Thanks for the swift help, everyone! Much appreciated.
And don't forget the lovely, all-purpose, vivid yet vague phrase "tampered with
Good advice, Pam.
It always works in the movies
LOL, CC! I thought of those, but I think they'd be more likely to stop the car dead in its tracks - doesn't sugar seize up the engine completely? - and I need it to work for a little bit after the fact.
The cutting through some kind of belt seems like my best bet, I think. Should do the trick and be relatively easy to disguise as a natural fault.
Nan's Sugar Daddy appealed to me an awful lot
, but I couldn't think of any way the culprit would have something like that handy. <g>
EDIT: I've just noticed CC said sugar in the gas tank. I think that might be something different from what I was thinking of. Anyone know if that would work? Disable the car not immediately but a few miles or so further down the road? The idea has sparked something off and if it
would do that I think I'd like to work with this one.
LabRat
