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Tell SEAT what the worst things your DC have done to your car - £300 voucher prize draw!NOW CLOSED

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MichelleMumsnet · 09/10/2015 15:51

SEAT have asked us to find out about the terrible things that Mumsnetters' DC have done to the family car.

Here's what SEAT say: "The new seven-seat SEAT Alhambra comes with everything you’d expect from a stylishly modern MPV. It comes with an abundance of space, technology, plus a powerful and sporty edge. The SEAT Alhambra features a wealth of new equipment and contemporary styling with over a dozen “Best MPV” awards since it was launched.
“Versatility remains a designed-in quality for the New Alhambra, packed with features to keep you comfortable, entertained and in control, it’s perfect for family adventures, no matter how long the journey.”
There's a £300 Love2Shop voucher to be won, so now's an excellent time to share: what are the most infuriating/alarming/astonishing things that your DC have done in or to your family vehicle?

Have sticky fingers smeared melted chocolate buttons across your pristine seats - or spilt a million tiny beads which are still turning up years later . Have you discovered unmentionables down the back of the seats - or been embarrassed by child-based detritus when giving a lift to a colleague?

Whatever it is, we'd love to hear it!

Everyone who posts on this thread will be entered into a prize draw to win a £300 Love2Shop voucher!

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Tell SEAT what the worst things your DC have done to your car - £300 voucher prize draw!NOW CLOSED
OP posts:
Bogeyface · 22/10/2015 01:02

As an aside, if anyone is interested I am launching a new modern art exhibit "McDonalds French Fries....A Study in Mould" in my car. Entrance is £20 per person and we are currently courting a Turner Prize nomination :o

embabes7 · 22/10/2015 05:31

Sudocrem - great for baby body care, not for interior of a car!!!! ARGH.

toptomatoes · 22/10/2015 07:33

We've had all the usual bodily fluids but spilt milk tends to be the gift that keeps on giving!

MaryDunlop99 · 22/10/2015 15:10

My little one tried to wipe off the Seagull droppings with a scrub - not the non-scratch ones!!!!

Zetetic · 22/10/2015 15:16

How about the worst things Seat have done to my car?

Er.... telling lies about emissions. Deliberately installing a "defeat device" which drastically reduces exhaust emissions while being tested.

Sending a recall letter.

FRAUD.

Soosieboo · 22/10/2015 16:29

After cleaning the seats of the car, hubby left the windows down to dry off the seats.
Oldest son and boy next door then had a water pistol fight ... firing water over and through the car. The insides got soaked!

Lulabellx1 · 22/10/2015 16:31

Puke in it, all down the back of my neck (whilst I was driving)

sootyo · 22/10/2015 16:44

DS scratched his name on the hatchback door! No idea why, and neither did he know when I asked him.

aussiegeckogirl · 22/10/2015 17:15

well it has to be the time when she he was sick, basically because the smell is so hard to get rid of, we could smell it for months and was glad when we sold it to be honest!

matphil · 22/10/2015 17:28

The first thing wasn't really my son's fault but my waters broke all over the car seat when I was on my way to hospital to have him. He's peed on my seats, been sick on them and tipped almost everything he has on them.
He's also put a lovely scratch and dent on one of the doors when he hit it with his scooter.

laurapotz · 22/10/2015 17:45

So far the worst I've had is half the beach in the back of the car and the contents of a fromage frais pouch up the seat. I hope it stays that way!

cluckyhen · 22/10/2015 17:57

My DS is an aspie....and in one particularly bad meltdown he flung open the door whilst it was moving and successfully ruined my door on a parked vehicle :(

PhilTB54 · 22/10/2015 18:38

Manky old bucket full of stinking slimey pond life from the local nature preserve sloping about in the footwell. The smell gave them away.

mumpetuk1 · 22/10/2015 18:52

Spilled a whole bottle of suntan cream on the seats and floor! Took ages for me to clean it up!

casspuss · 22/10/2015 19:45

He let the car door go the other day on a hill and it hit the pavement scraping the paintwork and bending the door!

topgunmatt · 22/10/2015 19:51

One day I noticed my car had taken on a rancid milk smell.
I tried to find it, all to no avail. Having cleaned the car completely I was unable to source the smell. So I gave up, and simply had to put up with a rancid milk smell every time I drove it.

