Muffler Hair?
08-24-2003
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Muffler Hair?
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This morning I went to my car to find that it had grown what appeared to be "hair" from the tailpipe. It was about 10 inches long and gray, with brown highlights. I had to get to class for a test, so I gave my car a haircut with my Swiss army knife. I tried to pull the rest out of the tailpipe, but it wouldn't budge. I am continuing to drive my car. What came out of the back end of my car? Should I get it checked? Any advice on how to tell a mechanic about this without sounding like I've lost my mind? -- Samantha
Ray: Well, Samantha, the first thing I'd do is contact Sy Sperling at the Hair Club for Men to see about becoming a supplier. If this continues, you could pay off your student loans, and then some.
Tom: We've actually seen this before, Samantha. It's muffler hair. Some cars (we've seen it on Hondas) use a fibrous insulating material as a sound deadener in their mufflers. When the muffler starts to deteriorate, the stuff starts to come off, and it heads out through the tailpipe. And you're right -- it looks and feels just like hair. I find it quite disgusting and creepy, actually.
Ray: What it's made of, I don't know. But now that you mention it, I have seen a large fleet of Accords in the Hair Club for Men parking lot.
Tom: So, what to do? In the short run, I'd apply some leave-in conditioner. That'll make it more manageable.
Ray: Actually, you can keep driving the car, but this means that your muffler is on the way out. And sooner rather than later, the car is going to get real loud. So if you've got the money, you might as well replace the muffler now, Samantha.
That's creepy. Haha
This morning I went to my car to find that it had grown what appeared to be "hair" from the tailpipe. It was about 10 inches long and gray, with brown highlights. I had to get to class for a test, so I gave my car a haircut with my Swiss army knife. I tried to pull the rest out of the tailpipe, but it wouldn't budge. I am continuing to drive my car. What came out of the back end of my car? Should I get it checked? Any advice on how to tell a mechanic about this without sounding like I've lost my mind? -- Samantha
Ray: Well, Samantha, the first thing I'd do is contact Sy Sperling at the Hair Club for Men to see about becoming a supplier. If this continues, you could pay off your student loans, and then some.
Tom: We've actually seen this before, Samantha. It's muffler hair. Some cars (we've seen it on Hondas) use a fibrous insulating material as a sound deadener in their mufflers. When the muffler starts to deteriorate, the stuff starts to come off, and it heads out through the tailpipe. And you're right -- it looks and feels just like hair. I find it quite disgusting and creepy, actually.
Ray: What it's made of, I don't know. But now that you mention it, I have seen a large fleet of Accords in the Hair Club for Men parking lot.
Tom: So, what to do? In the short run, I'd apply some leave-in conditioner. That'll make it more manageable.
Ray: Actually, you can keep driving the car, but this means that your muffler is on the way out. And sooner rather than later, the car is going to get real loud. So if you've got the money, you might as well replace the muffler now, Samantha.
That's creepy. Haha
08-24-2003
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Sounds like they ran somebody over or something.. Thats pretty scary! Maybe you they hit somebody and they went into the intake, through your headers, and got stuck on their way out the exhaust... Iono, I think it may have just been fungus..
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Rep Power: 0 my friends del sol is doing the same thing. it is an actual problem. it looks like hair, well actually long strands of sos pads. it is wierd.
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Rep Power: 0 maybe the intake sucked up hair that the filter didn't catch then it magically didnt get burned when it combusted and went through the engine ... its superman's hair really
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Rep Power: 0 can it be fibers froma a glas packed muffler? maybe the core is messed up and is burning the stuff inside... as the stuff flys out it coold down and leaves a hair....
08-25-2003
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Rep Power: 308 I had a mouse crawl into my muffler last winter, I was parked out in the country at a friends house and the next morning I woke up hungover so my friend was going to drive me home. He cranked it up right as I was walking around the back and a field mouse ran like hell to get out of the tailpipe, some of the funniest **** I've seen.
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Rep Power: 0 who cares you guys get made when you post a new topic and then you get mad for bringing up an old topic.. you guys are too ****.. get a life, its just a message board....
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Rep Power: 315 Originally posted by clownprince
I had a mouse crawl into my muffler last winter, I was parked out in the country at a friends house and the next morning I woke up hungover so my friend was going to drive me home. He cranked it up right as I was walking around the back and a field mouse ran like hell to get out of the tailpipe, some of the funniest **** I've seen.
I had a mouse crawl into my muffler last winter, I was parked out in the country at a friends house and the next morning I woke up hungover so my friend was going to drive me home. He cranked it up right as I was walking around the back and a field mouse ran like hell to get out of the tailpipe, some of the funniest **** I've seen.
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