SKUNKED....need help !
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SKUNKED....need help !
Last night I was driving home from a sweet drive on PCH. I was near Pepperdine College on a back road when I started smelling a skunk. It was night time so I couldn't see that well, and before I knew it there was a dead skunk in the road. I swerved to miss running it over and could hear it hit under my car, and drag for a few then finally it was gone. My car is slammed mind you... The smell was....and still is! horrible, like gagging horrible..... When I got home, I looked under the car and couldn't see any animal bits or blood, just the smell. What the hell can I do to make the smell go away? My garage is a stink bomb right now! Any suggestions would be great, thank you!
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degrease the engine bay
high pressure wash the bottom of the car
then
top off, and 130MPH for 120 minutes ought to do the trick - with the AC and then the Heat on ....
this isnt proven, but it is a suggestion
high pressure wash the bottom of the car
then
top off, and 130MPH for 120 minutes ought to do the trick - with the AC and then the Heat on ....
this isnt proven, but it is a suggestion
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Get a small bottle (1/2 pint) of "Skunk Away", at least I believe that if the name.
I thin Vets have it in their offices or you can call one and ask.
White plastic squeeze bottle w/blue lettering.
One bottle in a 5 gallon sprayer w/a gallon and a half of warm water usually takes care of it.
Check to make sure there are no body parts of the little stinker wedged in your exhaust system first.
Good luck.
I thin Vets have it in their offices or you can call one and ask.
White plastic squeeze bottle w/blue lettering.
One bottle in a 5 gallon sprayer w/a gallon and a half of warm water usually takes care of it.
Check to make sure there are no body parts of the little stinker wedged in your exhaust system first.
Good luck.
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Dayum!! It's so bad I can even smell it in this thread Sorry I don't have any recommendation for you on how to get rid of it.
Sorry I don't have any recommendation for you on how to get rid of it.
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Go to a drive through yourself brush less car wash that has an under body spray option. Once you drive it and it starts, you can carefully go back and forth as often as you want to as long as you don't drive out of the beam that keeps it on.
Tomato juice works pretty good if you have a garden sprayer to spray it under the car with.
Get some foam ear plugs and put them in your nose.
Tomato juice works pretty good if you have a garden sprayer to spray it under the car with.
Get some foam ear plugs and put them in your nose.
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A mixture of Dawn dish soup, baking soda and hydrogen pyroxide is what we have used on our pets. I'd try the first two ingredients in a spray bottle. Thanks for the laugh.
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I wouldn't have thought about going to a Vet and getting something that would work on pets. Good idea.
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Get yourself some faster headlights and slow the hell down on those back roads! If you couldn't see it in time to slow down and go around or stop, that can be a dangerous practice. I've seen dead deer, bear, dogs, and even buzzards in the road, and none of them do any good for a Vette! 
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Originally Posted by wit2pz
Get yourself some faster headlights and slow the hell down on those back roads! If you couldn't see it in time to slow down and go around or stop, that can be a dangerous practice. I've seen dead deer, bear, dogs, and even buzzards in the road, and none of them do any good for a Vette!
My 100 watt euros are good for 150 MPH on a moonless night.-If you were so inclined. 
I haven't tried that myself.
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Bagged one myself first of April....only mine was alive.
I left car outside for 2 nights......tried spraying underneath at carwash the next day
Didn't help. Without a way to get underneath....it's pretty tough. I left it out all day long with the doors open and that helped too. I did NOT give it a douche though 
The stench went away in a week or so. I wouldn't be afraid to drive in some serious rain for awhile either. I think that helped mine also.
Good luck...it does eventually go away.
Bagged one myself first of April....only mine was alive.
I left car outside for 2 nights......tried spraying underneath at carwash the next day
Didn't help. Without a way to get underneath....it's pretty tough. I left it out all day long with the doors open and that helped too. I did NOT give it a douche though The stench went away in a week or so. I wouldn't be afraid to drive in some serious rain for awhile either. I think that helped mine also.
Good luck...it does eventually go away.
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Well I've got one you might not of heard of before. A man told me once that he was bird hunting and had no more than let his two bird dogs out when both of them got sprayed. He took them back to the house and tried everything he had ever heard of to no avail. He called his neighbor who had the reputation of being a mountain man of sorts and asked him if he had any idea's as he had tried everyting. The man told him to start brewing coffee and when it had cooled enough to pour on the dogs to start wetting them down with it. He said it worked and no more smell. I don't know if this would apply to the bottom of a car, but if none of the above work I guess it would be worth a try.