A couple of months later I was working on the car and I had to get to one of the rear tail lights. Now these cars had a round shaped hole in each corner panel just in front of the lights for just this very purpose just big enough to get your hand into.

So I inserted my hand and it instantly came into contact with something squishy. AAAAAAAGGGGHH!! I withdrew my hand in surprise so quickly that I banged it against the side of the panel.

My hand was covered with something yellow and rancid.

Then the penny dropped. A few months earlier I had been shopping, and as I normally do, I bought in bulk. As I was packing the butter away I thought "that's funny - I thought I bought 12 blocks of butter - there are only 9 here..."
So as I drove home the shopping bags had fallen over and THREE blocks of butter had managed to slide through this hole that would have only just have been big enough for them. Murphy's Law.

Then I had to get the yellow, smelly goo out, and that's quite another story.

Kangakate · 22/10/2015 20:00

My DC spilt some milk during the summer and didn't tell me, we then went on holiday and when we got back the car stank and there were some maggots and flies, it took me ages to get rid of the smell and lots of dry retching!

ser01 · 22/10/2015 20:12

various things to various cars, one decided to throw up in the back but got it right into the seatbelt buckles, imposs to get out, another washed one with the green side of the sponge, two of them one at each back fdoor pulled the handles to open them as i unlocked it but it jammed them both firmly locked forever more and one thought it was a good idea to play in the van and took the handbrake off rolled down the road and hit a large curb, thank god no one was hurt. theres a load of other things but they i think were the worst so far.

sweir1 · 22/10/2015 20:13

Tore the leather seats in my bmw

Jenba590 · 22/10/2015 20:34

He threw up in the car after i picked him up from nursery when he was about 18 months old and it was like projectile vomit, all up the windows over himself managed to get me and the windscreen too. Ended up selling the car because even after having it valletted the smell wouldn't go. He also threw up in the nursery reception area all up the glass windows and carpet. I'd never been so traumatised in my life lol the people from nursery still mention sometimes when I see them

baconbap · 22/10/2015 20:59

vomiting over the back seats

Behooven · 22/10/2015 21:04

Mine emptied the contents of his sand pit into the boot. I was out and he was with a babysitter Hmmm he was about 3 at the time and they were all playing in the garden when I left. It must have taken ages, one wee bucket at a time.

I never trusted that sitter again

Woodruffshaz · 22/10/2015 21:11

My 7 year old had wanted to spend her birthday money, so we went into town and she treated herself to some crafty making bits and bobs...

Anyway on the way home she decided she wanted to open bits to have a closer look.... At the glitter pots!!! She had apparently opened all 4, balanced them on her lap to look at all the colours but when we turned a corner of course theyd gone flying causing a nice glittery mist.... A year on and whenever we give someone lifts they end up leaving all sparkly.... No matter how many times its been hoovered its still just shiny and sparkles everywhere LOL.

gillyweed · 22/10/2015 21:18

It wasn't my kids but my brother when we were younger... He asked to wash the folks car for a bit of extra pocket money, all quite standard, they agreed and left him to it. He got all set up in the driveway and began, our neighbour on his way out looked over to see my brother 'washing' the car, with a green scouring pad, needless to say they didn't grass him up, the paintwork said it all!

Gill81uk · 22/10/2015 21:22

We have a sun roof that opens and closes. They had a phase of begging me to open it and then close it again. One day I did it and then there was a horrible grinding noise. In his wisdom, DS had grabbed it to stop it closing! I refuse to open it for them now.....