A story to make you smile...
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A story to make you smile...
So, because of financial strains my FD is sitting in my garage (since I can't pay for the insurance) and has been in there for about 3 months now. We all know how important it is to let FD's breathe and considering it had not moved in about 3 months I was quite skeptical to turn it on. But it had to be done! I back it out of the garage and open the hood to check the oil and make sure everything looks ok. I start hearing this 'squeak squeak' and I'm thinking...belts? loose hose??....Then out of nowhere!! this MOUSE literaly jumps out of my engine, gets caught in one of the belts and goes *PFFFFFFTTTT* everywhere!! I go and turn the car off and get a flashlight and I found 8 cute little mice in their nest near my battery. *sigh*.... that should teach me to keep my FD imprisoned like that. 
(not to mention I had to clean mama mouse off my intake manifold..eeewwww)
(not to mention I had to clean mama mouse off my intake manifold..eeewwww)
Dayyyyumn...that's nasty. I've heard of ppl saying you can get mice living in your car, but I never really believed it! Where is your car parked, may I ask? Cuz I'm trying to figure out under what conditions the mice managed to get to your car... (plz don't tell me it's parked in a indoor garage...)
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Well, yes it was in my indoor garage with my Murano (Nissan). And there is sooo much crap in the garage I wouldn't be surprised if I found more. I'm not too sure how they got in but we live in an old house....mice have their ways. The baby mice are in my old fish tank with a little heater and some food. I have a friend who wants me to give them to him because he has snake...but HELL NO I ain't doing that. I do know someone at work though who loves mice and she'll probably adopt them...
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found one in an intake in a TII.
found a dead mouse in my hard intake pipe while it was in the "parts" pile.
I had a co2 BB gun and would shoot them as they ran through rotor housings/intakes/alts and what not in the parts pile........... I had music bump'n (floor shaking) and everything........they got use to it i guess........
I hit one and it jumped up about 1.5 feet and squeeked REALLY loud then ran away. Prolly the one that died in my intake
found a dead mouse in my hard intake pipe while it was in the "parts" pile.
I had a co2 BB gun and would shoot them as they ran through rotor housings/intakes/alts and what not in the parts pile........... I had music bump'n (floor shaking) and everything........they got use to it i guess........
I hit one and it jumped up about 1.5 feet and squeeked REALLY loud then ran away. Prolly the one that died in my intake
Originally Posted by tobecontinued
i found a cat (still alive) under the intake in my old 240sx, good thing i was popping the hood to check something before i left.
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once i heard a strange sound coming from the garage so i went to go see what was making that sound then i look at my car and find a horse pretend driving behind the wheel here is the picture to back up my true story
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the only real thing like that to ever happen to me was when the rx-7 was sitting in the street for about 3 weeks with the car cover one day i open the car to start working on it and noticed a bunch of hair all over the inside of the car i turned out to be that a cat family was living in the car and they got in through the tranny shifter hole at the time the car had no interior and engine and tranny.
Back in the day i had a gsr integra and i left it in my friends uncles body shop. The i get the car and im driving around and i thought i smelt antifreeze but it was nastier lol. NO leaks though and me and my friend where driving next to eachother and he told me it was his car so i think nothing of it. Then later that night i smoke a blunt in the car with my friend and then i take off to go pick up this girl i usda see to smoke some more. So im just thinking the smell is the trez and maybe some antifreeze. The girl was like dam this car stinks while we where smoking but the smell was like a skunk so i told her the trez where skunk lol and she was like oh lol. But i knew something was wrong but didnt care. The next morning i look under the car cause i could never get a clean look and there was a smoked out rat on top of the underbelly pan. I meen this thing was huge. Mad gross lol i took it out and the smell went away.
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Got MICE ??
[sure everything looks ok. I start hearing this 'squeak squeak' and I'm thinking...belts? loose hose??....Then out of nowhere!! this MOUSE literaly jumps out of my engine, gets caught in one of the belts and goes *PFFFFFFTTTT* everywhere!!
