Member Since: 04 Nov 2006
Location: Lausanne
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D4 with Smelly engine
This isn't pleasant but worth a mention.
We get a lot of Pine Martins here, in fact we have a pair that live in our roof. They are very common and classed as vermin as they cause a lot of damage to cars by chewing on cables that are rubber coated, 2yrs back my neighbours Touran had around £400 worth of damage to accelerator and fuel cables. Till now we have escaped.....
This is where the car bites back !
Weds morning SWMBO started the car up, strange noise, some delay in the engine turning over but then all OK. As usual she forget to mention it...
Saturday I started to load the car for the trip back to the UK and noticed a strange decaying smell around the car, though it was a passing tractor and dismissed it. Kept getting the wafts and so eventually I popped the bonnet as this is where the smell seamed to be coming from. Yep you guessed it, one liquidized Pine Martin... Looks like he had gone to sleep some where inside and got a bit of a shock when he woke up
Now after getting over the smell I started to try and work out what to do as the animal itself is 100% stuck behind the radiator and fan. I checked for damage and all looks ok, in fact Kenwood should take a look at the D4 blender principal, it's quite effective...
After realizing that this was a pretty big job to strip down the front end of the car and we only had 2 hrs before we set off I decided to let nature take it's coarse OK 8hrs later on the channel tunnel I maybe regreted my decision, indeed I never though that BBQ/Decaying ferret would smell so bad.
Good news is that maggots have been spotted in the engine bay so fishing is on for tomorrow Mrs Jones ? We've come for your Liver
26th Jul 2011 12:29 pm
Hairy Dan
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Quite a story ,
Hairy quite a emoticons , not seen that one
Food for the journey2008 ,hse, it does what it says .
26th Jul 2011 3:08 pm
Gareth Site Moderator
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Perhaps you should read this:
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26th Jul 2011 3:30 pm
Nigel Tracey
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A few years back (ok more than a few...) I used to get called hugh fearnley-whittingstall by my friends as they knew that I have the habit of eating "wildlife", if this gets out I'll never live it down
I can confirm that it's pizza tonight as the Disco fried ferret is not quite ready yet.
It would be cool though to catch some fish with the maggots and somehow complete the cycle, River Goyt here I come.Mrs Jones ? We've come for your Liver
26th Jul 2011 3:41 pm
Nigel Tracey
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Gareth wrote:
Perhaps you should read this:
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That's perfect !!! Gareth fancy a BBQ on Saturday in Marple ?Mrs Jones ? We've come for your Liver
26th Jul 2011 3:42 pm
Gareth Site Moderator
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Hmmm Marple is quite close, only if they do spit roasted ferret
26th Jul 2011 4:58 pm
discocuzzy
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Does your other half like a spit roast Gareth?
Sorry...schoolboy humour"you cannot teach stupid people to do clever things"
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26th Jul 2011 5:01 pm
Gareth Site Moderator
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Only in my dreams Steve
26th Jul 2011 5:16 pm
discocuzzy
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OK 8hrs later on the channel tunnel I maybe regreted my decision, indeed I never though that BBQ/Decaying ferret would smell so bad.
