A couple of days ago me and my sweetie {wife} decided
to take the Vette for a drive because it's close to storage
time. I pulled it out of the garage {After a two week rest}
and noticed I hadn't close the hood all the way last time,
so I lifted it for a drop and @##%&$## mice had stored
dog food on the fresh air inlet!!! I vacuumed it out.
D-Con and mouse traps were put out. Two kills!

UPDATE>>>>>>> KILLS AT THREE!!!


[Modified by myruby2, 10:26 PM 10/24/2001]

 

Sorry Dale, but you're gonna have to move this to the kills section. :D :yesnod: :lol:

 

Started up mine earlier in the year to a pair of little eye ***** starting at me.

Check your wires, mice like to use it for insutlation! :mad

 

Get ready everyone... Winter's coming! I use traps, de-con, ultrasonic devices, moth *****... what a pain in the behind! These critters like air intakes and little, itty bitty wires (like the ones on the fuel injectors).

Have fun!

 

Dale - I moved my Ruby to FL so now I don't have to store it for the winters of NY. Gators are too big to worry about! :D

 

MURDERER!!!




[Modified by A96LT4, 4:56 PM 10/24/2001]

 

Reminds me of about 6 weeks ago. Me and 3 other friends went camping on top of Whitetop mtn. VA. Friend 1 has an explorer, and slept in it at night. After 2-1/2 days of camping, he starts his tr uck the morning we were leaving to get warmed up. Turns the heat on, and heares the god awfulest buzz he's ever heard. After tearing his blower motor out of his truck right there (thank god we always have tools!) he discovers a mouse (not a squirrel) built a nest in the squirrel cage blower in his truck! We are still trying to figure out how the #(*$#@ a mouse got into that thing. There's screens in the intake, his truck was always closed (except when he got in & out of it), and there's only a small drip pipe of about 1/2" leading from the bottom of his blower motor, which in turn the mouse would have to crawl between the armature and another 1/2" hole in the front plate of the motor. Was good for some real laughs, at least!

 

Well... Ahhh... See the thing is... They're al-Quaida mice...
Yeah. That's it! Just the ticket... And proven ties to Bin Laden.
MONSTERS!!! KILL! KILL! KILL!




[Modified by myruby2, 10:29 PM 10/24/2001]

 

Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out!!!!!!!! Oh, sorry, I forgot we were talking about mice.

Last year we had a `64 coupe which had sat for at least ten years restored. In those ten years mice had COMPLETELY ruined the entire interior, heater system, wiring, etc. After a VERY expensive restoration, we got in the car to drive it home - it still reeked of mouse ****! They had not removed and cleaned the heater assembly box and heater core. :mad After removing, cleaning, scrubbing, and disinfecting we have a `64 you can ride in without gagging. SHOW NO MERCY, kill all the stinkin' little *&$^*# !!

By the way, set the traps in our garage yesterday - two kills already.

 

Man, this hits home! For years, I've wondered why when I bought my car, that it seemed that every air vent, had what looked like DOG FOOD stored there. Even in hidden areas around the interior. The car had been stored for a long time and the gent lived out in the country. I guess this splains it alrighty. Darn meeces! :smash:

 

Pull your fuel rail covers and look under them. When I bought my '93, I found a huge mouse nest on the left side under the cover. I was amazed the darn thing hadn't caught fire with all the grass and pine needles.

 

:smash: :smash: :smash: :smash: KILL KILL KILL :smash: :smash: :smash: :smash: :reddevil

Just thought I would put my $0.02 in. I don't have any problems w/ mice here, but if I find dog food, I will surely let my cat camp out in the car. :D :smash: :cheers:

 

Reminds me when I first got my Vette in Florida. Rode down to the Keys and stayed for a couple of days. On the way back I noticed my digital oil temp readout wasn't working. When I got back to Texas and took it to the dealer they said they found mice feces and evidently mice had chewed the wire on the oil temp sensor, and told me it was cost $600 in parts and labor to fix. Called the 1-800 number for GM and bytched about the cost of the repair. The dealer reduced it to $150.

 

YEAH! When I got the car home and started tinkering with it, I found a mouse nest under the intake plenum! (fried, of course) :eek: :eek: :eek:


[Modified by GRX, 1:46 PM 10/25/2001]


[Modified by GRX, 1:47 PM 10/25/2001]

 

You guys are scaring the bejabbers out of me!!!
Intake plenums, fuel rails…. Next thing ya know
I’ll be pulling the heads.I gave a look around the
engine bay and didn’t notice anything. Runs great.

Something really strange happened!!! I set four traps.
Two were set off the first day. The one behind the
wheel of the tractor was gone!!! Trap, dead mouse,
and all. It was there an hour before. No not the dog…
Can’t get in there. I think they did a rescue mission.
Or worse yet… Something really big came and got it.

My poor old dog use to eat all his food and chase
anything he could see or smell. Now I think he’s sharing.


I hope I can sleep tonight.

 

Time to get a kitty-cat. :lol:

 

Now you've all got me scared. Okay, so I know what to in the interior of the car and exhaust to prevent mice...but what should I do under the hood? Would laying rows of bounce over the entire area work, do ya think?? I would absolutely freak if I opened the hood and found a mouse in there. :cry

 

Over the winter, I put mothballs in an old pair of the wife's pantyhose and place it near the throttlebody or plennum. It really stinks and the mice don't really like it.

 

We do the seasonal cat thing. Every winter some ferile cat in our neighborhood decides to make crash quarters out of our car port. That works out fine for us since the Vettte gets put down for the winter. kitty gets a nice, cozy place to lay up (wow that sounds Freudian) and keeps the LT-1 mouse free.

My wife's MPV mini-van (a.k.a. war wagon) and my 325 BMDubb daily driver get driven so much, said rodents don't have time to take up roost.

My only concern with D-con and other poisons would be the possibility of the rodents crawling off in some godawful obscure place inside the Vette's passenger compartment before they wretch to death from the cyanide. Then, it would be funk-O-rama for sure, even from their mummified carcasses!

 

Mairi, one word: Mouse-trap. ...and I mean one of those "politically incorrect" Rush Limbaugh, neck-snapping spring-sprung, mouse traps! By god, its war! Its us against the meeces! ...and we will prevail! :eek: :jester :eek: