Joseph Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 ...or in your car in general? Different parts of motors hide all sorts of shite. Worst place is no doubt under the back bench seat. Old sticky sweets, muck, shopping lists, even the odd fiver if you're lucky. Can be horrible to lift up the rear seat of a newly-acquired car to see what treasures are hidden within. So has anyone found anything interesting, brilliant or disgusting down the back seat of their cars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobthebeard Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 ...or in your car in general? Different parts of motors hide all sorts of shite. Worst place is no doubt under the back bench seat. Old sticky sweets, muck, shopping lists, even the odd fiver if you're lucky. Can be horrible to lift up the rear seat of a newly-acquired car to see what treasures are hidden within. So has anyone found anything interesting, brilliant or disgusting down the back seat of their cars? Often found a couple of stale Hula Hoops* and the occasional inside bit of a ball point pen. So far nothing remotely interesting or valuable sadly. * Presumeably. Other salty,round potato based snacks are available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I once had a mk2 cavalier that brought forth about 30 black plastic tyre valve caps from various orifices for no apparent reason. I think we have had a similar thread on here which included scenes of a sexual nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shep Shepherd Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Not long after I bought The Volvo, I removed about 20 Callard & Bowser Clotted Cream Toffee wrappers and an old-style 50p piece from under its driver's seat. I found a whole raft of signed permission slips for an unspecified field trip under the back seat of TV2; its first/previous owner was an ex-RAF officer turned secondary school teacher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Around 2006 i was given a H reg Mazda 929 estate the lad was moving back to Canada.It had been used as a bin with used and new nappies, Maccy d cartons,clothes when i cleaned it out i got 5 bin bags full of rubbish but also a full socket set,2x soldering irons around 40 CD's and about £4.00. Ran it up to the scrap yard and got £135 for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Nowt very interesting, nothing more than, the odd loose change, some shopping list and dirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobthebeard Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Didn't someone on here find a twenty pee coin under the back seat of his worthy old chod that then fell into the handbrake assembly* or something? A five pee coin that then fell into the cigarette lighter and shut down Falkirk for a week? Come on guys! Rack yer brains! Edit. Think the back seat/ five pee coin/fag lighter incident also involved 68 kittens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sawdustman Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Found an E in my first car under the back seat. Fun day valeting that was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Rustbucket Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 A £1 coin wedged in the seat mechanism which is why the passenger's seat didn't seem to go down as low as the driver's. A conversion card from gallons to litres, including prices (frighteningly low) which must be older than the car, and a letter from President Monge - or at least the envelope from one, also older than the car. This was behind the dash. Bounteous, my car! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 That's about as good as it's ever got, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetleysmooth Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 When I removed the airbox from my wife's diesel Pajero, I found a nice pair of sidecutters.After a bit of WD, they worked perfectly.Must have been there for years.Result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Like others on here: DustBits of penVarious bits of coinageSweet wrappersHoola Hoops - must be compulsory!Newish mobile phone - needed charging and unlocking but served me well Slightly off topic: Once hid a Red Duster, several hundred fags and some other bits from HM Customs in the bulkhead of the MV Manchester Renown in 1980. Stupid brother in law came early to pick me up and I never had enough time to unscrew the bulkhead and retrieve them. I was rather unhappy. Imagine how surprised they were when they scrapped the ship a few years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bub2006 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 I've never found much interesting in a car bar about a fiver of loose change in the ashtray of a rover. One that sticks in my mind is my dad bought a immaculate Renault 9 gtx from the local reverend. Tucked under back seat was a leather riding crop and black fur handcuffs. Most peculiar I must say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 206 had the smashed bottom of a jamjar embedded under the rear bench206 - half a fag with the end rolled up (been used for spliff rolling) fell out the dash when I fitted my head unitPuma - loads of monopoly houses from behind the rear doorcardsLandy - 2 sets of jump leadsZX - The pins for the broken rear jesus handle, which was handy.Zafira - A 'your child has headlice' note from nottinghamshireZafira - Half the toolkit from the previous engineer who had it. Stepdad was not amused (being an MD) and casually asked the guy if he had all his tools. The guy sheepishly said no, and was told to expect a parcel, and inform someone next time! (I may have kept a really nice long handled phillips screwdriver...) Found a tenners worth of change when I pulled the carpet up out the Puma! Must have fallen out my pocket over 2 years and gone behind the seat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 You can add my name to the list of people who have never found anything interesting under their car seat. HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SambaS Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 A big hole leading to Narnia on the Cabriolet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcitroen Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Not very exciting, but when I removed the front carpet set from the BX, I found some random old French coinage. Must have fell out of a workers pocket! