We’re on the way to swim practice this moring at oh-dark-thirty and all heck breaks loose inside the car. Loud squeeking noise, kind of an odd smell, not good.
We stop and open the hood. There is a belt that drives the alternator and power steering pump- it is shredded and, oddly enough, covered in… fur it looks like.
I cut the belt with a pocket knife and remove it so we can make it to the pool and the power steering, of course, no longer driven by the belt, is out. It feels like I’m steering a supertanker.
We take the car in, a Jeep. The guys at the dealer call back three hours later to report they have dislodged a very dead skunk from the engine compartment and it will, thank you very much, be $150.
I heard the funniest bit on Car Talk where a lady hit a skunk in her BMW. She worked for a prestigious CPA or law firm and they wouldn’t let her park her car in the parking structure. Somehow stink parts of the skunk got lodged underneath her car where they couldn’t be washed out. The smell got worse and worse over time. I hope this doesn’t happen to you.
Tom, you will never get that smell out. My brother and I shot some skunks on my grandpa’s farm a couple of years ago and my brother threw one up on the trailer in the boneyard. I think the glands emptied on the wood of the trailer and to this day, that trailer still stinks.
Like someone else said, just be glad it wasn’t your bike.
Mike
Nope, not buyin it. I would have let you off with SOS if you didn’t mention the “bone yard”; like it is a common term that everyone would relate to. You’re a certified HB!
First the Subaru met the pole, now the Jeep meets a skunk. It’s a good job that bikes are your trade Tom, imagine the true stories you could give with an inventory of cars!
We take the car in, a Jeep. The guys at the dealer call back three hours later to report they have dislodged a very dead skunk from the engine compartment and it will, thank you very much, be $150.
Someone needs to explain to all the skunks out there. This is what happens when you get an engine compartment cheap, and don’t get fitted for it first.
