What is a 'marten repeller'???

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Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:07 pm

never heard of it before.

anyone?

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Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:10 pm

Its designed to keep these little feckers from chewing your wiring :thumb:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marten
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Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:11 pm

serious???
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Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:13 pm

Cook318IS wrote:Its designed to keep these little feckers from chewing your wiring :thumb:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marten
Love it!


might be some sort of surpressor or something??
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Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:13 pm

By the look of it,it's the gadget on one of the ign leads that tells the ECU which batch of injectors to fire.
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Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:15 pm

Martens like to chew wiring becuase of a chemical in the insulation, presumably the bmw ht leads insulation has something that they don't like in it.

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Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:17 pm

Cook318IS wrote:Martens like to chew wiring becuase of a chemical in the insulation, presumably the bmw ht leads insulation has something that they don't like in it.

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Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:24 pm

These little gits are big business in germany :D

http://www.autobild.de/ir_img/1852099_25042cce29.jpg
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Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:26 pm

usually when I say I've learnt something new today, its crap or boring

not today though....
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Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:27 pm

Aye! This little bastard is pretty serious. Check out that emotionless look in his eyes, imagine if you opened your bonnet and saw that!

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Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:28 pm

Yeah, it's circiut within that when energized produces an ultrasonic frequency that deters rodents from making home in your engine bay...

...same way that when your neighbours are bumping dubstep at 3am you want to move house!
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Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:30 pm

nice growler
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Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:35 pm

Cook318IS wrote:
Aye! This little bastard is pretty serious. Check out that emotionless look in his eyes, imagine if you opened your bonnet and saw that!

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They dont really look like that Paul! :D
I think the picture has been exaggerated slightly for sales purposes :)
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Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:38 pm

DanThe wrote:
Cook318IS wrote:
Aye! This little bastard is pretty serious. Check out that emotionless look in his eyes, imagine if you opened your bonnet and saw that!

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They dont really look like that Paul! :D
I think the picture has been exaggerated slightly for sales purposes :)
You sure? It looks real to me :chuckle: :wink:
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Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:40 pm

looks like my cat
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Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:40 pm

Looks more like a cat to me, nasty little bastards they are :twisted:
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Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:12 pm

VW have similar technical bulletins on "checking for Marten damage" :cry:
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