Best (or worst) stuff found in a newly bought car?

[Verysleepyboy]

Taking delivery of my (new to me) Porsche last week, I went through the first sift of clearly own the previous owners gifts that had been left in there:

So far I have found:

• Fire extinguisher - dated 2024
• A childs seatbelt comfort thing in a green dinosaur? pattern
• Assorted Halfords tools including a 3/8" Professional ratchet, extension bar and 13mm socket
• Lin bin of various bolts, trim plugs, etc.
• Box of assorted bullet fuses
• New packet of Armourall interior wipes
• New car of WD40 (with straw)
• Bits of wiring and 2 remotes for the Chinese carplay stereo
• Various disposable lighters
• Old paperwork (MOTs, receipts, etc.) for the car shoved into the glovebox instead of in the history file
• And (not shown) a carrier bags worth of assorted sh!te including old rags, oily tissues, a Blueberry vape and a decorators trowel!

 

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What are the best and worst things you have found in your new (used) cars???

 

 

[Marina door handles]

Seems like you hit the jackpot there! The oddest thing I found in a car were 2 Opel Ascona (Cav Mk2 style) front grilles in my MGBGT. I tried to make it fit the MG but it just didn't work! If anyone needs an Ascona grille let me know....

 

 

[comfortablynumb]

Ahem...

£300 in used £50 notes under a carpet of a £400 spares car.

Even took them to the bank to make sure they were real (they were) 😁

[Verysleepyboy]

1 minute ago, comfortablynumb said:

Ahem...

£300 in used £50 notes under a carpet of a £400 spares car.

Even took them to the bank to make sure they were real (they were) 😁

That's a real bonus!!!

[artdjones]

I lifted the mat on a Mk 2 Escort once to find a chalky deposit on the carpet underneath, which had to be scraped off. I later found out it was where the dog had spewed, which they dealt with by throwing the mat on top of it.

[timolloyd]

£20 hidden inside the steering wheel boss of a S3 Land Rover.

[Markeh]

A Streets CD in the Meriva. Other than that, not much!

[Andyrew]

This was in the car when I got it about 6 years ago. Photo taken today!

[mk2_craig]

A pay packet with £50 in, under the passenger seat of a £75 XR2.  £50 paid for a lot of fuel back in 1996. 

Got a free Fiesta 1.1 a few years later with the boot full of new parts (discs, pads, clutch, slave cylinders…) but I’ve still got them all!!

[EyesWeldedShut]

Couple of CDs, homemade compilation tape and (on an old Moggie) a red backed driving licence from the 1960s that was hooked under the driver’s seat

 

[Rightnider]

A pair of scissors (professional medical ones) which I still use. Marked ”district nurse”. Found in a 1980 Granada 2,8i LS in 1998, I think. 

[doug]

Set of broken false teeth in a tupperware tub. Unused durex. Not in the same vehicle thankfully.

[cort16]

Bacon roll. My guess was it had been there at least a month 

[Agila]

4 minutes ago, doug said:

 Unused durex.

That could have been sooooo much worse.

Just be thankful the previous owner was probably ugly.

[Rust Collector]

I’ve found Japanese coins in imports, and a used colostomy bag in another car.

[Agila]

Lots of empty bullet casings, police pursuit guidelines on the sun visor.

From a V70 T5 from auction, straight from Humberside police.

[Remspoor]

5 hours ago, Verysleepyboy said:

Fire extinguisher - dated 2024

Do not throw that away. It will still be usable. Even when the pressure gauge says it is low just get it repressurised.

I have only ever found the old small bit of loose change dust or mud.

[cobblers]

When I was 15 I bought a MK2 XR2 off the local bloke who always had something for sale. It had no engine, light front end damage and a smashed windscreen but I didn't care because I just wanted all this bits off it to put on my 1300 and make it look like an XR2. I paid £70 and he delivered it to my nans drive where I was "doing up" another fiesta ready for when I passed my test.

I was young and lived in a shit area and was surrounded by wronguns so I didn't ask any questions, but it was quite clear that anything that came off this bloke wasn't entirely ethically sourced. But this was 1990s rotherham and I thought everyone bought dodgy stuff like this.

