[and i'd thought i'd seen it all!(sorta long)]

[mkii_84@yahoo.com (Andrew Wong)]

Thats scary that there was a micee living in the
timming belt cover.  In my Scirocco b/c I live in
Florida, sometimes insects and reptiles/amphibians
like my Scirocco.  Back in the summer there was a wasp
nest inside the bumper.  I would hear it buzz, but
Haven't in a while.  I had a frog living near the
hatch area where the drain tube is.  And I think there
are lizard near the engine  
--- Cathy Boyko <losinit@usa.net> wrote:
> "The Hitman" <vwscir88@hotmail.com> wrote:
> my friend calls me up tonight and said that when he
> went to start his rocco 
> (which has been hibernating for the last couple of
> months) that it fired up 
> then made this horrible metal hitting metal sound
> then died. i told him to 
> check to see if the timing belt broke and to call me
> back. when he called me 
> back he said he couldn't get the timing belt cover
> off, but it looked like 
> the car was bleeding from the belt cover. when i
> asked him what he meant by 
> bleeding he said there was a small amount of red
> liquid coming from the side 
> and bottom of the timing belt cover. not being able
> to think what red liquid 
> could be coming from this area, i left work to check
> it out. turns out a 
> family of what appears to have been mice had somehow
> gotten under his timing 
> cover and made a nest. when he started his rocco,
> mice and nest got spun 
> around and ended up jamming the timing belt (and
> making quite a mess) in the 
> lower half of the cover! good news is he got rid of
> his little mice problem, 
> bad news is that it will probably have turned out to
> be an expensive way to 
> kill a family of rodents!
>   hit
> 
> 
> 
> So Sayeth The Hitman
> '88 "stripe" 16v scirocco
> '91 passat gl "the green hell"
> <http://www.techography.net:82/brettsgarage>
> 
> 
> 
> I guess we add this to the winter preparation
> protocol: 
> Remove TB covers, get cat.
> 
> That does take the cake, although somebody had a
> groundhog or something in his
> shift linkage at one point if memory serves, the car
> was shifting on its own.
> And I thought my car was possessed. (although I did
> have one of the little the
> varmints run over my feet last time I started the
> '80)
> 
> Cathy
> 
> 
> 
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=====
-Andrew Wong 
1984 Black Scirocco
1987 White Quantum wagon

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