Posted on 03/03/2011 12:27:04 PM PST by Daffynition
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Mazda is recalling about 52,000 Mazda6 sedans, because yellow sac spiders like to build their nests in part of the fuel system.
"A certain type of spider may weave a web in the evaporative canister vent line and this may cause a restriction of the line," Mazda said in a letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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That’s just silly.
Stop production immediately! Destroy the cars after saving the spiders! Sue Mazda for damages! This is what happens when you allow “fuel systems” in the first place! Sue all car companies that allow “fuel systems”! Sue companies that make “fuel systems”! Sue individuals that own Mazdas and disturb the spiders by driving!
Outlaw spiders!
“When do we want it? Now!!!!!!!!”
I found this type of spider web that clogged the fuel transfer switch in a Cessna 182.
Oh what tangled webs we weave, when at first the Mazdas seize.........
This campaign demeans my spider people!
” because yellow sac spiders ..”
I sense a less than subtle jab at gay asian men here. If I were a PC liberal, that is.
Once had a Ford Aerostar van towed into my shop that would barely run. The owners went on vacation and upon their return found out their van wouldn`t stay running. No problems before they left. Scanning the computer showed a MAF ( mass air flow sensor ) sensor with a voltage reading way to low. Pulled the sensor , checked it, and it tested good. Put it back in vehicle but the reading was still the same. I figured there was a restriction in the tube where the MAF mounted. When I went to pull the air cleaner I noticed the lid was not properly seated, leaving a small gap. I didn`t think too much of it until I looked up the little tube for the MAF.... a small spider had made a nest, curled up and died right there in the tube, there was the restriction. Blew him out of there, and put everything back together. Van ran like a champ. I felt bad handing him the bill and explaining what caused the problem but I bet he makes sure he puts his air box lid on correctly ever time now.
Every Mazda in the USA should be parked in front of the driveway of a liberal, so that it blocks any vehicle from entering or leaving. Then it should be declared an endangered species habitat which cannot be disturbed.
That could suck. The fuel transfer switch on a Cessna is such a technologically complex piece of gear. :)
There’s a little spider native to SE Tennessee that likes to climb into pitot tubes on airplanes and clog them up. When the pitot tube gets clogged the airspeed indicator no longer works. Then, there are the dirt dobbers.....
I live in the mountains of SE Tennessee, really in the woods. My truck wouldn’t run one day and I could not for the life of me figure out what was wrong. I finally pulled the top off the air filter and it was packed full of acorns. Not sure if it was mice or a ground squirrel, but some critter thought they’d found a nice winter home. I vacuumed out all the acorns and the truck ran like a champ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgenair_Flight_301
When that 757 tried to take off from the Dominican Republic at night, the captain’s airspeed indicator went crazy and fed wrong info to the autopilot; in the end, the crew mishandled the situation, stalled the airplane and spun it into the Caribbean killing 189 people.
They never completely established what blocked the pitot tube for the captain’s instrumentation, but they think that mud dauber wasps built a nest and blocked the tube. It was the most plausible explanation, given the plane sat almost a month on the ground in the DR with no covers on the tubes.
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A friend of mine who is an airplane mechanic told me about a Cessna 210 that crashed some time back at a nearby airport because the rudder cables rusted through. Mice had gotten into the fuselage, built a next on top of the cables and their urine caused the cables to rust through. Apparently, the pilot didn’t catch it and neither did their mechanic. Unfortunately, the pilot didn’t find out about it until one of them broke in flight. It crashed and killed 4 people. Ever since then they put hoops of 14” flashing around the wheels so that the mice can’t climb up the gear legs and get into the airplanes. It doesn’t take much rudder to fly a Cessna. I would have thought it would be fairly easy to land one without rudder if you had enough room. I landed a glider once that had a serious bind in the aileron linkage. It didn’t show up in the preflight control check, but became almost uncontrollable when it was under flight loads. A bolt had been put in backwards during some maintenance and nobody caught it.
I hate spiders, snakes too!
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