You wont beleive this!

[pepsi]

hey im new to this site and have never posted anything, because everything i want to know has already ] been asked, and answered by some one else. i have a VT V6 exec. i have a redback 2.5" exhaust system and my mechanic is currently chasing up some extractors for me. also im looking at getting some chrome 17's but havent decided on a style yet. all suggesstions are welcome

ok by now you would be wondering what is soo great about this thread and why wouldnt i beleive it. this is why.

Yesterday arvo at about 1 i was getting ready to go up to my girlfriends before i went to work. i opened the passenger door and put my work clothes on the seat when i heard something. sort of like an air sound coming from the bonnet. i stopped an listend. but thought nothing of it. i shut the door walked around, got in the drivers seat and turned the key in the ignition expecting to hear the crisp clicking over of the starter motor and the deep tone of the enigine through the exhaust. but i didnt. it started, but only just. i turned it off and tried again. but still she sounded sick. i pulled the lever and popped the hood, i hadnt checked the coolant for a couple weeks so i thought i should check that. i put my right hand on the silver radiator cap pressed down and was about to turn it left when i noticed something slither past my hand!

I KID YOU NOT! A SNAKE! A red belly black snake had found its way into my engine!

i jumped back scared ****less. i called my younger brother from inside. he rang my dad. who spead home.

by the time my dad got home the snake had slid underneath the cold air intake and only its head was visible but only if you looked from the height of the bonnet. i have circled the part its head was sitting and drawn(scribbbled) where it was hiding



now the only problem was trying to get it out. as you can see in the picture above we carefully took off the air intake and radiotor cover. the snake had fallen between the radiator and the air con fans, there is a gap about 2" where it thought it was safe. we got the fire hose which is connected to our bore and has plenty of pressure. and sprayed around in that 2'' gap for quite some time. i then turned my car on hoping if it got hot enough the snake might fall out the bottom and piss off. but it didnt. it was still hiding underneath the radiator and air con fans on the ledge which must protect them. after several attempts to hook it out it seemd to have vanished.


finally i spotted it near the fuse box infront of the battery and was underneath the black lip i have drawn over

it was then i realised how big it actually was. it was fatter than a garden hose.

when we finally got it out and it died for unknown reasons..*cough*

i measured and took pictures of it. which i would post on here but dont want to offend anyone. and hope i already havent. if you want to see the pics send me a line on shredhead09@hotmail.com

it was 30'' long.

Just goes to show you shouldnt never check you coolant. you should instead wait to you run out of coolant and overheat your engine. and get a new car

but seriously if you live in a rural area like i do, next time you put your hands anywhere you cant and can see, be careful of a deadly snake!

i was very very close to being bitten. it is something i will always be wary of and never forget

[Lloyd1986]

You know the snake could have saved you from nasty scalding. If you engine was just on, and hot, and you opened the radiator cap, all the pressurized boiling hot radiator fluid would come spraying out! And you killed the poor thing, even though it saved you! *sigh*

[accentstencil]

Are you sure it wasn't the "serpentine" belt?

[POVRTY]

the only good snake is a dead snake

[immortality]

the only good thing about NZ.... no snakes, at least not of the reptile variety anyways

[Lloyd1986]

What is wrong with you people? Snakes are great They make good pets, and in the wild they eat rats and mice. I would rather have snakes, than rats and mice.

[veclubby]

Are you sure it wasn't the "serpentine" belt?

lol that was a good call!

thats pretty nuts hey...that would be the last thing i would expect to see under my bonnet

[batemada]

It happens alot in the USA as well sepecially in the desert areas, the snakes clime up into a cars warm engine bay at night when the outside temprature plummits you go to start your car in the morning and find that it wont, go to open up the bonet to see what is going on only to hear an angry hiss comming from the engine. There are people in the US where all they do is rescue snakes from cars that have got in overnight.

Im very glad that there are no snakes here in NZ :-)

[dmitch]

i would have taken it to a mechanic i dont like and said theres a problem :P ...

[Dezza]

i would have taken it to a mechanic i dont like and said theres a problem :P ...

Or get a ford driver to open it

[adam_vr]

yeah a car came into my old work with a snake in the engine bay, customer didnt even know, we called some snake guy to come get it out.

[Sebastian]

that wouldve been crazy i can tell you ill be a bit more wary next time i open my bonnet, also just wondering how the snake wouldve caused the engine to malfunction

[pepsi]

that wouldve been crazy i can tell you ill be a bit more wary next time i open my bonnet, also just wondering how the snake wouldve caused the engine to malfunction

haha yea i am now.

i told my uncle the news and now he opens his bonnet with a broom stick