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Originally Posted by sifu_scott

The power steering on my wife's '06 Cruiser went out the other day. She got in and the wheel just would not turn. It wasn't locked, just obscenely hard to turn. Being the good (read: obsessive) person that I am, I checked the forums here and decided it was the power steering pump, and made plans accordingly to drop the $400 necessary to get it fixed. I took it to my favorite mechanic shop here and thought I'd waved bye-bye to a hefty chunk of change. About thirty minutes later, my cellphone rings. It's the mechanic.

Mechanic - "Sir, we found the problem. It's not the power steering pump."
*cue ominous music as I prepared to hear about a far more expensive problem*

Me - "Okay...What's the problem?"

Mechanic - "Well, sir, it seems that a MOUSE got into your engine to get warm against the power steering belt. Poor little bugger probably never even saw it coming when your wife turned the car on. We cleaned it up and it works fine now."

Me - "A mouse?!? That's what did this?"

Mechanic - "Yep. Saved you lots of money too...It's be $85. The car's ready now."

So anyway, the car runs, the mouse is gone and Tabby took her car to work. Weird, but true.

Poor mouse.