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2003 Model Smells

Discussion in 'Dealers & Pricing' started by juggler, Mar 23, 2006.

  1. juggler

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    I was shopping at a dealership this past weekend and test-drove a 2003 pre-owned Prius. That Prius had a distinct smell of llamas or livestock...something very gamey.

    I then went to a completely different dealership and test-drove another 2003 Prius. I was amazed to find out that the faint smell of llamas persisted, but wasn't as strong as the first car's smell.

    Am I imagining things? What could be causing this car smell? My best guess is the batteries or a smelly ventilation system that hasn't been cleaned.

    *shrug*

    Thanks.

    --juggler
     
    #1 juggler, Mar 23, 2006
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    This has to be one of the most unusual posts I have seen here... A first generation prius that smells like llamas... thats special...
     
    #2 bgdrewsif, Mar 23, 2006
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    Did they come from New Orleans?
     
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    Does sewage, toxic chemicals, decomposing dead bodies, and the filth of poverty smell like llamas?
     
    #4 bgdrewsif, Mar 23, 2006
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    Does WinAMP come with the 2003 Prius. It does, after all, whip the llama's nice person.
     
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    LOL Hmmmm sounds like someones been vent sniffing again.. LMAO! :lol:

    No really, maybe the privious owners were Lama herders or were such water conservationists that they didn't bathe until they started to smell gamey...
    or they had a lama fetish and got the lama car air freshener..

    :lol:
     
    #6 hycamguy07, Mar 23, 2006
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    No comment on llamas, but alpaca new cabin air filter to make my Prius smell better.

    DAS
     
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    Yeah, I wish I were making it up. Unfortunately, friends I was with smelled the gamey smell as well. It was both funny and unnerving at the same time. :unsure:
     
    #8 juggler, Mar 28, 2006
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    Haha!
     
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    The llama says BAAAAAA BAAAAAAA BAAAAA!!!
     
    #10 bgdrewsif, Mar 28, 2006
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    My mom and I both have also smelled something similar in a 2005 Prius. I also started to wonder if it's the battery mechanism or something...?

    Guess we'll never know. I think you have to have a pretty sensitive nose to pick it up, and the smell is not always there.

    Let the rest of them BAAA away. I don't think you're crazy at all!
     
    #11 Miss_Taz, Mar 28, 2006
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    You smell. It stinks.

    :D

    cheers
     
    #12 robinsod, Mar 28, 2006
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(juggler @ Mar 23 2006, 04:24 AM) [snapback]228960[/snapback]</div>
    Maybe you sat in something in the first car, it stuck to your pants and when you got into the confined space of the second car you smelled it again.
     
    #13 genalex, Apr 21, 2006
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