It's not just the two rat you have to look out for....
Discussion
http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/qantas-sued-ove...
If you ever needed an excuse to take your Aston out!
If you ever needed an excuse to take your Aston out!
Pinning it on Quantas seems like the easy option; it could have happened anywhere and more likely at home.
I had a 911 with exactly the same issue although probably down to mice rather than rats. Porsche told me they see a lot of this sort if damage on occasionally used and pampered 'garaged' cars, driven only at weekends and holidays. Classic on Boxsters....
Rodents, I was told, find the warmth of engine great (although not so great at full chat on the road and operating temperature I suspect), and make their nests on the engine which stays nicely warm for much longer than we might appreciate, particularly when in a garage. It cost me a new engine wiring loom on my Carrera and a new MAF. I pulled a complete nest out of a '71 911 I restored and a good few handfuls of err...nut shells from the air box. I keep my eye out in my garaged cars now. A cat, or mouse trap is a great garage accessory!
Clearly 1. Rats have great taste in cars 2. Astons taste delicious 3. Australia is more awash with rats than the uk?
I had a 911 with exactly the same issue although probably down to mice rather than rats. Porsche told me they see a lot of this sort if damage on occasionally used and pampered 'garaged' cars, driven only at weekends and holidays. Classic on Boxsters....
Rodents, I was told, find the warmth of engine great (although not so great at full chat on the road and operating temperature I suspect), and make their nests on the engine which stays nicely warm for much longer than we might appreciate, particularly when in a garage. It cost me a new engine wiring loom on my Carrera and a new MAF. I pulled a complete nest out of a '71 911 I restored and a good few handfuls of err...nut shells from the air box. I keep my eye out in my garaged cars now. A cat, or mouse trap is a great garage accessory!
Clearly 1. Rats have great taste in cars 2. Astons taste delicious 3. Australia is more awash with rats than the uk?
TBH, I did not know this was a problem. I have a car in storage and I check on it about every month. Should I turn the heating in the garage off, make it nice and cold?
I think I'm being clever by keeping the garage nice and warm, but am I providing a nice warm home to our furry fiends ....?
Advice please ...........
I think I'm being clever by keeping the garage nice and warm, but am I providing a nice warm home to our furry fiends ....?
Advice please ...........
Hello Luna,
Thats not the problem, I have had the car in storage for about 2 years, thinking I'm clever, i opened the windows, put a fabric (internal) cover on the car, and the garage was unheated with obvious gaps in the garage doors which gave a soort of a draft / change of air. Bril I think, this will keep the car dry.
All I ended up with was a load, and I mean a lot, of green mould all over the seat belt webbing and the leather seats. It took me ages to get it all off, had to treat the seats etc, sooooo, I put the heating on in the garage, this kept it relatively warm.
Heating on or off .............. ?
Should I put a rat trap in the garage, or check on the car more often, and perhaps take the thing out for a run every now and then, I only did 200 miles in it last year.
Thats not the problem, I have had the car in storage for about 2 years, thinking I'm clever, i opened the windows, put a fabric (internal) cover on the car, and the garage was unheated with obvious gaps in the garage doors which gave a soort of a draft / change of air. Bril I think, this will keep the car dry.
All I ended up with was a load, and I mean a lot, of green mould all over the seat belt webbing and the leather seats. It took me ages to get it all off, had to treat the seats etc, sooooo, I put the heating on in the garage, this kept it relatively warm.
Heating on or off .............. ?
Should I put a rat trap in the garage, or check on the car more often, and perhaps take the thing out for a run every now and then, I only did 200 miles in it last year.
Hard to advise really... Green mould means damp.... Construction materials of the garage will play a big part...
I had a garage with a concrete walls and a corrugated asbestos sheet roof..... Didn't matter what I did, it was condensation city...tools left on the bench would rust overnight
My current place has block built walls, and a tiled apex roof..... Dry as a bone
Type of heating will play its part, oil storage heaters should produce much less condensation than say a gas....
Thinking outside the box...... Get a cat
I had a garage with a concrete walls and a corrugated asbestos sheet roof..... Didn't matter what I did, it was condensation city...tools left on the bench would rust overnight
My current place has block built walls, and a tiled apex roof..... Dry as a bone
Type of heating will play its part, oil storage heaters should produce much less condensation than say a gas....
Thinking outside the box...... Get a cat
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