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m3 vs. racooon....see all about it


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I, too, just unintentionally punched the clock on a racoon recently coming down Hwy 1, just south of Ft. Bragg with complete white out fog conditions at 3:30am. Nasty pea soup stuff at the fourteenth straight hour behind the wheel: "perfect, #$%*ing perfect...". I was grinding along in second gear, trying to keep my eyes open and focused on the ten feet of road I could see in front of me when, low and behold, a racoon appears through the fog motionless in front of me like it was beamed there.

Some times your only safe course of action is to cringe and bear it. At the speed I was going (15-20 tops)it was a slow motion event with every contact point the critter hit being easily identified as it passed under. "Oh he's hit the tranny now..isn't that a lovely sound..." Slow, dull, disturbing thuds. Somehow the air dam survived without a scratch or flex crack, I felt lucky, that is UNTIL: the following week while travelling at normal 02 speeds along another section of Hwy1 a blur of fur intercepted the peripheral of my high beams and within a milisecond had connected and blown the air dam out into a spider web of cracks and chunks...that Unidentified Furry Object left only a gob of flesh and hair samples for the crime lab to indentify...

Since both incidents, and the heightened awareness to the presence of our nocturnal friends they've instilled within me: I see eyes in everybush, behind every tree...waiting for me. Like track runners on starting blocks waiting to launch themselves in front of my car...it's a varmit conspiracy, I say.

I feel your pain, if only a fraction of your repair bills...

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Sorry, no pics, but rats are killers on the new cars. They eat all the insulation under the hood and all the rubberized sound dampening material as well. It's rumored that there is some compound in the that insulation that is like crack for rats. I saw a 535 yesterday that was so bad that the rats ate almost the entire shift knob and their nesting spot was the air box.

Most of this happens when cars sit for too long, but many people tape all kinds of interesting things like chewing tobacco under the hood to repel them. Dirty animals who can really screw up your newer car.

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broken side reflector, pushed in nose sheet metal--$1300 worth. Lesson learned: coyotes aren't wiley...this one just stood there while I tried to dodge him. I almost did, but not quite.

Mike

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