jimmymack
Active Member
a little story for you all...
A few days ago, it was raining and my wife and I dashed from the house to the car and jumped in, I started up the car and there was a dull thump from the engine as it started to turn over. we both looked at each other but as the car reversed out with no probelms and drove OK from then on I discounted it as nothing to worry about.
Last night I went to re-fill the screen wash, and in the torch light found what I thought was a bunch of bird feathers between the engine and the radiator fan, caught up around a pipe which lays on the under tray.
When I pulled it out it turned out to be black fur !!!
There was more in the alternator and around one of the other pulleys.
With baited breath I panned the torch around both sides of the engine and as far under as I could shine it quite expecting to find the owner lodged somewhere but nothing.
I guess from the fur that it was a cat, probably one of the many wild cats which live in the fields around us and that probably it had found a nice warm palce to curl up... I'm not a real sentimental person but even I could only imagine the moment the car struck up, and the only way out from there is past the drive belts !!!!
A few days ago, it was raining and my wife and I dashed from the house to the car and jumped in, I started up the car and there was a dull thump from the engine as it started to turn over. we both looked at each other but as the car reversed out with no probelms and drove OK from then on I discounted it as nothing to worry about.
Last night I went to re-fill the screen wash, and in the torch light found what I thought was a bunch of bird feathers between the engine and the radiator fan, caught up around a pipe which lays on the under tray.
When I pulled it out it turned out to be black fur !!!
There was more in the alternator and around one of the other pulleys.
With baited breath I panned the torch around both sides of the engine and as far under as I could shine it quite expecting to find the owner lodged somewhere but nothing.
I guess from the fur that it was a cat, probably one of the many wild cats which live in the fields around us and that probably it had found a nice warm palce to curl up... I'm not a real sentimental person but even I could only imagine the moment the car struck up, and the only way out from there is past the drive belts !!!!
