Ok, so I know these little buggers like to make their home on the cabin air filter (I already cleaned up that nest).
But my issue now is that since I caught this darn mouse, the car smells like a burnt, rotting mouse under the engine bay whenever the engine gets up to temps.
I had the car jacked up, looked freaking EVERYWHERE! and still can't find where this darn dead one is at!
I'm pretty sure it's not in the vents though, as there's no smell inside the car when it's idling or driving...as long as I keep my windows closed.

Does anyone have ideas where to start looking?? Could it have made a nest on top of the torque tube or something?!
Where else have Corvette owners found these pests?

 

I would look under the plenum cover if you haven't yet.

 

I know it sounds redneck, but I'd have my dog go out and sniff around. I know mine would probably find that stink fast!

 

Whats a plenum cover??

 

The white piece in the middle... Good Luck!

 

Looks to be a supercharger in the pic so no plenum cover. I respond to all these "mouse" posts and I'm sure people are tire of hearing it but I had a mouse climb deep in to my HVAC system through the filter and die a year and a half ago. It's still there... I wasn't about to pay $2500 to tear my dash apart for it to not go back together right so I decided to let it hopefully petrify.
Whatever you do don't bait them with poison. That's what I did. Now I keep bags of pepperiment on my supercharger lid and near the filter. I hear they don't like that. Get a cat

 

Good luck - hope you can track down the location of the smell. Perhaps some kind of camera system that allows you to view hard to see areas of the car might help.

 

Heater box most likely. We find nests of mice and sometimes the mice themselves in the blower motor's
squirrel cage. They like to take air filter material, bring it to the heater box and make nests of it. Spray
some Lysol in the cowl vents to see if this helps.

 

possibly somewhere up in the exhaust...

 

This has posted before but buy PEPPERMINT this stuff repels rodents mice and squirrels there are packets, extract, and spray try AMAZON

 

@jerkyboy Yeah it's a 2650 Mag. I actually read that post about the mouse dying in your hvac. Damn that would suck! I think I caught mine in time though - it had built a nest on the cabin air filter, which I shop vacc'd and then sprayed the new filter with peppermint and tee tree oil. I also soaked a bunch of cotton ***** with the stuff too and put them underneath the wiper cowl. Seemed to keep them out of that area at least.
I also don't smell anything in the cab anymore, it's only noticeable on the outside of the car now. Thing is is, I used poison bait for the first 3 days, but later decided to use a trap instead for this exact reason. Didn't want it dying and rotting in the engine bay somewhere. Guess I was too late!

@Vetteman Jack I'm starting to think that too. It might be the only way I'll find anything under this dang engine bay. lol

@Swolejack Would that not create a strong smell inside the cab though? It smelled bad before I cleaned up the cabin air filter nest, but I can't smell anything inside now. Just smells like I'm hauling around a rotten carcass on the outside now.

@Travlee At this point I would think it had to be somewhere on the exhaust, right? But how would it still be there after doing +200km/h though?

@Walter Raulerson I made a super strong mixture of both peppermint and tee tree oil combined and sprayed the entire engine bay. They absolutely refused! to leave. I even put one of my cats on the supercharger, hoping the cat hair or smell would deter them. But nope! They stuck it out - until I got the little f***** with the trap and the other one with poison bait. But now I can't find where the one that ate the poison died.lol

I should also note that I even tried one of those super annoying high pitched sonic emitting devices. I think the sound just helped them fall asleep better.

These little suckers have been giving me some serious headaches since Spring already. Literally been a three month battle. lol

 

i mean if it melted onto the hot metal, it is possible. does it smell more like decaying or cooking..?

 

It had this burnt hair smell at first, then changed into this awful, highly potent decaying smell. It only smells that way when the car is up to full temp too. Nothing when it's cold.

 

re-read all your responses... maybe behind a fender liner ?

 

Yeah thats another thing I've been considering. I'll try taking it apart next and see if they made a new home in there.

How can one tiny rodent be so darn annoying!?

 

Good idea. The liners are easy enough to remove and replace.

Best of luck!

 

behind the grill would be another place to look. man it really could be anywhere, at least its not actually in the cockpit

 

Is it true or false that using dryer sheets help with keeping them away?

 

Some swear by dryer sheets, but it seems Bounce is the brand that supposedly works best. I myself have found dryer sheets used as nesting material by the little bastards.
I also had chunks of Irish Spring soap end up with chew marks on them.

 

Make sure you check in your airbox as well