it still had a stench like skunk until we got rid of it. Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> They removed all non-metalic objects from inside, washed it down with >> organic solvents. Hopeless. >> Finally sold car to fellow after video-taping various folks gasping >> at stench. Fellow wanted it for the drive train, commented on bad >> smell inside tho. >> >> End result was if something dead is left inside for a few weeks, then >> forget about salvaging it. > > A neighbor down the street went on travel for a couple of weeks and left > his car at the local (dinky) airport with the window slightly down. > Someone put a dead (squirrel or racoon) in it. He gave the car away.
