My cars been eaten!
My cars been eaten!
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peterr96

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2,226 posts

204 months

Sunday 5th August 2012
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Fortunately NOT the Aston.

Our Alfa has been parked outside the house in the same spot for the last two years.
Came home last Friday evening to find a front mud flap lying in the drive next to the car. confused

Closer inspection reveals the other side mudflap also partially detached, the little aerio flaps in front on the wheels pulled off, including damage to the wheel arch liners and the big give away teeth marks all along the front "splitter".


WTF??


The car has been eaten by dogs.
And we don't own any!

It just goes to show that no matter how precious and fastidious you can be about your car there is always something waiting to trip you up.
Anyone got any more bizarre car damage stories to cheer me up?

mad4amanda

2,410 posts

193 months

Sunday 5th August 2012
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we had screenwash bottle lid on a synergie half eaten by squirrels in the new forest

mikey k

13,074 posts

245 months

Sunday 5th August 2012
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Could be worse
A friend had his P&J attacked by a peacock defending its territory from its own reflection laugh
It needed a complete respray frown
Could yours have been foxes?

peterr96

Original Poster:

2,226 posts

204 months

Sunday 5th August 2012
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mikey k said:
Could be worse
A friend had his P&J attacked by a peacock defending its territory from its own reflection laugh
It needed a complete respray frown
Could yours have been foxes?
I don't think that foxes have the jaw strength to crush the splitter quite like this

Don't think we've got peacocks in the garden.... thank god!
Needless to say, Colditz style defences will be incorporated over the coming months to deter the smaller mammals.
Then we'll just have to worry about giraffes and elephants.

Jockman

18,410 posts

189 months

Sunday 5th August 2012
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Yeah Pete....My brother left his keys in his BMW whilst getting a paper from his corner shop in Cheshire in May.....next time we see it 2 months later and it has shrunk to half it's size with puddles inside !!!

The following week we came into work and the van exhaust was lying on the floor underneath it - with the nuts neatly piled up - minus the catalytic converter.

This was 2 weeks prior to the Great Flood and Great Fire (Mikey had a good laugh at the damage last week !!).

You sure somebody hasn't been after something underneath the car ?? smile

peterr96

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2,226 posts

204 months

Sunday 5th August 2012
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Jockman said:
You sure somebody hasn't been after something underneath the car ?? smile
I don't drive when drunk and otherwise I'm sure I'd have remembered running them down.

peterr96

Original Poster:

2,226 posts

204 months

Sunday 5th August 2012
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mad4amanda said:
we had screenwash bottle lid on a synergie half eaten by squirrels in the new forest
confused
I thought squirrels liked nuts not frogs

I did have to google what a synergie was

F1 NDW

1,116 posts

175 months

Sunday 5th August 2012
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Jockman said:
Yeah Pete....My brother left his keys in his BMW whilst getting a paper from his corner shop in Cheshire in May.....next time we see it 2 months later and it has shrunk to half it's size with puddles inside !!!

The following week we came into work and the van exhaust was lying on the floor underneath it - with the nuts neatly piled up - minus the catalytic converter.

This was 2 weeks prior to the Great Flood and Great Fire (Mikey had a good laugh at the damage last week !!).

You sure somebody hasn't been after something underneath the car ?? smile
Phil you had better rig up an electric fence around yours. Lots of foxes around our way, my security lights are on and off all night, and yes I have looked out of the window and seen foxes, not scousers!

Jockman

18,410 posts

189 months

Sunday 5th August 2012
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F1 NDW said:
Phil you had better rig up an electric fence around yours. Lots of foxes around our way, my security lights are on and off all night, and yes I have looked out of the window and seen foxes, not scousers!
Correct, my neighbour.

Alan, next door to me, has a family of urban foxes living at the bottom of his garden - completely harmless to the cat etc but not sure about the chicken the Romanian guy has started keeping next-but-one to you rolleyes

F1 NDW

1,116 posts

175 months

Sunday 5th August 2012
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peterr96 said:
I don't think that foxes have the jaw strength to crush the splitter quite like this
Badger?

AdamV12V

5,314 posts

206 months

Sunday 5th August 2012
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Nasty - I think you need a nice coat of arsenic varnish on that to put off any future repeat incidents!

George H

14,714 posts

193 months

Sunday 5th August 2012
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F1 NDW said:
Phil you had better rig up an electric fence around yours. Lots of foxes around our way, my security lights are on and off all night, and yes I have looked out of the window and seen foxes, not scousers!
A rifle is a lot more effective than an electric fence smile

ds2000

2,755 posts

221 months

Monday 6th August 2012
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mikey k said:
Could be worse
A friend had his P&J attacked by a peacock defending its territory from its own reflection laugh
It needed a complete respray frown
Could yours have been foxes?
^ This!

My parents neighbours have a peacock and he absolutely hates their blue car! We have to shoo him off the drive way if they want to use it as he waits by the garage door some days as he know where his nemesis sleeps. (It is a megane so for me I should lock him in there).

He came over the fence making one hell of a noise last year and our neighbours bouncy lab pup came around the corner with a mouthful of feathers as he'd been having a stand off with their mini. He is the local asbo! I should get a camera set up on him smile

Anyway back on topic..... bloody dogs!