View Full Version : whats the wierdest thing youve found cleaning a car
boyle_46
15-10-11, 12:49 AM
I bought a dry stored nova from a old boy and got a cd multi changer full of 90 dance Cd's and a few bob under the rear seats , bought a corsa sport of a mates sister and found ann summers reciept and some cherry lube she must of been one right durty B1tch lol :):):):) whats the oddist thing youve found .
Bought a Nova, found minimal rust on it.
Ive been a valeter for 6 months now... found rotting food under seats, 16 condoms under a booster seat, a nice dog turd in a boot, and the worst of all i reckon was a dead rat trapped under a spare wheel... it STUNK!!! Mustve been a good hundred flies in the car and the owner didnt know why
JShannon
15-10-11, 02:03 AM
when lifting the carpet out from the nova i found an empty Spanish crisp packet. The date said they went out of date in Jan1992 lol I think i kept it, i will post pics if i find it lol
Joe
novarally
15-10-11, 07:40 AM
Porn video under the seat of a Nova I bought. Quite a good one too.
Gaz1300SR
15-10-11, 08:03 AM
The second Nova SR I bought about 10 years ago, when I went to look at it the owner told me there was no history with the car at all. So I bought it anyway as it was cheap back then, about 3 or 4 months after owning it I was wiring up a sub and amp to the boot, I lifted the rear seats, lifted the carpet under there and found the original service book all stamped up other than the most recent service.
I was pleased with that!
mk1nova_rich
15-10-11, 08:46 AM
A coin from 1969...hardly exciting!
A Navman with a busted screen. A pair of scissors in a Nova scuttle. A 17mm socket attached to a Civic engine lol
Southie
15-10-11, 09:21 AM
My Dads stash of porn mags when I was about 12 lol
Jon_nova1
15-10-11, 09:33 AM
aload of Japanese yen from when it was imported in 1998....and melted revels
steviegsi
15-10-11, 09:34 AM
A mans thong with a printed monkey on the front , which made monkey noises as I threw it in the bin....thankfully I have always worn latex gloves since I found a lot of syringes in a different car.
I think I must be the only one that cleans my cars before selling them on! Some dirty bast@rds around.
lol at southie
joff-turbo-nova
15-10-11, 09:51 AM
Mainly loose change, but I did find $15 USD under the rubber mat in the wifes meriva when I first got it ...
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15/joff-turbo-nova/PICT0208.jpg
Joff
paul james
15-10-11, 10:08 AM
Sounds like I've been lucky then, all my cars have been nice and clean when I've bought them. The most interesting thing I found was probably some paperwork in my Nova hiding under the carpet. Its the spec list for what to put on the car in the factory, all in Spanish naturally. I was impressed that it had survived all that time.
A cutout fold compartment in a sill of my last nova which looks like it was used to stash drugs/guns in there in the antibes spud has now.
A machete in another Nova.
A bullet
About a joints worth of resin.
In my old sr was the drivers manual-the old gadjee must have had a road rage incident with some one as he had ranted a scribble which read-"if i had been in my HGV i would have just carried on and wiped him out" LOL
Also a childrens gardening set in the boot of our old Astra SRi which my daughter was thrilled with-brand new trowels and forks etc.
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Nowt out of the ordinary for me. The most recenet find was when changing the seats in my 106. It paid me out to the tune of 92p from under the seat rails.
My mate found £20 and an ancient condom behind the steering wheel pad on a car he bought. lol
My mate found £20 and an ancient condom behind the steering wheel pad on a car he bought. lol
was the previous owner johnny cash????
was the previous owner johnny cash????
Could well be. I think it's quite the possibility that the money was intended for his burning ring.
joff-turbo-nova
15-10-11, 12:22 PM
Just remembered, when working on a Cav GSI I had a few years back whilst doing the Nova up I found a 13mm Snap On spanner inside the nearside chassis leg. I was trying to find a rattle from the front end ! Had to get it out with an extending magnet tool.
It now sits on my wall with the other spanners!
Oh and no more rattle either!
Joff
you just reminded my of the merc sprinter we have.. it had never been apart, but when we did the rocker gasket, i found a torx bit in there.....
There was quite a few tools in the battery tray in one of my novas, and i have also found 1 chopstick and a girls belt in one before lol
Ive found alsorts of wierd and wonderful things in peeps cars when valeting, from used prophylactics, to used undergarments, sat-navs, monies, gentlemens magazines, shotgun cartridges, needles, you name it ive pretty much found it in a car!
Some of the states of peoples cars is unreal, id hate to see their houses!!
My most recent nova I found half a spliff in the gearstick hole thing. Some resin in a bag under the horn push.
And a pair of tights and tampons under the passenger seat lol.
Dirty dodger!
Lol my old white SR had a split in the gear gaiter and i found about a quarter of resin down there in about 2003, the lad it came from before the guy i bought it from was a stoner, mustve been in there about two years as the lad i bought it from left it at his work for a year and a half and never got it on the road lol
Jeff16v
15-10-11, 04:16 PM
Found some herb in a mini, must have been well old, tasked like crap!
/\ it was probably parsley, spilt on a shopping expedition....
