Strangest Things You've Found in Your "New" Car
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So what was the strangest thing you've found in a car you'd not long bought? Its most likely to apply to a second-hand car you've bought, but it would be interesting to hear of a brand-new car with something odd in it.
For me I have two strange findings:
(1) I was giving a (new to me) Mk3 Golf GTi a mini-service and I opened the airbox to find the pre-filter section was chock full of nuts similar to peanuts. I'm not sure how they got there as they seemed too heavy to be sucked in and the convoluted piping leading to the box made that possibility even more unlikely.
(2) I was cleaning out my Lexus IS200 and in the spare wheel well there were lots of cut-out pictures of celebrities taken out of newspapers mainly, as well as a couple of Stanley knife blades that had slightly rusted to the metal. The pictures were mainly headshots, either little square pictures from the tops of articles, or cut out of a full-body shot. All female too.
So, what does the PH community have to add then? There must be many more weird and wonderful things found!
For me I have two strange findings:
(1) I was giving a (new to me) Mk3 Golf GTi a mini-service and I opened the airbox to find the pre-filter section was chock full of nuts similar to peanuts. I'm not sure how they got there as they seemed too heavy to be sucked in and the convoluted piping leading to the box made that possibility even more unlikely.
(2) I was cleaning out my Lexus IS200 and in the spare wheel well there were lots of cut-out pictures of celebrities taken out of newspapers mainly, as well as a couple of Stanley knife blades that had slightly rusted to the metal. The pictures were mainly headshots, either little square pictures from the tops of articles, or cut out of a full-body shot. All female too.
So, what does the PH community have to add then? There must be many more weird and wonderful things found!
2 Lotus pens in a brand new Vx220. Obviously a bit clumsy on the line.
Then a few years later a load of glass under the seats after a service. Concerns were raised when they rung me up and asked if I could get them a spare set of keys as valet had locked the keys in it. Rung me a bit later to say not to bother, they'd managed to get in.
Lotus and Vauxhall dealers. A brilliant combination.
Then a few years later a load of glass under the seats after a service. Concerns were raised when they rung me up and asked if I could get them a spare set of keys as valet had locked the keys in it. Rung me a bit later to say not to bother, they'd managed to get in.
Lotus and Vauxhall dealers. A brilliant combination.
Brigand said:
(1) I was giving a (new to me) Mk3 Golf GTi a mini-service and I opened the airbox to find the pre-filter section was chock full of nuts similar to peanuts. I'm not sure how they got there as they seemed too heavy to be sucked in and the convoluted piping leading to the box made that possibility even more unlikely.
Skwirls.davepoth said:
TheEnd said:
Skwirls.
Exactly that. If the car was parked up a lot in the same place and the intake is low mounted, they would find the hole and stash nuts there. Someone went hungry that year. 
David87 said:
Your Lexus was clearly owned by a self-harming celebrity stalker. 
Never found anything remotely interesting in any of mine, although I got a free Linkin Park album left in the VX220's CD player when I bought it.
I've gifted a CD to the next owner of my MINI. Never found anything remotely interesting in any of mine, although I got a free Linkin Park album left in the VX220's CD player when I bought it. Perhaps we could add a thread for things we tucked away but forgot to remove, which may surprise future owners.
I was thinking of posting this topic 
Found a pair of wet knickers under the seat of my rover 75 when removing the rear seat. Not sure if they were wet because of a water leak or other seepage.
BMW owner left me a couple of bottles of champagne in the boot. Quality guy to deal with.
Rover mini had the boots in the boot.
Found a pair of wet knickers under the seat of my rover 75 when removing the rear seat. Not sure if they were wet because of a water leak or other seepage.
BMW owner left me a couple of bottles of champagne in the boot. Quality guy to deal with.
Rover mini had the boots in the boot.
About 12 years ago my girlfriend at the time got a one year old Pug 306 from a main dealer. Had it a couple of weeks and started to notice a strange smell inside the cabin. I traced it to the back seat and removed to be faced with a vision of horror. In the void under the seat there was a huge pile of used condoms all well filled rotting away! After I had managed to keep my lunch down I put the seat base back and drove it to the dealer and asked them to find the source of the smell! They were horrified and replaced it with another car.
£200 hidden inside the first aid kit in the boot - had the car a year before I found it, can't imagine why the previous owner put it there (seems too much for filling up and discovering you'd left your wallet at home). As he had been pretty hard on price when we haggled I declined to post it back!
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