Serious question, has anyone else had a customer bring in a car with a squirrel living in the airbox?

Last week in the shop, a guy brought his Civic in for a weird noise. I popped the hood and found a whole nest of acorns and leaves packed into the air filter box. The squirrel itself was long gone, but it left a chewed up vacuum line behind. The customer just stared and said, 'So that's where my missing garden hose nozzle went.' What's the weirdest thing you've found living in a car?

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sage_perry1d ago

My buddy in Florida had a truck that smelled like death for weeks. He finally looked under the back seat and found a dead possum wrapped in a plastic grocery bag. It must have crawled up through a rust hole in the floor. The smell never really came out, he ended up selling the truck for parts.

black.margaret1d ago

Holy crap, the garden hose nozzle detail got me lmao. That squirrel was out here doing home improvement projects in his engine bay. The weirdest I've seen was a family of mice that made a nest out of fast food napkins in a glove box.