Mechanics surprised to find secret nut stash under car bonnet

Mechanics at a garage in Gloucestershire discovered that a stash of nuts was the reason a woman's car was not running properly.



Staff at DPE Autosport in Poole Keynes, near Kemble, were baffled when they found hundreds of peanuts under the bonnet of an elderly customer's car. The woman had taken it in to the garage complaining that it was not running properly.



But when garage owner David Evans and member of staff Helen Plaister inspected the vehicle, they were "gobsmacked" to find a huge bag's worth of peanuts, supposedly stashed by a hungry mouse. Although, it may have been a squirrel.



"The lady whose car it is had obviously been feeding the birds and a mouse had stashed them in the car," said Helen. She added that she had never seen anything like this before. "It was quite fascinating," she said. "When we took the air filter lid off we were just gobsmacked."