cleansing fire?
poor impulse control.
weird part is Jockey was in parking lot with car running when it started. ? was it shortly after starting car/AC? Still wondering about the pranking possibility. stinks either way
. I've had rentals that they used something similar but that you could tell from the moment you got in car. I assume you've done sniff tests of coolant/windshield wash for comparo.
Mud
The A/C had been running the entire errand run with the windows both up and down. It happened after parking, while the engine was idling, while I was in the car, with nobody near it.
I pulled the parking brake at the bank, and was deciding whether or not I wanted to bother going inside or just using the ATM, and then Bam!
The car is at the dealership, and they've already looked over it. To be sure they can identify the smells produced by common fluids in the vehicle.
I haven't even seen it since I dropped it off. They're waiting for VW to call them, it seems; which means I'm waiting for them to call me after VW calls them. The insurance fellow who's on a different mission may call in first, as I asked him to have a sniff and speak with them while he was there today. He's just going down for shipping damage, but the results of this little search may mandate his further participation.
There are certainly possibilities still on the table, but the timeline doesn't make sense.
The selling dealer may have used detailing agents in conflict with my direct requirement to avoid them... But how the hell did it take this long to show up? Over three weeks and 400 miles? That's what this dealer suspects, but they can't answer the question of why it suddenly popped out of nowhere anymore than I can. Let's say the delivery driver was particularly vengeful, and he just came by my house and squirted something in there... Well, same problem. Even if it was that very morning, I'd still spent over an hour in the car. I'd have smelled it the second I got in.
This is indeed a powerful odor to everyone who's smelled it, but I also happen to have an incredibly keen sense of smell, and I hate air fresheners and perfume
so much... There's no way I could have missed it. It's simply not possible.