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    Apr 24, 2006 11:00:28 PM

    mcdelaug
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    Things your car inhales

    Yesterday I went for a long drive and got bug splatters all over the front of my car. SO today I have to clean it. Well, I noticed a leaf or two in the radiator intake. I decided to clean them both out. By the time I was done I had made a small pile of trash containing leaves, pieces of tree bark, a popsicle stick, two cigarette butts (I don't smoke, must be the Boxster) a newspaper ad and a bunch of small bits of debris. Finally I had to vacuum it to clean all that stuff out.

    Those of you that wash your own cars, this is one more thing you can obsess over.

    mcdelaug

    Apr 24, 2006 11:46:23 PM

    964C2
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    Re: Things your car inhales

    Very important....the debris build up can really reduce the efficiency of the radiators and the A/C....

    Apr 25, 2006 5:53:30 AM

    wtsnet
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    Re: Things your car inhales

    I agree!....Did you find any of these though?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/3723508.stm

    (It was fine BTW!)

    Apr 25, 2006 3:41:44 PM

    schmuy Offline
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    Re: Things your car inhales

    A friend of mine had a squirrel hiding dog food in his a/c vents...does that count?

    Apr 25, 2006 3:49:15 PM

    wangt1015
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    Re: Things your car inhales

    that's hilarious!

    Apr 25, 2006 5:03:02 PM

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    Re: Things your car inhales

    At least your cars don't inhale marijuana like mine

    Apr 25, 2006 6:20:53 PM

    tincanman99
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    A Family of Chipmunks Moved Into My Friends 911

    For a long time he used to tell me he would see things moving out of the corner of his eye in the back seat. He looked and never found anything.

    One day he opens the engine compartment before he went out. A chipmunk was standing there looking back at him. Needless to say he was like what the...than it ran.

    Than another one and another one...

    Took the car in and the service manager said this happens a lot. They love the warm engine compartment, particularly in the winter. He was very lucky they did not destroy anything but just brought in little pieces of paper to nest in.

    Apr 25, 2006 7:46:45 PM

    mcdelaug
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    Re: A Family of Chipmunks Moved Into My Friends 911

    Jeez I guess I should count myself lucky that all I found were some cigarette butts...

    mcdelaug

    Apr 25, 2006 8:09:13 PM

    fritz
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    Re: A Family of Chipmunks Moved Into My Friends 911

    Well, just as long as the don't start singing those songs!

    One of them was called Alvin, right?

    Apr 25, 2006 8:24:51 PM

    DamienL
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    Re: A Family of Chipmunks Moved Into My Friends 911

    Quote:
    fritz said:
    Well, just as long as the don't start singing those songs!

    One of them was called Alvin, right?



    lol
    Yeah, I think so.

     
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