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  1. REMIX

    REMIX Two Time F1 World Champ

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    #1 REMIX, Jan 9, 2006
    No kidding!

    I have a practically new 05 Acura TL and I noticed something was wrong the other day when I got a check engine light. I'm thinking, "hmmm...that's weird, the car's only a few months old." Drove fine, though.

    So I eventually get around to taking this thing to Acura and, wouldn't you know it, there's a nest in my engine. Whatever it was ate some wiring that ran to the knock sensor. Looks like around $600 to fix but they're doing it gratis.

    I'd heard of these kinds of things in aviation where a bird would build a nest inside an airplane cowl, but never in a car like that. What's more is I usually park in my garage but the purchase of a new washer and dryer had the old ones in my spot so I parked outside for a few nights.

    RMX
     
  2. Trevor L

    Trevor L Formula Junior

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    #2 Trevor L, Jan 9, 2006
    didnt ur mommy tell u to keep ur nuts out of the lube. ;)
     
  3. PassionIsFerrari

    PassionIsFerrari Formula 3

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    #3 PassionIsFerrari, Jan 9, 2006
    a squirrel ate a hole through a THICK, THICK plastic trashcan of mine.... It was unbelievable.
     
  4. WJHMH

    WJHMH Two Time F1 World Champ
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    #4 WJHMH, Jan 10, 2006
    Just rats that live in trees & everything else. Whenever I'm out for a drive & I see them run out in front of me, I don't stop. I take aim.
     
  5. Dan Ciezniewzky

    Dan Ciezniewzky Formula 3
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    #5 Dan Ciezniewzky, Jan 10, 2006
    grab em by the tail and throw him into a pile of burning leaves :D
     
  6. Robin

    Robin F1 Rookie

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    #6 Robin, Jan 10, 2006
    I had mice eat through the spark plug wires in a car I had 12 years ago. That kinda sucked...

    -R
     
  7. jimwalking

    jimwalking Formula Junior

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    #7 jimwalking, Jan 10, 2006
    I've heard of spark plug wires being eaten numerous times, never the harness.
     
  8. wax

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    #8 wax, Jan 10, 2006
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  9. justhrowit

    justhrowit Formula 3

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    #9 justhrowit, Jan 10, 2006

    HAHA...I can see it!

    J
     
  10. GrigioGuy

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    #10 GrigioGuy, Jan 10, 2006
    I had one chew through the heater hose in my 328. I was headed to a car show, pulled out of the garage and there was a puddle of coolant. Grumble.
     
  11. Erich

    Erich Formula 3

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    #11 Erich, Jan 10, 2006
    My neighbor had rats chew holes in the radiator hoses of both cars inside his garage. They also at the hoses to his washing machine.

    Nasty buggers.
     
  12. MikeAR303

    MikeAR303 Formula 3

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    #12 MikeAR303, Jan 10, 2006
    I spent about a week last spring trying to figure out why the alarm on my Elise was going off randomly, while parked in the garage. One of the times it went off, I went outside and saw a mouse sitting right outside of the engine compartment. As soon as it saw me, it took off into the engine compartment.

    I decided to take the car out for a drive to try to scare him (or shake him) out. I took it up to about 80-90 and stood on the brakes about 10 times in between various high-G cornering maneuvers in empty parking lots and on empty backroads. After about a half hour of this, I figured he had to have been gone (or dead), so I brought the car back home and parked it back in the garage.

    Sure enough, about an hour later I woke up to the alarm going off... again.

    I tried the same thing a few more times over the next couple days... with the same results.

    Eventually I set up a no-kill trap and caught him.
     
  13. Kds

    Kds F1 World Champ

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    #13 Kds, Jan 10, 2006
    Seen it a lot......it's mice usually nesting inside the airbox of the sports car parked for the winter........we had a no start in a dealership I used to work at a couple of years ago......it was filled with sunflower seeds and mice droppings......LOL !!!
     
  14. Erich

    Erich Formula 3

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    #14 Erich, Jan 10, 2006
    For a while my project 69 Mustang Mach1 was parked on the side of the house, underneath a car cover.
    One day I wanted to show the engine compartment to a friend.

    As I raised the hood I was confronted by an angry mama possum baring its' teeth at me from space between the air cleaner and the inner fender.
    There was a nice nest filled with 4 baby possums and mama too!!!

    I just lowered the hood and went away. A couple of weeks later the nest was empty, so I tore it out. They never came back.

    Erich
     
  15. FastLapp

    FastLapp F1 Rookie

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    #15 FastLapp, Jan 10, 2006
    Buy a nice BB gun from wallmart, stake them out, and blast away. I killed 30 squirrels(one for every day) in one month. And they kept coming back, didnt know that many (+the others I've killed) existed in a five-mile radius.
     

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