Probably the worst luck ever, has this ever happened to you?

[Tigerhawk]

I'm so sorry this has happened to you. I know you don't want to however the smell will not go away if you don't find the body. The smell will get into the carpet and fabric of the car and it will be ruined. So if it were me I would disassemble the dash before it's to late. Again I'm so sorry for what has happened to you.

[IndigoMaverick91]

I'm really sorry about your string of bad luck. I've had those days/weeks/months. They aren't easy.

As far as the smell goes I mean I would definitely try to find the body but I won't harp on that anymore.
Vinegar(white) is usually really good for eliminating odors and germs. You could also try getting a few boxes of dryer sheets and leaving them in the car to help absorb some of the smell. Also just keep the windows down if possible and let it really air out. There's also a cleaning product called Odo-Ban that is really good for getting rid of odors in different upholsteries. I don't know if any of this will work for you but it's worth a shot.

Ill try the dryer sheets today and see I that might help alleviate it.
ive gotten used to it to where it doesn't really bother me except when I first get in my car.
Otherwise it's main my passengers whinin about it.

[IndigoMaverick91]

I'm so sorry this has happened to you. I know you don't want to however the smell will not go away if you don't find the body. The smell will get into the carpet and fabric of the car and it will be ruined. So if it were me I would disassemble the dash before it's to late. Again I'm so sorry for what has happened to you.

I've placed cardboard flats under te seats at the opening if the vents so if any drainage of fluids comes out, it won't ruin my carpeting.
I can't afford to have the dash taken apart. He's under the seats in the lower vents. Not the dash.
same thin happened o a friends brother , and he spent $370 and they found nothing when removing the dash. So I'm not going to pay someone to tear my car apart, only to find nothing. And then my be able to put everything back together properly.

[IndigoMaverick91]

wow... thats a bunch of really bad things.... first question first.... that family friend, did he survive? will he make it? "gunned down by police" sounds bad.

about the smell in the car... other than finding the source and removing it, i think you cannot do much, and it will take ages until it goes away.

i have one weird idea that may help with the car smell problem.... maybe try these dermestid corpse-eating beetles. you could introduce them into the car. if they can deal with it, they will eat it up, leaving behind a skeleton, a bunch of dead beetles, and no smell. and if the conditions are not right, well, you just have to vacuum up a few dead beetles. but no, it probarbly wont work, because the beetles seem to be hard to get and they also need water and when there is too much rot going on they may have trouble getting the job done. in the right conditions they could clean a snake, or any other small dead animal, down to the bones in just a few days, scientists and taxidermists use them to obtain perfectly white skeletons and bones. but they are too expensive and i have no clue if they would survive in the car and if enough of them would reach the snake.

i guess you really need to find and remove the source of the smell.

Sadly my
Friend did not make it :/ I called off work to go spend time with his wife to keep her company.
And I would leave the windows down, but I don't want an infestation of flies and maggots in there.
Those little disease carrying bastards can stay out. They've already tried getting in, and I just can't have that distraction while driving.

[Peoples]

In the future for travel place the snakes inside double pillow cases.