vomit in cars

[Professor]

Dealership will charge an arm and a leg for it. Their prices are around $100/hour at some places. Typical mechanic rates are far cheaper - like $60/hr. And, I've found that dealerships aren't really the best places to get work done.

Call up your insurance company and ask them where they send cars to get body work done after a wreck. Don't make a claim, just ask who the good places are around town. They always know, since they send dozens of cars there per week. That place will be able to disassemble the car, clean it, and have it back together.

Make sure you get the good place, though. I use a place called Clean Fleet here in New Orleans (Metairie, actually). They did such a good job with a wrecked car that they even replicated all the factory paint markings on bolts, wax pencil markings, and other "tattletale" things that people look for to see if a car has been wrecked. Reason I say this is that when you go to sell it, if you get someone who inspects the car (like a dealership), they are going to look for these things.

[The Dharma Bum]

Take it to the dealership and make the guy who freaking puked all over your freaking car pay for it.

Aw man.

[Winchester]

[The Dharma Bum]

[PoS]

I love these Galt threads, they are hilarious.

Galt, didn't you notice it when you test drove the car?

[G5000]

[G5000]

Now you're wondering, "What gets vomit-stuffed ants out of cars?"



Ant traps.


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[G5000]

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[Professor]

I'll repeat. Don't take it to the dealerships. Being an amateur racecar driver, I know my share of mechanics. Some of the worst are the guys at the dealerships.

Why? Because a dealership has a reputation (in large part) built by those shiny, new cars sitting out front. Not the used ones coming out of the shop in the back. And, most dealership mechanics are trained to only work on one type of car, according to one specific manual. If it's not in the manual, they don't know how to do it.

Repair shops, on the other hand, build their reputations on one thing - the cars rolling out their doors. They can and have worked on most cars. They have had to clean mud out of interiors. I'll bet the larger ones have even done vomit, and still have the write-up on how to do it.

[G5000]