This morning was just about warm enough to wash GBMINI (well overdue); when I opened the engine bay to top up the washer bottles, I caught a movement – a mouse ran from its nest and vanished! The nest is impressive and I guess the mouse has good taste to choose to live in GBMINI – but I wish it elsewhere. I can’t imagine it would survive there while I was driving, so I think the whole nest must have been built yesterday while we were out in Margarets car.
Minolta DSC
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I hope the little guy has gone now, and not damaged anything …
M&I / GBMINI 
Hah, nice. Yeah it’s pretty warm out. I started to put my snows on but the Miata is in the garage and the road in front of the house wasn’t level enough for me…plus it’s lame pavement and the jack wasn’t rolling like it should have so I stopped.
Not supposed to snow for a while anyway. 🙂
Having seen many pics of you easterners engine bays, over the last year and a half, I’ve noticed they all look very used compared to our west coast units.
It must be the roads salts…if they still use them. It must be very harsh on your equipment. Are there certain maintenance things you must do to keep things for going south?
***RB
If there is something I should do, I don’t know what it is – perhaps a *real* New Englander can answer!
On the other hand, check out Steves engine bay!
Of course I didn’t say all looked bad. Steve’s is spot on clean. Must be new.
***RB
Keep an eye on that engine compartment. Some of those nasty rodents have been known to nibble through rubber… Ignition wires, hoses, etc.