Friday before Christmas I ran over a deer carcass, busted up my intercooler and drove home with it's hind quarter snagged on a exhaust hanger. I've since removed the deer parts but there's lots of blood, fatty tissue and skin addorning the bottom side of my car.

Since I have the front-end up on jacks for the repair work I am doing I want to clean under the car. I haven't even attempted to start yet but I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for taking this stuff off?

This is the oil pan but the rest of it looks similiar:

 

got a pressure washer?

 

I have access to one... However, I don't really want to use one in my garage.

 

simple green. lots and lots of rags.

 

The same thing happened to me. I took it to one of those do-it-yourself coin operated car washes and pressure washed it over and over and over again. The hot water combined with soap really did an excellent job cleaning everything off. I still smelled a little cooking meat for a week or so afterwards, but it was significantly less than before I cleaned it. Once your car is fixed enough to drive, it might be something to consider. The most difficult part for me to clean was above the gas tank... a bunch of deer parts got crammed up there and froze in place.

 

Go to a Chevron automatic car wash (touchless). They have undercarrage blasters, assuming your car is fixed and can drive to one.

 

god i hope i never hit a deer. that seems like such a pain in the ass to clean.

wire brushes, pressure washers, iron skillets....

 

Actually, I did this as the car was still driveable. It took some of the larger chunks off but didn't do a good job of cleaning in the middle of the car, where the majority of the blood and bits are...

Maybe I'll waiting until it's running well enough again to take it to an self service wash.

My girlfriend suggested a peroxide and water mix in a spray bottle. I can see that better for sterilizing it after I get all the meat and dried gravy off first though.

 

This was my suggestion. Oh, And some latex gloves

 

If it was summer the bugs and birds would handle it for you.

 

ewww...hope you got all of that off of there...I would just pressure wash it as best as I could..good luck

 

stalker!

 

I cleaned everything up. I used Tuff Stuff to clean the bulk of the chunky parts up with a sponge. Then I hit it with a water-hydrogen peroxide mix to get the gravy parts up. In the end it came out really good.