Just got finished paying the dealer to replace the heater blower in my 04 CE Coupe due to an unwelcome visitor building a nest in the fan. Luckily there was no chewed wiring harness damage. Anyone else experience this problem? I thought I was driving the car enough to keep the pests out of it. I owned a 75 Roadster, which I put no more than 1200 miles a year on and saw a little indication of visitors but no nesting problems. Any solutions other than to have a cat live in the car!

 

Build a better mouse trap!

 

I think Bill Curlee had the same thing happen to him. Ask him about his mouse trap! LOL
jeff

 

You're lucky that you found the critter when you did. Would not have been good if he would have chewed some wires or just died in there.

 

I had a similar incident with a 1982 Mercury Capri I had while in college. A field rat, little bitty thing, made a home in my car. I would come out in the morning, he would be sunning himself on the steering wheel. As soon as he would see me, he would dissappear. Tried everything but poison, didn't want it to die in the car. Pretty freaky driving around at night and hearing a rat scuttling around in the dash!! Never did catch him. Guess he upgraded to a vette!!

I filed a claim with my insurance company. After paying the deductible, they covered the rest. Said it was vandalism.

 

Yep, you better get rid of them quick, they will be back if you don't...Check under your fuel rail covers too, another favorite nesting place.

 

I was doing my underhood cleaning the other day and realized that I had NEVER pulled off the fuel rail covers. (I'm not proud of it.) So I decided to do so and guess what I found? A nest with some shredded paper, acorn husks, pine needles and other mousehold goods. I freaked and got the shop vac. I think that the nest had been there for a while and I have placed several traps around the garage. I hope they were in there from the previous owner but you can never be too careful.

 

One of the key things is to make sure there is nothing edible in your garage. This time of the year they are looking for food and a warm place (I guess we all are!!) . Also, empty soda/beer containers and such will attract them....

 

Boy do I have the story. After reading that other meices to pieces thread I noticed some mouse droppings in my garage and got scared my cars would get chewed up or worse. So I go to Wal-Mart the other day and buy these plastic traps where you put peanut butter in them the mouse goes in and then cant get out. So I set two traps up,.. 24 hours goes by nothing. Today I look and one of the traps is GONE,.. GONE I say and I can't find it!!! WTF is in my garage? Now im going in there at nite and I hear nothing at all crawling around. Needless to say I went to Menards today and got the rat poison pellets im not taking any chances. Im still trying to figure out how there getting in and where the it took the dam trap.

 

Bigfoot...be careful

Peace
Willfulone

 

i agree that thing is a bomb!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Here is another link to another MOUSE story.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...highlight=MICE

Here is my Mouse in the FAN story

My 98 coupe had a very bad electrical problem and was running poorly last winter when it was extremely COLD. It was parked outside under the cover for about 2 weeks. It was very warm out one day and I decided to crank her up and take a ride to see if maybe the warmer weather would make a difference.

I sliped the key in, mashed in the clutch, turned the key to start and she fired right up. ALL OF A SUDDEN the entire dash started to shake and a loud roaring noise started happening! I almost SH!# my pants. I thought sure as hell the engine blew!

Just as I was reaching for the key to kill the engine, this nasty cloud of dust, dirt, bits of paper and a horid odor came out of the center dash vent!!

Talk about being relieved!!!

What had happened was a mouse had built a huge nest in the HVAC squirel cage fan and the blower speed (just my luck) was on high.

It took me about 5 hours to take everything apart, get all of that nest out of the vent ducts and eveporator and reassemble everything.

I keep snap traps under the car and two velcroed to the top of the battery. I got the suckers! Three of them!!!!

Here is Rube Goldberg mouse trap for you! The write up about it in is in the attached post:


Bill

 

We need a place to live too!

 

So I've been seeing little footprints across the hood of the car for a while and knew there was something in the garage. One day after taking out the trash my son came into the house white as a sheet saying it wasn't funny. I immediately knew he came across something but I couldn't figure out why he was so scared. I said show me and he took me into the garage where the trash cans were and pointed in the trash can to the piece of "fur" and said it wasn't funny that I put it there to scare him. He was in front of me and I took a broom stick and poked the "fur." The possom unrolled and hissed while exposing its little teath. I think my son soiled himself while trying to get out from between me and the trash can and I had the best laugh in a long time.

 

 

The best defense is the offene of a standard mouse trap. A previous post said that the trap dissappeared. I had the same experience and found the trap 20 feet away with a dead mouse. If the trap doesn't kill them immediately they crawl for a while.

In the fall I vaccumed the Corvette and scared a mouse, or it scared me. Set several traps in the garage and in the next week got 6 of them. Haven't caught any since January. Spring is comming so will deal with the black snakes next.

 

Had a 2000 T/A, they got on top of the gas tank and ate the insullation of the sending unit harness, what a mess. Insurance covered it minus deductable. I keep Decon boxes all around the garage now, no kids or pets so not a problem.

 

I wouldn't be going out to your garage at night!!

 

I had one floating in there two days ago. Tom

 

I've got spring traps which I set every fall. I catch a couple as the temps turn every year. I'm going to check them now as I forget about them until I read a thread like this! Thanks for the wake-up call.