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09-13-2022, 07:21 AM #4001Registered User
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Opened Subaru the other day and a marmot was sitting on top of the engine. It chirped and dove back into the engine compartment. Haha, little guy was living inside the car and wouldn't leave.
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09-13-2022, 07:23 AM #4002
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09-13-2022, 11:51 AM #4003Registered User
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Sell the car now, before the bastard chews through an expensive wiring harness that you can't reach without disassembly of most of the engine.
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09-13-2022, 12:43 PM #4004"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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09-13-2022, 01:01 PM #4005Registered User
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Wasn’t mine but the owner insisted that a friend told them that marmots don’t eat wiring. Whatever, there was piss and shit all over the inside. They got rid of it with some stinky garlic spray stuff.
Personally I would have traded it in STAT.
I had a friend who had a marmot chew through his clutch cable and had to drive out of the Sangre de Christos in second gear. People put chicken wire around their vehicles at the trailhead for that reason.
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09-13-2022, 01:03 PM #4006I still call it The Jake.
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09-13-2022, 01:16 PM #4007
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09-13-2022, 01:35 PM #4008
Maroon paint with gray cloth.
Automatic transmission.
Really nice driver.
Make it yours.
Outbacks are great vehicles.
Tires have plenty of tread.
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09-13-2022, 01:41 PM #4009
One thing is for sure, Name Redacted's friend needs to ditch the Suby, and marmot, ASAP.
My sister had a mere squirrel hole up in her 4Runner while she left home it one winter. That little fucker had chewed anything that was remotely important, shit and pissed all over the place and turned the cabin air filter (and later the glove box behind it) into it's own love shack.I still call it The Jake.
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09-13-2022, 03:49 PM #4010
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09-13-2022, 04:56 PM #4011Registered User
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09-13-2022, 04:58 PM #4012
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09-13-2022, 06:41 PM #4013Registered User
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Could be worse. Our neighbour started his car one morning and ended up with pack rat guts all over the engine compartment.
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09-13-2022, 06:51 PM #4014
Yup. Both me and friends have had to deal with a packrat nest in the engine compartment in a vehicle parked for more than a week in packrat country. Usually in the air intake. Why is my truck driving like shit and mileage abysmal? Oh, there’s a nest with pink little packrat babies where the air filter usually is. And the shit and piss smell never completely goes away if they get anywhere near the cab air intake.
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09-14-2022, 12:09 AM #4015Registered User
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I had gremlins in our old Durango from critters chewing on ground wires. The biggest mess I've ever had under the hood was when a cat crawled in to stay warm in the winter. When I started it in the morning there was a weird scratchy noise for a second before I turned the key and then a blood curdling scream as it got wrapped in the serpentine belt and shredded. Yuck...
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09-14-2022, 07:01 AM #4016
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09-14-2022, 07:43 AM #4017Registered User
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The AC system dries the air the same as if it was coming out of the dash and floor vents but it's coming out of the vents below the windshield. Someone will probably correct me but, I can't think of any cars in the last 20 years that don't automatically kick the compressor on when you turn on the defrost mode (if they have AC).
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09-14-2022, 08:32 AM #4018Registered User
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I think what hes saying is that defrosting involves pulling in dry winter air, which does not necessitate a fully functioning a/c.
Thunderstorms mid-summer while driving will almost always require the air to be dried via the a/c.
You guys are yelling past each other.
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09-14-2022, 08:39 AM #4019
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09-14-2022, 08:42 AM #4020
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09-14-2022, 08:50 AM #4021
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09-14-2022, 01:36 PM #4025Registered User
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It rains as much, or more, where we live and the air is equally as swampy, or worse, than 75% of the country. Cars with no AC that just move the outside air are more effective at defogging than one with a malfunctioning AC system.
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