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Barn find!

 

Not really, but there is an animal lesson here. See the yellow dog food bag? NEVER store

pet food in the same space as your 2002!

 

I started cleaning up my wiring harness under the hood this past winter and was looking closely where

the big bundle goes into the hole under the fuse block. At first I thought it was some sort of spider

egg pods or bee combs... but then to my horror... I realized it was nuggets of my dogs food from that bag.

 

A f'ing mouse had collected dinner and stored them in the hole. As the pit in my stomach grew, I prayed to every god ever worshiped that he only ate food and not wires.... this weekend I am going to connect up the battery and see. Visually, all looked OK.

 

I surgically removed the nuggets with a long-nose pliers and put glue traps all over the place ... and moved the food inside.

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See the whole restoration at:

http://www.rwwbmw2002.shutterfly.com

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Barn find!

 

Not really, but there is an animal lesson here. See the yellow dog food bag? NEVER store

pet food in the same space as your 2002!

 

I started cleaning up my wiring harness under the hood this past winter and was looking closely where

the big bundle goes into the hole under the fuse block. At first I thought it was some sort of spider

egg pods or bee combs... but then to my horror... I realized it was nuggets of my dogs food from that bag.

 

A f'ing mouse had collected dinner and stored them in the hole. As the pit in my stomach grew, I prayed to every god ever worshiped that he only ate food and not wires.... this weekend I am going to connect up the battery and see. Visually, all looked OK.

 

I surgically removed the nuggets with a long-nose pliers and put glue traps all over the place ... and moved the food inside.

You got off lucky. In the early '80s I was rebuilding my motor in the garage and a mouse packed both frame rails with kibble. Long story short, body off restoration.
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