people with nasty cars and the installers who have to work in them

[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

for all you installers. lets hear thoes horror stories of working in thoes cars that are so messy its makes you sick.
my last nasty car, I stepped on a used condom in back installing an amp //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

ewwww

the grossest thing i ever found was an old, rusty razor blade under the rear seat of my Impala

 

[bri487 5,000+ posts]

my dealer around here just had a truck, a stock version of mine, 05 silverado LT ext cab z71 though, and it belonged to a farmer. there was more dirt inside the truck than outside. lift up the door sill panels and there was mud caked in it. there was dirt behind the dash, covering the gauges. took a compressor to the interior. all the new gear he was putting in it was like throwing it in a garbage can. production date of the truck was less than 8 months ago too. the thing barley ran because the engine compartment was so dirty. bad stuff.

 

[JohnnyChuttz 10+ year member]

Not a bad story but a good one. I pulled the seats to get under the carpet of my 96 Pontiac GTP ( this was like 8 yrs ago). Found an original 1958 Mickey Mantel baseball card in a hard case. It wasnt his rookie card, it was only worth $500 in a Beckett at the time. No card shop would buy it though. Stll have it, best thing I ever found installing any car audio gear.

 

[MikeofTulsa Moderator]

interesting

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

my dealer around here just had a truck, a stock version of mine, 05 silverado LT ext cab z71 though, and it belonged to a farmer. there was more dirt inside the truck than outside. lift up the door sill panels and there was mud caked in it. there was dirt behind the dash, covering the gauges. took a compressor to the interior. all the new gear he was putting in it was like throwing it in a garbage can. production date of the truck was less than 8 months ago too. the thing barley ran because the engine compartment was so dirty. bad stuff.

God forbid some farmer use his truck for farming. I mean not everyone can be like you and just lift a nice truck and use it just for driving around. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[Ignatowski 5,000+ posts]

I found the village people in the back of my bud's station wagon.

and now its in your CD player //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[AVSTANG02]

Not a bad story but a good one. I pulled the seats to get under the carpet of my 96 Pontiac GTP ( this was like 8 yrs ago). Found an original 1958 Mickey Mantel baseball card in a hard case. It wasnt his rookie card, it was only worth $500 in a Beckett at the time. No card shop would buy it though. Stll have it, best thing I ever found installing any car audio gear.

I dont understand why you think just cause you find something under a seat you can keep it? You kno that's called stealing right?

Especially when you had a good idea that it was worth money...

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

ava. he said "pulled the seats to get under the carpet of MY 96 pontiac GTP like 8 years ago"

so whoever sold him the car, included that card. not like he could go back in time and find the guy who sold it to him to return his baseball card //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

 

[Darth Audio 10+ year member]

When I was installing I worked on a lot of nasty cars but nothing beats the Plymouth Sundance I worked on. The woman who drove the car was so fat that the **** seat frame was bent! People always think I'm making that up and I guess if I hadn't seen it I wouldn't have believed myself. Oh yea and the seat was nice and sweaty when she dropped it off! Easily the worst car I worked on.

 

[bri487 5,000+ posts]

God forbid some farmer use his truck for farming. I mean not everyone can be like you and just lift a nice truck and use it just for driving around. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

so quick to jump to conclusions. you really are a bastard.

 

[netherland24 5,000+ posts]

yay for this thread...

alright i worked on a eclipse 03 new girl style body. this black dude owned it and had it all riced out like fast and furious stickers and nottin done on the motor, well i had to put front speakers and a sub amp. i slide the seat forward and found *****'s, porn dvd's and a magazine. i was like **** it... i got a plastic bag and just covered that ****. then i opened the trunk.... and to see a rat in the trunk dead smelled like **** one of the guys in the bay threw up. i was like **** it so i told my SI mananger and he said call him up too pick it up too was so i roled hte ***** back out the bay, and when i parked it his visor on the passenger fliped down (loose?) and all this weed fell out.... fun car to work on 45minutes of looking at this filth. we left all his porn on his dash outside when he picked it up.... havent seen him since

 

[Ricky616 10+ year member]

worked in a mini van puttin in a dvd player and headrest tvs. and the kids used the backseat cup holder as a ceral bowl. then didnt clean it up after months and months. ya nice smell there
another time an old man came in and he wanted new speakers. his were blown no big deal. but one problem the guy was crazy and kept jars of urine in the trunk and he pissed all over his front and back seats. well thats when i decided thats the rookies frist job besides sweeping the shop

ewwww that is nasty as **** //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/hilarious.gif.02a037aad04aa96f19982b298a3d70a8.gif that made me laugh

 

[rocky 59 5,000+ posts]

your manager set you up or something. no guy would leave his weed in the car lawl

 

[bigwheel15 10+ year member]

Not a bad story but a good one. I pulled the seats to get under the carpet of my 96 Pontiac GTP ( this was like 8 yrs ago). Found an original 1958 Mickey Mantel baseball card in a hard case. It wasnt his rookie card, it was only worth $500 in a Beckett at the time. No card shop would buy it though. Stll have it, best thing I ever found installing any car audio gear.

I wish I found cool stuff like that. All I found was under my carpet, a green keychain cowboy boot and a playing card.

 

[Ricky616 10+ year member]

lolz i always keep the car clean it gets cleaned like every week i just cleaned it today lolz i have never had left skitttles or m&m's cuz that **** is gross and im a clean person not a pig //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif i have pics too prove it lolz

 

[Untouchable11 10+ year member]

Eh, the nastiest thing I've found really wasn't that nasty, but it definately wasn't somthing I wanted in my car...

I just bought a new (to me) GTP, and took out the seats, console, carpet, etc... and found a bag of weed...

Around here, if you are under 21, and get pulled over, they pretty much search your car, for the hell of it...

Also, the twat that owned it before me obviously couldn't keep liquid in cups, beause under my console there was a ton of sticky ****, and what appeared to be coffee stains.

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

my last nasty car, I stepped on a used condom in back installing an amp //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

I wish I found cool stuff like that. All I found was under my carpet, a green keychain cowboy boot and a playing card.

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you are a sick bastard

 

[phantom240 5,000+ posts]

Req, dude... spelling FTW

Mold:fyi:

 

[BigOso 10+ year member]

When I was installing I worked on a lot of nasty cars but nothing beats the Plymouth Sundance I worked on. The woman who drove the car was so fat that the **** seat frame was bent! People always think I'm making that up and I guess if I hadn't seen it I wouldn't have believed myself. Oh yea and the seat was nice and sweaty when she dropped it off! Easily the worst car I worked on.

Let me guess your coworkers found you sniffing the seat 15 min later.

 

[Moe Lester 10+ year member]

The dirtiest car so far has been this one guy's Scion. his floor was wet and smelled terrible. he had a bottle of old ass pepto bismol that was all crusty on the inside, there wasnt even any liquid. it was like a thick paste.

In a 98 supra we found a condom with an expiration date of 02 on it.

there havent been any really trashy vehicles come through the shop though