How to clean undercarriage after hitting deer.

[ARCOgraphite]

How do you get the "biohazard" off your drive way? Hose, soap and push broom out to the street drain?
Actually, this is a pretty gross job and you have a strong stomach to attempt this cleanup. I would have taken it to the Dealer or a local garage and asked them to clean it up on the lift - only if they were willing to do so.

If that fails, call Mike Rowe

 

[RooflessVW]

How do you get the "biohazard" off your drive way? Hose, soap and push broom out to the street drain?
Actually, this is a pretty gross job and you have a strong stomach to attempt this cleanup. I would have taken it to the Dealer or a local garage and asked them to clean it up on the lift - only if they were willing to do so.

If that fails, call Mike Rowe

Man you have no idea

 

[Krieg]

At least she didn't hit a alligator!

 

[gregk24]

this or alkaline foam.
see rotary adapter for cleaning tile floors....flip upside, it will spin
some carwash yt dude presented that

i am surprised that you had the deer under the car..
colleague had such incident where he hit it with front glass and a-pillar hard. old car was totaled.

Yes, the deer was already dead. There was a car in front of her that swerved at the last second and she was unable to get over due to a car being next to her. So she lined up the best she could and let it pass under the car. It did hit the front lip but didn't damage it thankfully. The deer must have been JUST small enough.

 

[Yo_its_yvonne]

Wife ran over a dead deer last night. There is blood and hair ALL over the undercarriage of her Jetta. In every nook and cranny. Best product to clean up? Don’t want to use something corrosive or that will remove the factory body wax.

I just came across this thread with the same question. Only I somehow decapitated the deer with my Passat and the head was lodged up in my undercarriage. That was one issue. And now the blood and guts. Gross.

 

[GON]

Hit a deer in my 1980 El Camino on or about Christmas Eve 1985. Deer hit the bumper and then under the vehicle.

I still have that El Camino, and there is still bone and hair from that deer stuck in front bumper.

 

[KrisZ]

Hydrogen peroxide in a garden sprayer.

Then rinse rinse rinse.

I've cleaned a lot of blood.

I like the hydrogen peroxide idea.

 

[GON]

At least she didn't hit a alligator!

As a knuckle head 17 year in South Florida a buddy and I pulled a dead alligator out of a canal.

Not only did that did gator smell beyond belief, but the dead gator smell permiated my hands. My hands smelled just awful for quite a few days. Could not get that rancid dead gator smell off my hands no matter what I did.

 

[MrGraybeard]

I'd be more concerned about damage to the oil and trans pan, along with any exposed hoses and lines.

As well as the cat. An impact can fracture the matrix inside.

 

[Yo_its_yvonne]

As well as the cat. An impact can fracture the matrix inside.

Under my car it appears everything important is protected with some sort of metal sheet? One was dented a bit, but do you think those metal sheets are good protection? Luckily it didn’t have antlers!

 

[Yo_its_yvonne]

I like the hydrogen peroxide idea.

I ran through an HEB car wash once for the underbody rinse, got home and it didn’t do a thing. So I went to Mister for a more expensive car wash and better underbody rinse, still not any better. Then I went to a self car wash and power washed the underbody, then soap brush scrubbed it, and another power wash. $3 was better than my $26 car wash lol. It worked. Even got more deer meat out from somewhere.

 

[MrGraybeard]

Under my car it appears everything important is protected with some sort of metal sheet? One was dented a bit, but do you think those metal sheets are good protection? Luckily it didn’t have antlers!

If there's significant damage you'll find out soon enough, mostly through loss of power. My experience was that the deterioration was not enough to put you on the side of the road. It's just something to be aware of, chances are the plate blocked direct impact.