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I made some new, erm, friends on my drive home to SA over xmas. Eerrrgh!!!
http://27772.smugmug.com/Cars/MY10-Audi-S3/MY10-Audi-S3-miscellaneous/IMG5364/1146566442_nN6Eg-L.jpg
http://27772.smugmug.com/Cars/MY10-Audi-S3/MY10-Audi-S3-miscellaneous/IMG5375/1146566321_qhSZJ-L.jpg
Paolo
04-01-2011, 10:37 PM
white s3s are always sexy, how much did the plates cost ya?
must be a ho to clean the radiator and all that behind the grill after all those insect mofos
This was my MINI in December 2004 after a drive near Canberra, I think the S3 effort tops this now.
http://27772.smugmug.com/MINI/MY04-MINI-Cooper-S/IMG1182/13078804_qrNya-L.jpg
white s3s are always sexy, how much did the plates cost ya?
must be a ho to clean the radiator and all that behind the grill after all those insect mofos
Plates were around $600 one-off payment when I first got them made in tin (see the MINI pic), then about another $140 to get the re-made into plastic for the S3.
The S3 has heaps of plastic panels above the radiator so you can't actually see or get decent access to the radiator without pulling the car to bits. It's not too bad in any case, although seeing how far clusters of bugs ended up inside the engine bay is pretty amazing!
silverbullet
04-01-2011, 10:55 PM
Just dip them in honey and enjoy like john de baptiste
That's insane.. What a mess you have to clean up there!
richie32
04-01-2011, 11:52 PM
good effort lol rusty look is so yesterday :)
WOW.. i drove back from VIC to GC over the last few days and didnt get even close to that many.... !!!
Dang!!
Normal bugs are a pain to get off....good luck with those!
:p
Lots of hot soapy water and a heap of elbow grease should do the trick
;)
Robby_jai
05-01-2011, 01:38 AM
urrghh...... i know how you feel tho..... my 4wd recently became a locust bulldozer too on a recent drive to Melbourne.... stopped in some town in the victorian state.. got out.. and stood on the ground and could feel the crunch of locust as i stood on them.... rather unpleasant... i've still got bugs stuck in my intercooler and radiator....
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_pMalsYbwlWA/TSMigQYvSuI/AAAAAAAAAhA/xbVb3rzvWBM/s1152/P1010015.JPG (i ended up with even more BUGS by the time i reach melbourne!!!
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_pMalsYbwlWA/TSMit4x8B7I/AAAAAAAAAhQ/2uuCnHwBTgM/s1024/IMG_0197.JPG (the little critters taking a rest on my car!!!
WOW.. i drove back from VIC to GC over the last few days and didnt get even close to that many.... !!!
Yeah I think they were worse before Xmas. For some reason they head west against the usual weather flow and so I suspect they're busy screwing up WA now. We hardly had any on the way home either.
Justin Fox
05-01-2011, 09:19 AM
Wow. I'd pay for Dave to come over and clean that mess up for me (if it was me bahahaha).
wow those things are naaasssttyyyyyy!
Ouch. Good idea to get one of those front mount bras when doing long travels.
vanboy
05-01-2011, 10:04 AM
Im driving up to Syd friday week.. hopefully dont meet too many of these guys :(
Frenchie
05-01-2011, 10:53 AM
Durty !! Def something to address asap
schoona
05-01-2011, 11:53 AM
That's savage Liam :(
dev17a
05-01-2011, 01:35 PM
i drove to melbourne in november and fortunately it was raining throughout the night until morning (although the locusts plague was on that month).. still got a lot of bugs but your S3 grabs all Gold Medals for 'Crush Those Bugs' race :p
If they are stuck in the radiator.. use an airgun to blow them out. If you try hose them off they will expand, and make it near impossible to get out. This is because they're dried up, any water will just swell the carcus up.
Robby_jai
05-01-2011, 02:45 PM
thats not a bad idea now that you mention it.
Wow. I'd pay for Dave to come over and clean that mess up for me (if it was me bahahaha).
nice bug collections. i've got the same look after our xmas trip down to melbourne - really need to clean it 'cause the car looks like it puked on itself! lol
GP-GT
05-01-2011, 04:09 PM
If they are stuck in the radiator.. use an airgun to blow them out. If you try hose them off they will expand, and make it near impossible to get out. This is because they're dried up, any water will just swell the carcus up.
I have to reinforce these wise words.
Ran across them in April last year driving from Adelaide to Canberra - took months to get them all out and even longer for the smell of fried bug to leave the car!
This is about halfway through the trip. By the time I got home - could not recognise car or number plate.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5283/5325608603_3107a2525e.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/57919229@N06/5325608603/)
P1010110 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/57919229@N06/5325608603/) by GP-GT (http://www.flickr.com/people/57919229@N06/), on Flickr
Haha, I had a nasty experience on the CBR-ADL trip many years ago in my Mk4 GTI and, yep, took ages to get the buggers off. Partly my own fault because I left them on for a couple of days before washing them off.
For some reason the MINI used to suck up the bugs much more than any other car I have owned, I'd go for a drive with mates and my MINI would have bugs all over the front and theirs would still be pretty much spotless. Anyway, it was bad enough that you could tell the seasons by the smell in our garage - smell of dead bugs, must be summer; no smell, must be winter!
vdubin
05-01-2011, 07:27 PM
They have left our town finaly ! we had so many my car looked like your mini just driving locally .
It was insane how many there were.
god im glad there gone Ha
GP-GT
05-01-2011, 11:34 PM
?... Anyway, it was bad enough that you could tell the seasons by the smell in our garage - smell of dead bugs, must be summer; no smell, must be winter!
Yeah, I was the same - took months for the smell to leave my garage! Biggest problem I had with the Suby was that the "letterbox" on the bonnet meant two spots to enter the engine bay and two radiators/coolers to cook on. Was glad I was was not crossing the Hay this summer, esp. in my new Golf.
They have left our town finaly ! we had so many my car looked like your mini just driving locally .
It was insane how many there were.
god im glad there gone Ha
I can imagine.
With any luck the loss of the current auto-fad of mesh over the grille will soon be a distant memory too. :p
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