Oh dear my car is really like a stable!!!

My car resembles a skip too. seems to have more straw stuck on the carpet than the horses stable and since buying it 12 months ago i've washed it twice!

Talking of goats in cars, about 36 years ago my mother fetched 3 Jacob sheep back from market in the back of a Vauxhall Cresta with 3 smallish girls. I remember complaining about the bad smell. The sheep had been so traumatised they had pooped everywhere, gross.

We also knew a man called Ernie who bought horses for meat :( to feed his greyhounds who bought 2 shetland ponies at the sales and fetched them home in the back of his Jaguar!
 
I've got a little battered old micra - poor thing!
Usually the back seats are down to accommodate dogs, son's scooter, tack, hay etc.
Passenger footwell is overflowing with rubbish - DS bless him has to climb over this into his booster seat!
Back footwells are full of spare coats, emergency bottles of water, dog leads, poo bags etc etc... they dont know who I am at garage until I say messiest micra ever, often full of dogs, then they laugh their heads off and go 'oh yeah the one with the exhaust/clutch/handbrake trouble etc' Its a very old micra and I do hammer it....:o
 
So far just having a quick glance of my boot, there is a lunge line, headcollar and leadrope, grooming brushes, bailing twine, several fleeces, waterproof trousers and 2 pairs of wellies. Not to mention the 2 tubtrugs on the back seat, several bags of apples in various stages of decomposition and the mud on the floor of the driver seat thats also somehow become smeared all over the door. Finished off nicely with the permeating smell of haylage. :D
 
Mine was like this. Several years ago I was once giving some friends a lift home from the pub and I got pulled over by the police because one of said friends was looking at them suspiciously.:( They asked to search the car but took one look and a sniff in the boot stuffed with horse gear that they changed their minds!! :o
 
It's amazing how filthy they get!!
Currently couldn't accommodate a single passenger as am full with horse feed, rubbish, dog crate in boot, wellies, hi-fi lite belted into front passenger seat!!!!
I might add it's a focus estate and still not big enough!!!

I did also find a dead mouse in car aswell........ Gross!!! :)
 
Mine is a nature reserve. David Bellamy has awarded it Gold status!
Not only is it filled with stable stuff, 3 kids and a bearded collie, I also use it for gardening rounds so it is a mobile insectarium.
Worst time was moving pampas grass to our local tidy tip and getting out screaming, whilst the car was moving, having noticed no less than 15 big spiders on the roof lining and above my head!
The kids hate me for it. Aarrrgghhh!
 
Mine has an unused feather duster, weight tape,spare set of clothing, screw driver gaffer tape, wormers, two pairs of very dirty shoes. Dog beds and mats and horsy stuff assorted with loads and mud and dust to make it all look filthy.
I have a very small AX so when you put two large dogs in it there isn't room for anything else.
Will muck out in spring
 
So glad I'm not the only one with a mobile skip,
I tried to clean it and got 4 sacks of rubbish... which are still in the car because i haven't got round to going to the tip. It also contains 5 pairs of shoes and a pair of wellies, a saddle, a lunge rope, a pair of jeans, 2 coats, half my first aid kit which fell out and i never bothered to pick up, pretty sure theres some quality street choclolates on the floor somewhere that fell out when i threw the tin in the back to make space for a passenger, a plant pot and a bag of chaff on the passenger seat...
Quite proud I've managed to fit all of that into a little toyota yaris, one day I might even find the carpet in the back again :D
 
Me and daughter periodically feel very ashamed and take OHs very nice sporty car (which smells of the muck heap) to the car wash and hoover and clean it whilst there!

Last time it was so bad we had to pay twice for the hoovet and buy a magic tree!!!!

*no smiles as on tablet but insert ashamed face here*
 
I have a pet mouse in my car too - although how it survives with three dogs going in the car regularly, I don't know.

I have to admit, my car is a tip - once the garage refused to do the MOT as it smelled of horse too much, and I had to clean it!

To top it off, one year some kids gave it "red noses" with tomato paste (it is a white car), since then, for some reason it has grown green algae all over it. So it gets washed about every six months with domestos to kill the algae!!!!!
 
This thread has made me feel much better about my car, so thanks everyone for that! :p
I have the usual array of clothing, footwear, horsey stuff and doggy accessories but I have managed thus far to keep it all contained in the boot. It is now starting to spill onto the back seats though...having 4 doors is very convenient for just flinging stuff in :o
 
Haha, a mouse, that made me chuckle! My car is certainly like a tack room, two saddles perched on top of the back seat (ideal saddle rack, lol) two bridles, rugs in boot along with hats, hi viz's and feed, oh and the odd carrot or two rolling around!
 
I have an urban car... Oh yes I don't do horses in it.... Hat lasted long.... Fill of lidl horsey shopping..... It's dreadful...... Untidy cars are a family failing..... We are not tidy car people.
 
Hexx said:
I have a pet mouse in my car too - although how it survives with three dogs going in the car regularly, I don't know.

I have to admit, my car is a tip - once the garage refused to do the MOT as it smelled of horse too much, and I had to clean it!

To top it off, one year some kids gave it "red noses" with tomato paste (it is a white car), since then, for some reason it has grown green algae all over it. So it gets washed about every six months with domestos to kill the algae!!!!!
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Mine is absolutely awful and I'm surprised the garage didn't complain when they did my MOT. That said, I had removed tack from the boot and had taken out the (oodles of) empty crisp packets, wrappers etc which my little darling children (grr) drop. But it still reeked of horse, I'm sure.

