Wandering spiders lead Mazda to recall 65,000

[The Straight Story]

Wandering spiders lead Mazda to recall 65,000

WASHINGTON – Mazda has some creepy crawly culprits in its new safety recall — spiders.

After discovering spider webs in the vents, the Japanese automaker is recalling more than 50,000 Mazda6 cars from the 2009-2010 model years in the United States and an additional 15,000 vehicles in Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico.

The company said Thursday a spider could weave a web in a vent connected to the fuel tank system and clog up the tank's ventilation. Pressure on the fuel tank could lead to a crack, causing fuel leakage and the risk of a fire.

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Mazda spokesman Jeremy Barnes said dealers had identified 20 cases in which spider webs were found in the vents. The webs were linked to yellow sac spiders, Barnes said, but it was unclear why they were crawling into the Mazda6 rather than other vehicles.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110303/ap_on_re_us/us_mazda_recall

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1. Wandering Spiders? Jesus, could you imagine

looking up on your dash and seeing this staring back at you?




Very venomous and aggressive. I get the creepy heebie jeebies just thinking about this but it looks like Mazda just meant some spiders "wandered in" and made webs in bad places. It didn't mean actual wandering spiders.

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2. Spiders Prefer Mazdas! Zoom-Zoom

Guess it is better than Cosmic Rays hitting the gas for ya.

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3. Ferrari Spider Divorces Mazda 6 Citing Irreconcilable Differences

Infidelity is believed to be the cause.




(These things just write themselves!)

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4. What a Tangled Web We Weave... Is Your Mazda Not Telling You Something?

I can't help myself.

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5. Eight Legs or Four Wheels; Who Will Be the Victor? Film at 11.

Then 12:00, then 12:34, and, of course Fox and Friends! at 9ish.

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6. Saw this on the local news and had to laugh.