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 My personal experiences have not yielded anything interesting when lifting the rear seat. However, it seems to be that the last four cars which we have bought have came with a free CD or cassette: Micra: Michael Jackson - ThrillerPolo: Country & Western 'Greatest Hits'V40: Chris Rea 'Dancing with strangers'S40: Co. Armagh Loyalist Band's erm, greatest hits... I've heard of others who have had more interesting finds. Such as the owner of a small secondhand car dealership who took a wander round some of his recenty-acquired stock one day, and amounted enough lost change to enjoy a meal out. ...Another one which I've read about involved a guy who used to buy ex-customs seizures. A recently purchased car had a rather 'lumpy' rear tyre which he thought needed changing. When he took the tyre off the rim he found sixty packets or fags inside, and the same again on the other side. I think he got sick of trying to give them away at the end of it all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micrashed Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 When I got the Fiesta back from the impound after it was stolen under the back seat was: 2x £10 bags heroinhalf a dozen packs of citric2x 1ml syringe (orange needles) In the boot however was the best haul of all containing prison issue clothes, VHS video recorder, several benefit books, prison letters and even more drug paraphernalia. However the 2 gross of assorted fruit flavored durex that were in the boot when the car was stolen along with the kids swimming bags and a Haynes BOL were not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiny Norman Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Mostly crud, the odd pound coin now and again maybe...I once found a demo tape of some punky-indie-rock type band jammed down the side of the back seat in a Renault 5 I once had. Had a couple of quite decent songs on it but I'd never heard of them so I don't think they didn't hit the big time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willswitchengage Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 I found a wallet in a black cab once, only to get home and discover it was my own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 One dead crispy mouse, one durex(unused) and a sheet of paper detailing procedures in the event of T in the Park having to be evacuated in an emergency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSparrow Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Not very exciting, but when I removed the front carpet set from the BX, I found some random old French coinage. Must have fell out of a workers pocket! Sounds more like a disgruntled line worker trying to make the cars sound rattly a la BL circa 1976. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobthebeard Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 One dead crispy mouse, one durex(unused). Do not, whatever you do, get these two mixed up by mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joethornton1986 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 bought an '86 Escort last year which had a mad early alarm system fitted that didnt work... when i removed it there was a full pack of 3 condoms that went out of date in 1993 behind the unit. also had a mk3 capri a few years ago an found a bra under the passenger seat....apart from that the same, loose change/biro's/hula hoops/sweet wrapers/etc.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M'coli Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 One dead crispy mouseThis could mean any one of the following things:1) The mouse was dead, and crispy.2) The mouse was very, very, very crispy indeed.3) Both of the above. So, spill the beans - which one was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobthebeard Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 One dead crispy mouseThis could mean any one of the following things:1) The mouse was dead, and crispy.2) The mouse was very, very, very crispy indeed.3) Both of the above. So, spill the beans - which one was it? Or possibly, a live mouse that loved Hula Hoops? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Station Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Bought Saab last Friday. Ad said needs a valet.Arrive, large smelly greasey sweaty man greets me, got in car. It absolutely hums. Get home, my clothes smell of car. Next day I set about cleaning. Every inch of the interior stinks of sweat, fags and general filth. There's chips lodged down the sides of the seats, tobacco everywhere, hair wrapped around bits of gunk on the carpet. What I assume is snot on the inside of the window, what looks like a broken egg yolk on the drivers door card (this could've been spit or possibly something I really hope it isn't, but it wouldn't frigging surprise me) and the typical ashtrays full with fag ends. Finale was the glove box rubber mat layered in a thick sticky substance. All cleaned with industrial jet wash and industrial carpet cleaner. It was DISGUSTING and it still has a smell. PLEASE everyone Hoover your car before you sell it, or at least remove the debris from the centre console you dirty bastards ffs!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 About 13 years ago I bought two doors for a granada I had at the time. On removing one of the door cards and peeling back the foam membrane on one of them ready for spraying, I spied an old Sharp calculator inside the door - it still worked as well. No doubt about ten years previously some engineer at either Cologne or Genk was wondering where the hell he had left his calculator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garycox Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 The Carlton I bought off Wuvvum had an 8 track cartridge in the boot for some reason. Can't remember what it was now, I probably still have it somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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