The zaniest new car recall I’ve ever read about involves 67,000 new Mazdas Tangled Web. Yellow sac spiders for some unknown reason love to build nests in Mazda 6 four cylinder model cars’ evaporative canister vents, thereby potentially causing a fuel leak with fire hazard. An Evap canister simply absorbs fumes from tank and engine. If venting gets plugged up there can be a wide range of problems. Mazda must be overjoyed at this goofy happening. Their repair will probably be protested by some animal rights group claiming it’s violating spider rights. :)
Well geez--are we sure this isn't some kind of terrorist plot? Little Mazdas going poof all over America? Should they be strip-searched and fondled at every toll booth? ;)
ReplyDeleteI see a horror movie in the making. At least it would be more original than most of the crap hollyweird is offering these days.
ReplyDeleteSsssshhhhh... Raine, don't give the MIB's any ideas. I remember there are a lot of turnpikes and tollbooths in Ohio. :)
ReplyDeleteArachnoMazda, Charles? :)
Exactly who noticed this pattern?
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't seem to me to be something anyone, mechanic or otherwise would bother to record. I mean, do you document every time you find some bug somewhere in the car?
It may be more a sign of growth in that species of spider for some unknown reason. Or maybe in a certain area. Too many unknowns to determine a cause.
I didn't write the article, Whydibuy. I commented on it because I'd never heard of anything like it. As to how Mazda came to do the recall, if you've read the article I linked it states they had actual cases where they pinpointed the spider blockage. Sometimes real is stranger than fiction. :)
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