ARBÖ Operation After Car Breakdown Due to Animal Prank in Lower Austria

"A customer came to the inspection center with a fairly new car and reported that the car could no longer be shifted. He could only engage the first and second gears, the remaining gear positions were blocked," Redzic continued.

ARBÖ Lower Austria: Nuts Caused Car Breakdown---An Animal Prank Caused Gear Problems in Car

A customer, who had previously collected nuts with his wife in the forest in the district of Waidhofen a. d. Thaya, asked ARBÖ for a workshop towing service, as he suspected that the transmission was defective. "Before I fetched the truck, I took a look in the engine compartment to possibly find the error. What I saw then, I could hardly believe: An animal had - while the couple was in the forest - also collected nuts and placed them in the car's engine compartment in such a way that the gear linkage was at least partially blocked," said Redzic. The ARBÖ technician had to fish out about 20 nuts from the engine compartment so that the transmission could be shifted properly again.

"Which animal was so industrious and dragged the nuts into the car could not be determined afterwards. It was probably a squirrel or maybe a marten. Fortunately, no real damage was done to the car. I resolved the problem within a few minutes. The car owner was glad that it was just an animal prank and no major repair was needed," said the ARBÖ technician. "In the end, the couple, with the help of this animal, had a few more nuts than they had collected themselves in the forest," Redzic chuckled after this breakdown service.

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