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Ok, here's one for you.


How many of you have bought a car or parts from someone and when they arrive, it's everything you wanted—and more—except, it stinks so bad that you almost can't breathe around it.



My "new" RPS Yokomo arrived today, and it's stunningly new. Just awesome. I've waited for this car for almost 25 years, and now I finally have one. I'm stoked.

The box that it came in smells worse than a grandmother's basement. It's not smoke, I don't think. It's worse than musty and stale. It's terrible. I can't stand it. I opened the car up at home at lunch, and I've washed my hands 3 times since, and I can't get away from the smell. I don't know what to do about it, because it's repulsive. I'm going to probably have to dismantle the entire car (planned anyway) to clean everything in denatured alcohol.


Ever get something that smelled so bad that you didn't want it in the workshop?

For that car, I will put up with the smell. Just send it to me, I can stomach it. Your problem will be solved.

mrlexan wrote:For that car, I will put up with the smell. Just send it to me, I can stomach it. Your problem will be solved.

I think all it needs is a good bathing.


What the hell do people do with this stuff to make it smell so rancid?

It didn't smell like that when I sent it to you!





No, I've never receive anything like that, but I am a retired contractor, and I've been in plenty of houses that you literally couldn't breath in. The worst one I lovingly referred to as "the cat house". According to the neighbor, the previous owner (government took it over and hired me to remodel it to habitable/salable condition ) had more than 20 cats and several dogs with no litter box. The walls throughout the house were urine stained 16" off the floor and the wall furnace had to be replaced because it was rusted out from the urine. It took bleach, cat odor remover, pressure washing, and 3 coats of pigmented shellac to seal the slab floor and all the walls before you could breath in the house. The odor was still very strong until every (and I mean EVERY ) surface, nook, and cranny had been painted, covered in vinyl, and carpet. We even sprinkled several industrial sized boxes of baking soda before the carpet was installed. Once we handed the keys over it was just a slightly musty smell was all that was left. My girlfriend is a librarian and has stories of books coming back that smelled worse than a month old cat box or that were full of cockroaches.

The worst I have experienced is a box that smells like a box full of cigarette butts. Sorry to all those members who do smoke (I mean no offense), but I can't stand the smell of it. When we visit with the in laws back home in Florida, we end up bringing it back laced through every piece of our clothes in our suit case as well.

mrlexan wrote:The worst I have experienced is a box that smells like a box full of cigarette butts. Sorry to all those members who do smoke (I mean no offense), but I can't stand the smell of it. When we visit with the in laws back home in Florida, we end up bringing it back laced through every piece of our clothes in our suit case as well.

i know dude... i'm sure my stuff stinks...

i helped my grandpa and uncles over the summers remodeling and general construction stuff. there was a couple jobs where we had to replace rotted bathroom floors due to leaks rotting the wood and people missing the toilet. the worst was fixing an old ladies toilet AND porch. her toilet had stopped working so she peed in a pan and threw it out on the porch. i guess she did it for years, the porch wood was all rotted and just awefull. my uncle wade puked a couple times. hehe.

badhoopty wrote: i know dude... i'm sure my stuff stinks...

So, your future auctions won't be listing items from a "smoke-free home"...

How's that working out for you? Good, I hope.

templeofspeed wrote:

badhoopty wrote: i know dude... i'm sure my stuff stinks...

So, your future auctions won't be listing items from a "smoke-free home"...

How's that working out for you? Good, I hope.

its a shamefull thing when you dont succeed and somebody asks you how its going...

i didnt smoke for about a week though after i tried to quit, and since then i smoke half as much. its still smoking though...

badhoopty wrote:
its a shamefull thing when you dont succeed and somebody asks you how its going...

i didnt smoke for about a week though after i tried to quit, and since then i smoke half as much. its still smoking though...

OK, sorry I brought it up...

naw dude its no big deal. i just need to quit smoking, thats all. it'll happen.

Now doesn't this remind anyone of that ebay auction for the NIB the cat ppeed in?

badhoopty wrote:naw dude its no big deal. i just need to quit smoking, thats all. it'll happen.

Well get on it man, some of us are trying to breathe around here!!!




I smoked for about 12 years and it took me a few tries to quit. What did it for me was when I couldn't go without a smoke. That was the day I threw the pack in the trash and never looked back. The hankerings lingered for about a year, even now, in certain situations I could really go for one, and it's been about 10 years since I've smoked. The interesting thing was having to "learn" how to be a non-smoker. No excuses to take a break anymore, I worked my arse off! LOL Everything that you associate with a smoke makes you want one, unfortunately. It does eventually go away though, just depends on your will power.

Don't throw the box away. Just throw in a bag of charcoal granulars (carbon) and it will absorb the smell in a couple of days...Hope these help

Brat wrote:Don't throw the box away. Just throw in a bag of charcoal granulars ...

And a little lighter fluid, and a ...

Halgar wrote:

Brat wrote:Don't throw the box away. Just throw in a bag of charcoal granulars ...

And a little lighter fluid, and a ...

STEAK!!!