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Nigel Tracey
 


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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 Surprised

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 Whistle 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 Rolling with laughter
 Mrs Jones ? We've come for your Liver  
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Hairy Dan
 


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Rolling with laughter Quite a story ,
Hairy quite a emoticons , not seen that one Rolling with laughter
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Gareth
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Perhaps you should read this:

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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 Laughing

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  
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Nigel Tracey
 


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Gareth wrote:
Perhaps you should read this:

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Rolling with laughter

That's perfect !!! Gareth fancy a BBQ on Saturday in Marple ?
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Gareth
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Hmmm Marple is quite close, only if they do spit roasted ferret Laughing Wink
  
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Does your other half like a spit roast Gareth? Whistle Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter

Sorry...schoolboy humour
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Only in my dreams Steve Whistle
  
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Thumbs Up Rolling with laughter
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