Jeff16v
15-10-11, 04:19 PM
Was a branch, got knows why Rastas smoke it!
you just reminded my of the merc sprinter we have.. it had never been apart, but when we did the rocker gasket, i found a torx bit in there.....
we have a rover 416 at work as a loan car, we bought it with a fubared headgasket (a surprise as that may be) I started stripping it, and when I took the cam cover off I found a 14mm snap-on spanner layed across the inlet cam caps lol
autoworksnovasport
15-10-11, 05:41 PM
pair of mole grips attached to track rod (bloke sold as spares or repairs because it was knocking lock to lock haha)
we have a rover 416 at work as a loan car, we bought it with a fubared headgasket (a surprise as that may be)
That would depend, the k series ones, not really. But if it had the honda B16 engine in then yes lol
Honda engined rovers FTW my 216 GTi was an epic car which withstood being driven very hard lol
Boss at work has one, took a load of the uneeded intake gubbins and the air filter out (It's fcuked anyway and due to go to the scrappies) and it jumped something silly like 15-20bhp lol
aye there good,mine flew.
On my old red Nova I found a rolled up glove behind the passenger side rear light cluster, looked like it had been used to prop the light unit up, there was something else there too but nothing interesting either.
£4.50, a wireless adapter, 20fags, and under the bm rear bench theres something squelchy...so i put the seat down and im pretending its not there :d
oh and my nova spare key in the spare wheel well with some string hanging out one of the bungs, im guessing incase they lost the key
General Baxter
16-10-11, 05:34 PM
bubba's virginity lol
I'd had a car a couple of weeks before the first need to brake heavily and an ipod nano slid out into the passenger footwell! Had some decent tunes on it too!
While working at the bodyshop i got to clean the cars... Alot of taxis...
2rings, a gold braclet, many used condoms, a dildo, many adult nappies(taxi drivers are dirty c**t) uneaten and mouldy food, bits of finger nail, porn, photos of their wifes/girlfriends
While cleaning cars on the said, mostly the same. Worse was blood on the drivers and rear seats from a crash... Made me feel sick.
Novasport
16-10-11, 07:09 PM
Sounds like I've been lucky then, all my cars have been nice and clean when I've bought them. The most interesting thing I found was probably some paperwork in my Nova hiding under the carpet. Its the spec list for what to put on the car in the factory, all in Spanish naturally. I was impressed that it had survived all that time.
Duick would more than likely be interested in that, PM me if you still have it.
paul james
16-10-11, 07:37 PM
Duick would more than likely be interested in that, PM me if you still have it.
I still have it. It's only a small piece of paper, thats quite worn as you'd expect after lying under Nova carpet for around 20 years. I'll give it a scan later when I have a chance, it will hopefully come out readable.
bubba's virginity lol
odd. im sure i left that in essex lol lol
odd. im sure i left that in essex lol lol
oh did you now :thumb: ;)
romford to be exact lmfao
paul james
18-10-11, 12:01 PM
Duick would more than likely be interested in that, PM me if you still have it.
Heres a scan of it: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.james21/novaspeclist.jpg
RossRog
18-10-11, 01:29 PM
when on the way home from buying a 106 i got a text off the lad said he had left his stash in the car an told me the 4 places it was hidden over the car.
always find money most i've had out of 1 car was about 8 quid
RossRog
18-10-11, 01:30 PM
(Double post)
Did you take him it back??
RossRog
18-10-11, 01:33 PM
nope i did offer as i had only gone about 10 miles. ended up giving it to a mate
i found a cordless telephone under the bonnet of a 60plate Jaguar XF last week haha
i found a cordless telephone under the bonnet of a 60plate Jaguar XF last week haha
lollol I can just imagine some coffin dodger looking all round the house for his phone and pressing the 'Find' button with a confused look appearing on his face when he cant hear it even after changing his hearing aid batteries.
lollol I can just imagine some coffin dodger looking all round the house for his phone and pressing the 'Find' button with a confused look appearing on his face when he cant hear it even after changing his hearing aid batteries.
Most likely a mechanic, our cordless phones have ended up on a few passenger seats doing rolling roads lol
we're pretty good at leaving inspection lights in interesting places at work, under cars usually. Terry went through a particularly good time when he lost one each day for a week, i found them all in the yard in eleventy million pieces lol
i Found 37p and LOTS of rust under the carpets in the swift :( dont think the 37p is going to cover the metal needed for welding lol
turbojolt
19-10-11, 09:46 PM
Dirt.
we're pretty good at leaving inspection lights in interesting places at work, under cars usually. Terry went through a particularly good time when he lost one each day for a week, i found them all in the yard in eleventy million pieces lol
We kill inspection lights, got a load of reasonably crappy plastic ones a while back and they're all in pieces now, one we ducktaped up tried to set light to itself lol
lol we normally use those ring ones at £40 a throw, Terry has to wrap his in yellow insulation tape so he can see them when he props it up in a spring or something lol it also helps me spot them when they've been run over in the yard lol my current ring one has lasted over a year, whilst it's temporary snap on replacement lasted only 2 months before it died. cheap ftw :) lol
best thing was a palm top comp in a salvage car we bought the straingest was a ladys toy when i was a car valeter the nastiest was a sanitry towel stuffed down the back of a seat
dirty girl lol
lol we normally use those ring ones at £40 a throw, Terry has to wrap his in yellow insulation tape so he can see them when he props it up in a spring or something lol it also helps me spot them when they've been run over in the yard lol my current ring one has lasted over a year, whilst it's temporary snap on replacement lasted only 2 months before it died. cheap ftw :) lol
Think ours are worth about £2.50 each lol
they wouldn't even get into the workshop before we mullered them lol
once found half an ounce of cocaine and a set of digital scales in a combo we bought with a cracked head lol
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