{"id":1321,"date":"2018-04-13T22:49:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T22:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2018-04-14T12:17:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:17:51","slug":"pine-cone-bmw-3-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/pine-cone-bmw-3-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Pine Cone BMW 3 Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pinecone_BMW.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1322 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pinecone_BMW.jpg\" alt=\"pine cone BMW\" width=\"600\" height=\"292\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pinecone_BMW.jpg 600w, https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pinecone_BMW-500x243.jpg 500w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/292;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A BMW 3 series became the home of the squirrels&#8217; food stash, for one it is a fire hazard 2 it may destroy the belt and perhaps could cause permanent engine damage if not caught early enough .<\/p>\n<p>Sometime it is worth to not to take our cars for granted and open the hood and take a quick peak under just to see if all is well.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of this vehicle had no idea that he\u2019s beloved BMW became a food stash for the local squirrels. We had to lower the lower engine cover to remove about half a bucket of pine cones. Lucky the little guy wasn\u2019t there anymore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pine-cone_BMW.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1323 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pine-cone_BMW.jpg\" alt=\"more pine cones\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pine-cone_BMW.jpg 600w, https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pine-cone_BMW-500x316.jpg 500w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/379;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, there was more pine cones also under the intake manifold. After there were no more room at the front of the engine, this little\u00a0squirrel kept on going and stored more pine cones under the manifold.\u00a0 Piling them away wherever there was any void, in this case under the intake manifold.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, its worth to open the hood every now and then and take a look at under it, just to see if all is well.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any related question, don&#8217;t hesitate to <a href=\"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/contact-us\/\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Attila Jasszai<br \/>\n<em>President of Techmax Auto Repair Inc<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torontowildlifecentre.com\/wildlife-emergency-rescue-hotline\/conflicts-with-wildlife\/common-squirrel-problems\/squirrel-in-your-car-engine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How can you prevent\u00a0 squirrels not to move into your car&#8217;s engine bay?\u00a0 Tips and tricks from Toronto Wildlife Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BMW 3 series became the home of the squirrels&#8217; food stash, for one it is a fire hazard 2 it may destroy the belt and perhaps could cause permanent engine damage if not caught early enough . Sometime it is worth to not to take our cars for granted and open the hood and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/pine-cone-bmw-3-series\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pine Cone BMW 3 Series&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[474],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pine-cone-bmw-3-series"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}