OT: was Re: electrical problem

[vwscir88@hotmail.com (brett cooke)]

that seems to be a very common problem in cars that are only driven 
"part-time". nothing like driving down the road and getting the "whats that 
crawling up my leg?", and almost causing a major accident when finding out! 
my favorite though is when you start up your car and send a mouse and it's 
bedding shooting out off you tailpipe ant 100+mph. ever seen a "high speed 
mouse" hit a wall? not pretty.
  hit


>From: Cmr446@cs.com
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: OT: was Re: electrical problem
>Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 23:37:15 EDT
>
>  vwscir88@hotmail.com writes:
>
><< >
>  >You said that the car had been in the garage for 6 months so I'd 
>recommend
>  >that you look for evidence of some four legged friends and don't even 
>think
>  >they can't get inside and nest above the fuse box.
>  >  >>
>
>       Speaking of nasty little rodents from hell, in '96 I had the 
>pleasure
>of chasing field mice around the engine bay of a Ferrari 456. The owner had
>brought it in because it wouldn't start. The little monsters had crawled on
>top of the engine and under a cover. This covered the wiring harness that 
>ran
>to the fuel injectors and engine sensors and apparently thr mice thought 
>the
>insulation made great bedding material! They didn't want to give up their 
>new
>home easily as I and another tech  were having to flush them out from all
>sorts of places around the motor and grabbing them up with needle nose
>pliers. We also found where one mouse had chewed through a gromet on the
>firewall and made his way inside. Our guess was it didn't like Italian
>leather since none of the seats and trim had been chewed on, but we found a
>pile of foam from either a seat cushion or panel. We left a chunk of rat
>poison for him.
>   Less than a month later after the owner moved to California, a Ferrari
>dealership called us to ask us about the dead mice in the car...and the
>smell.
>
>Carl
>77rocco
>89fox
>
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