Got MICE ?
Sorry I could not resist !
Got MICE ?
Sorry I could not resist !
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Got MICE ??
[sure everything looks ok. I start hearing this 'squeak squeak' and I'm thinking...belts? loose hose??....Then out of nowhere!! this MOUSE literaly jumps out of my engine, gets caught in one of the belts and goes *PFFFFFFTTTT* everywhere!!
Got MICE ?
Sorry I could not resist !
Got MICE ?
Sorry I could not resist !
Originally Posted by onefast3gen
Back in the day i had a gsr integra and i left it in my friends uncles body shop. The i get the car and im driving around and i thought i smelt antifreeze but it was nastier lol. NO leaks though and me and my friend where driving next to eachother and he told me it was his car so i think nothing of it. Then later that night i smoke a blunt in the car with my friend and then i take off to go pick up this girl i usda see to smoke some more. So im just thinking the smell is the trez and maybe some antifreeze. The girl was like dam this car stinks while we where smoking but the smell was like a skunk so i told her the trez where skunk lol and she was like oh lol. But i knew something was wrong but didnt care. The next morning i look under the car cause i could never get a clean look and there was a smoked out rat on top of the underbelly pan. I meen this thing was huge. Mad gross lol i took it
out and the smell went away.
out and the smell went away.
Translation:
My car was left unattended at my relative's body shop. I picked up my car and drove off with a friend. My car smelled bad, no reason could be found after checking coolant level, a friend was driving side by side with me and told me that the smell came from his car. I decided that the smell was something external and not related to the car. I inhaled copious amount of cannabis smoke in attempts to communicate with my friend on some deeper level, we talk and I decide to head off to reminisce with a girl I once shared bodily fluids with. Even though the smell was apparent before I ignited the cannabis and inhaled the smoke it produced, I thought that the smell could of stemmed from a mixture of the smell of anti-freeze and the cannabis smoke.
I met up with the girl I had once shared bodily fluids with and we proceeded to ignite more cannabis and inhale it's smoke. She mentioned to me that my car smelled like a Mephitis mephitis (the common skunk in lamen's terms). I replied by saying that the cannabis we were smoking belonged to a family of super-cannabis that was known for it's mind altering effects that far surpassed that of regular cannabis. I knew this would lead her to believe that I had purchased a higher quality cannabis than she was used to and it would be a very good after result. At this point I laughed out loud to myself, marvelling at my own genius. She replied in astonishment "Oh" then laughed out loud to herself so as not to look of lesser intelligence in front of me. In all reality I knew something was wrong with my car that was making it smell, but the pungent odor didn't bother me enough to warrant investigation until the following morning.
The next morning I decided I would find the source of my car's odoriferous nature. I craned my neck underneath the front end of my car to try to gain some sort of visual vantage point. It was at this time I was stunned to find that a very large mammalian vermin had become lodged in the underside of my vehicle. It looked to have been charred due to excessive heat and it was, as I said earlier very, very large compared to others that I had seen in textbooks. It was very disgusting and the thought of this caused me to laugh out loud. I went inside and got a plastic trashbag and wrapped my hand in it. I then reached up underneath the car and retrieved the charred remnants of my furry passenger and disposed of him in the nearest waste receptacle. After removing the source of the odor, the smell in my car went away.
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/\ Funny story. Did you swap more fluids with her after igniting cannabis?
Sounds like your relatives body shop took the car out without asking and picked up a passenger.
But anyways, my motor is down and I am getting ready to pull it. I hope the rats and mice stay out of mine. The project is not expected to be complete for a few months. This would make the install a bit more difficult if the rats had chewed though all my wiring. As I cross my fingers.
Sounds like your relatives body shop took the car out without asking and picked up a passenger.
But anyways, my motor is down and I am getting ready to pull it. I hope the rats and mice stay out of mine. The project is not expected to be complete for a few months. This would make the install a bit more difficult if the rats had chewed though all my wiring. As I cross my fingers.