When stripping it down, I lifted  drivers side carpet and found a decent sized lump of the worst skunk resin in the world that had clearly been hidden in the "vin flap" but got lost , but any weed is good weed when you're 15. It lasted us weeks.

On the same car, when looking closely at the shattered windscreen I found bits of human hair in the cracks 👀

When I'd got all the bits off it I paid the same bloke £20 to collect the shell for scrap, but it turns out on the way home he just pushed it off the back of his truck about 800 yards away in the entryway to a farmers field and set it on fire, but being a more or less empty shell it didn't really burn. My nan absolutely bollocked me because it was absolutely obvious to all her neighbours that this was that car that had been on her drive for 3 months and I spent quite a long time terrified that the police or the farmer would come after me

 

[comfortablynumb]

MK1 son spent a bit of time welding up the bulkhead on an old landy s2 he'd got to sell on. There was a fair few repairs needed, unsurprisingly.

What was more surprising, and somewhat disconcerting, was when he got towards the centre section, and decided to remove the central Speedo and gauges to allow for some better access, and half a dozen fairly badly corroded live 10 gauge shotgun cartridges fell out 😱

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[FakeConcern]

When I bought my first 1275GT it was fitted with a Rokee dashboard and hidden inside was a Polaroid pic taken from the waist down of a naked lad with the smallest cock I've ever seen.

 

Mrs Concern was fascinated.

 

We left it under the wiper on the windscreen of a mates Beetle.

 

 

[Cavcraft]

Plenty of both. The worst of the worst was what I believe was baby/child faeces in the back of a Fiat Punto, iirc. 

[Cavcraft]

1 minute ago, FakeConcern said:

inside was a Polaroid pic taken from the waist down of a naked lad with the smallest cock I've ever seen.

 

 

 

 

Soz. It was very cold though.

[Billy - Medhurst]

14 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

The worst of the worst was what I believe was baby/child faeces in the back of a Fiat Punto, iirc. 

Soiled nappy in a Audi 80 i bought. Just why!!

[Missy Charm]

Most memorably:

1) A CD of David Gray's 'White Ladder'.  Okay for what it was, but not really my sort of music.  

2) A packet of foreign-brand cigarettes.  Smoked 'em. 

3) A used condom in the ashtray of a Citroen Saxo VT-Something during a test drive.  I didn't buy the car.

4) A 10" diameter hole in the floor of the boot of a BMW I once went to look at.  I didn't buy the car.

My dad can top all that: he once went to look at a second-hand car that was up for sale, opened one of the doors and discovered that it was, in fact, the front and back halves of two different cars that had been welded together.  Those were the days.  

[MikeR]

A knife under the driver's seat of the Whizz kid ..... Must of been a Nice chap who dumped in the auctions  ???? 

[Bren]

A small troll toy under the centre console of an SD1 I bought.

Our passat had a 12v tyre inflator in the boot which we still use.

My insignia had a 1/2" breaker bar and a de walt battery in the boot.

My sister bought an ancient polo years ago - under the boot floor she found paperwork for someone who was on bail and an implement used for fishing for things through letterboxes.

[HillmanImp]

@cms206 

[Lord Sterling]

Absolutely bollock-all of interest, even in the cars I used to drive as a trade-plater.

• CDs, one memorable one was a burned CD with a mix of Bhangra music and some English pop stuff.

• Change, but never enough to even make a quid.

• 3 x old-style £10 notes. Worth fuck all.

• Brand new set of floor mats in cars that already had them and weren't worn at all.

• Maybe some tools and a spare plug-in air compressor in a car that already had one.

[delux]

Best thing...

Bought a Micra, years ago. The original scissor jack was wrapped in a faded yellow T shirt with Burt Reynolds and the words 'What would the Bandit do?'

I've lived my life to that philosophy since!

 

Worst thing...

My last Jimny had a Phil Collins CD stuck in which wouldnt switch off or eject unless the ignition was off. As soon as it was turned back on, Phil would start up again. If anyone finds a silver single CD player by the side of the A1 just south of Berwick upon Tweed, thats it!

[timolloyd]

🎶 another day in shite paradise 🎶