My OH despairs. It's actually (underneath the dirt) a fairly smart looking car but the inside is just ruined and would need a major springclean if I wanted to sell it. I dread giving lifts to people as it is so terrible inside!

I use it on business but always make sure I park it away from where anyone might see that it's mine!!
 
You lot should come to our garage for the MOT, my OH has horses and is a mechanic with a Discovery that is dirtier than the horse trailer by miles! I once drove it to Heathrow for a trip and gave a colleague a lift back to Manchester in it. As he was getting in I casually joked, "you're not allergic to animals are you?" and he said he was! Our car is covered in hair and mud, and stinks of wet labs and horses. He still came as it was Xmas Eve, snowy and flights up were getting cancelled, but we had to shovel piriton down his neck all the way up!

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One of the horse feeds tipped over in the car and there was sugar beet everywhere. I put a couple of my chickens in there to clear it up :) I thought it was a brilliant idea (and so did they) but OH was horrified. ;))
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I think that is so clever!! Now trying to think what I can get my hens to hoover - wonder if they will fit under my kitchen units where the dogs can't reach!
 
Oh dear - lol! I have to wash & clean my little car for it's MOT this week. As I transport hay & straw bales in it, you can imagine the state of where the back seats are supposed to be, but who knows I may have a whole new bale made up of bits! I might find the 4 spare coats, hats & various other necessities once I vacuum it though! I haven't got a mouse but it does pong of horse wee a fair bit. Like I care! ;)
 
I maintain that I am deep littering my car

I can literally produce anything and everything from it

Someone asked me for dog treats the other day, I proudly produced two packets but was slightly embarassed that an ice lolly mould set worked its way to the top of the junk as I was looking - god knows when I bought that!

Someone was trying to load my car with some boxes recently and they were just a bit too big, they suggested that I remove some of the junk to make some more room height-wise and I honestly said 'you cant disturb the underneath layers - it makes the rest of it stable' lol
 
Feel for me!

I was in a position where I was having to give my CEO a lift tonight so made my excuse that I had an appointment to go to an hour before he was leaving, so he didn't have to get in my rotten stinking car! If he had, I would never have lived it down....
 
This thread is cheering me up no end about the state of my car. Had to give a lift to a work colleague today so I rushed down to the car before her to give it a dousing with febreeze which luckily I keep in the car for such occasions. Note to self - remember to lift this weeks sacks of carrots out of the boot.:p
 
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I maintain that I am deep littering my car

I can literally produce anything and everything from it
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I shall use that excuse too!

I also can seemingly produce anything from mine. Its downfall is that there are lots of storage bins in it, so guess what... I use them for storage. Things I can think off the top of my head that are in there... lead ropes (several), picnic blanket (well why not in this weather), bottles of water (sensible!), snow shovel (ditto), pull up banners for my business, girths (several), 3 saddles, various travel games for the kids, waterproof trousers, several jackets, driving shoes, sweets. If I broke down I could probably survive a week on what's in there...
 
My car is the same! Lots of coats and waterproofs, wellies, first aid kits, numnahs, brushing boots, dog blankets, leads, candlestick holder (???), rubbish, gloves, tack...

Imagine how much fuel we would all save though if we decluttered our cars.... :/
 
Thank you all so much!! I have spent a fabulous half hour thinking that all your vehicles are much worse than mine!! But only just!!! I do keep my gear in various baskets/bags and I don't have feed/dogs in mine!! But hubby is disgusted!!! Good for horsey chicks!!!
 
Our truck carries trees, logs, feed, round bales, pigs, goats, dogs, anything you can think of in the bed, it hauls trailers and hay wagons, it is filthy - on the outside, but God help me if I leave as much as a gas receipt or a cup in the cab :eek:

Apart from dust and the inevitable bit of snow, the thing is spotless inside, the seats have covers, even all the winter paraphenalia is stashed under seats out of sight. OH does not do untidy vehicles. The mini is the same. I can't blame him, he is allergic to animal hair, and uses both vehicles to commute, in months of sub zero temps a dirty vehicle would stink with the heat on and he'd be practically blind with his allergies.

The garage on the other hand looks as if a bomb has gone off in there, there is even a pen full of ducklings because they still need a heatlamp.
 
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I once gave a colleague a lift to see a supplier. A ninety mile round trip. He didn't say a word 'till we got back, then, as he stepped out of the car he said "That's the first time I've had to wipe my feet on the way out!" :eek:

Since then, apart from the Disco, my cars are far more reasonably kept :rolleyes:

I don't keep gear in as a rule as there's too great a risk of it going walkabout, given some of the places I end up parking in :cool:
 
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Glad I am not the only one. I had a mouse in my car a few months ago, it had eaten its way through some old clothes I kept in there for changing into if I got too wet. It also ate its way through a bag of sweets I kept for the children. I cleaned out all the rubbish and banned sweets for a while and havent seen it since. Needless to say I still have a filthy smelly car and have to refuse to give lifts to clean posh people. Those who are covered in horse muck and mud are allowed as long as they don't complain. I also have to make sure I dont leave the horse feed in there for days on end.
 
I have found hay and feed festering in the bottoms of the baby car seats. The boot is a constant state of bedding with pony nuts and mushy stuff mixed in. There's odd horse boots and waterproofs and a saddle. And that's my non horsey OH's car :o

My friend's is just brilliant. You Literally cannot MOVE for bags of feed, mouldy tack and rugs. She owns a native youngster that isn't on hard feed, isn't yet ridden and doesn't wear any rugs. She just never cleaned the car out from when her old horse died three years ago :eek: :D
 
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