de-stinking a car interior

Mold and fungus don't smell like "something died".

Doug Miller posted for all of us...

Explain to me the smell of something dead. What does mold and fungus smell like? Explain in detail.

Explain to me the color red.

So if we are not there my guess is as good as yours.

aemeijers wrote: Re: de-stinking a car interior I'm sure this has come up on here before, but I can't remember what the best recommended product was. _________________________________________________________

The most promising method I read was one poster's successful use of the enzyme liquids sold by carpet cleaner renters.

Rodan.

I like idea of putting a dog in the car and watch where the dog snifs around.Dogs are experts.A cat might work ok too. cuhulin

snipped-for-privacy@milmac.com (Doug Miller) wrote in news:Pcezl.13119$ snipped-for-privacy@flpi150.ffdc.sbc.com:

A bit like trying to explain how sex feels, no?

An easy (very easy) test. Even easier now with summer coming: Next time you come across a dead raccoon, skunk (well, maybe not a skunk), woodchuck or other larger mammalian roadkill that's been lying there in the sun for more than a week, park your car, get out, and just, well, stand downwind and fill your nostrils with that delectable aroma for a while. Ever had a mouse die inside your walls after you laid out poison? Similar smell.

Now, after all that, try and tell anybody that the odor you just experienced is in any way comparable to fungus or mold.

For a "power level" experience of the same "dead body" smell, get a good whiff of aged dead deer at high-summer. A deer is about the weight of a man. That kind of meaty mass makes a majorly vomitous stink as it decomposes. What did Dresden smell like in late May, 1945?

Rotting log? Compost? Mold? Fungus? None of those offer the same olfactory impact as dead animal.

Easy to demonstrate: put a piece of raw meat in a closed container (so it won't dry out), and leave it at room temperature for a couple of weeks. Then give it a sniff.

Easy to demonstrate: turn over a rotting log.

Irrelevant.

No, not really. Dead animals, and molds/fungi, have distinctly different odors. The impossibility of *explaining* the difference in no way alters the

First thing to do is DRY the car's insides. You might, for example, turn the car heater all the way up and let is idle in the sun.

OR you can run an extension cord and operate an electric heater in the car (taking proper precautions against the heater setting the car on fire.

Once it's dry you can "detail" the car and vacuum it as well .

If something literally died, completely drying it out should stop the smell.

Dude, where are you reading this? On one of those Usenet-scraping websites or something? I posted the message you are replying to at least a year ago...

an "ozonator" really helps too. Or a bag of charcoal left in the car out in the sun with the windows closed.

aemeijers wrote in news:r7ednbyiRpfw5aLQnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

If you're going to top-post, please delete your sig's "-- " sequence.

Sorry about that- I just got off a session of e-mail answering, where top-post IS the norm, and my fingers forgot to switch back.

aemeijers wrote in news:O6WdnfRkHa0lHKLQnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Yeah, email is top-post only. I get a lot of business email, and not one single person bottom-posts OR intersperses. I've often wondered why Microsoft email products make interspersing so damnably difficult.

you could have just said "I've often wondered why Microsoft products are so damnably difficult."

I love how every new version of Office seems to have a completely different menu/button structure for the various programs... same is true for AutoCAD which isn't even a Microsoft product, but at least the good old command line still works the same in AutoCAD (mostly... the text editing is still more cumbersome than I remember...)

nate

Nate Nagel wrote in news:ihnvvj08q0 @news3.newsguy.com:

One of our suppliers' employees is getting an intermittent bounce when attempting to send to one of our employees. The bounce message doesn't give any information other than, basically "username does not exist". It does not say which server is reporting that error, which is what I want to know.

So, I investigate, and discover that supplier is using Outlook. Then I discover (online) that Outlook REMOVES headers from messages when it stores the messages! The guy I'm dealing with is clueless with computers, and his IT department is unresponsive. I have to go there tomorrow anyway, and the guy is willing to let me futz around on his computer until I find what I want.

Why does Outlook do this?

Probably for the same reason it defaults to top posting and HTML.

nate

It's been awhile- IIRC, time, Febreeze, some slow-evaporating waxy stuff in a tub that reminded me of 1960s mens room air freshener, and a lot of parking in asphalt-ocean parking lots with the windows open in the sunny summertime. For awhile, if the weather was damp, and you let it sit a day, you could catch a whiff as you first got in, but even that finally went away.

So, how'd you get rid of the smell?

Because they feel the user shouldn't be bothered by niggling little details. The headers are unsightly, and PC users should not be exposed to them. The average PC user might be panicked by the sight of a mail header. We'd have stampedes in every office in America.

Cindy Hamilton

How do you plan on "finding out what you want" if the data is not stored like you claim it isn't?