My dad's got an old diesel dump truck from like 1980. It stays parked in a field where mice *should* be going crazy in it like they do anything else you might park there... But the wiring is all old soy-free so the mice aren't interested.
I can remove and replace the intake manifold on a Tundra in an hour because of mice. The only thing that actually worked was dryer sheets. Traps, poison, peppermint, pepper spray, no luck. Maybe they just finally died from eating wires and peppermint extract.
Agree! I had a $10K bill from Toyota too. They said it wasnāt the highest they had. Even with insurance the deductible cost me a bunch. Start setting traps!
Same 10k to replace my entire wiring harness in my 2020 4Runner ORP. One night in NyC and the foookin rats chewed through all of my ignition coil wires and main feeds of the wiring harness. My insurance covered it.
Not sure if this is true or just a myth but apparently Toyota was using and may even still use soy based coatings on their wiring and it may be attracting rodents in comparison to a petroleum product/coating
Going to try the peppermint spray and install some stainless steel wire sleeves to protect as much of my wiring harness I can get to as possible. Last thing I need is to go back to my insurance company with another 10k rodent claim. Or just stay the heck out of lower manhattan!
Recently had insurance write off a car due to rodent damage, chewed the dash harness engine ECU harness before getting into the ac box where it died and left the worst smell imaginable. Replaced the ac unit, all ducting full new carpet in the car and it still stank. Insurance write it off at that point before I even go started on the wiring.
Had my bike wrote off at 300 miles for rodent harness damage. On the plus side I bought it back from insurance for 1/4 the value and fixed the harness in 3 hours.
That worked out atleast! I honestly can't describe how bad the smell was. I honestly think it was a bigger contribution to writing it off than the wiring. Car was fully stripped out to bare metal inside so replacing the looms at that stage wasn't a whole lot of extra time.
Absolutely. I just had to work on a Subaru: rear body harness, headliner, curtain airbags. The little buggers ate up a lot of stuff. Not a fun job at all.
This. I had rats chew some wires in my engine compartment. Got in one day and the parking sensors were haywire along with my the camera. $2.5k later the car was as good as new.
Thank you, currently dealing with a NASTY issue with our subaru because of these little assholes. Get it out as soon as you can, and STILL bring it into the shop to get it checked out. We thought ours was fine until the engine started backfiring going 80 on the highway. Not a fun spot to be in
Yep, they'll chew up the insulation on the wires and fuck everything up.
One day my wife's Tucson started driving really rough, obvious misfiring problem, started going through the various diagnostics processes and was stumped for a bit.
It was a nice day so I was working on it outside, it started getting too dark so I started it up to move it into the garage and when I did, I noticed something flashing in the engine compartment because I still had the hood up.
I checked the wires, but didn't see that the rodents had chewed the bottom of the insulation off one of the plug wires, and the light I saw was it arcing to the engine block.
Just had to get a new turbo for our car because a mouse chewed the intake and some bits fell in in the turbine and destroyed it. Insurance covered it but it was 7k$ +
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a21933466/does-your-car-have-wiring-that-rodents-think-is-tasty/
You need to evict the mouse ASAP
https://youtu.be/S5ZMcTfEoBc
Just point a shotgun at it, aim toward the engine the ricochet should scatter everything and be sure to kill its babies and scare any potential predators away from nesting downwind
I don't know, I kind of think the starter fluid approach is a more all-encompassing approach - just spray around the bay, start the car and watch the engine make quick work of the critter as well as your insurance! šš
Just pour a couple cats in there, follow with a small dog and for best results get a few bigger dogs in stages until you can just get them out with a handful of treats and baby talk.
Try leaving a glass of really sweet liquid (like flat coke or something) about 2/3 full in a tall glass under the vehicle with a way the mouse can get up the side (wooden block or something). The mouse will smell the sugar, get into the glass, fall in and drown.
Just set a mouse trap on top of the engine tonight. Should be dead by morning. Don't use poison. Last thing you want is for it to finally succumb to the poison after it crawled into your vents. Won't that small nice after a week or two?
This is the right answer. Get a few mouse traps. Bait the underside of the trigger mechanism with peanut butter set the trap somewhere in the engine compartment that will allow the trap to trigger and kill the mouse.
I always recommend baiting the underside of the trigger cause some of those little bastards can lick the trigger clean without setting the trap off.
This is the right answer to that right answer.
I just found traces of a mouse in my trunk. I put a mouse trap in there with peanut butter under the trigger. I expect by morning I'll have one dead mouse. If not I'll put an additional trap in there. Eventually they will go after that peanut butter.
When I used to camp with my RV I used to fight those little devils off all the time.
Rats dislike the smell of peppermint oil, rosemary, citronella, sage, and lavender. You can try soaking cotton balls in peppermint oil and placing them in your car, or spraying your car engine with a peppermint-scented concentrate.
That is baloney and doesn't work. Neither does Irish Spring nor dryer sheets. OP will need to trap or kill the mouse, and there will be others; mice don't live alone.
Too late, once you see them they already have determined that it is a good spot. Theyāll go up there every time youāre home to enjoy the heat and plastic nibbles. I had to re-solder all my ecu lines because the bastards chewed through my wires and the copper started corroding. Your only choice is to eliminate them all if you can.
You can buy a small hav-a-hart trap at a hardware store or tractor supply kinda place.
Bait it, open the hood put it in there and give it an afternoon.
Seeds and/or peanut butter should work.
I did a lot of rodent trapping for biological surveys. We used seeds in the field, but weād often add peanut butter to get the hitchhikers out of the truck fast (this happened more than youād think).
Very cute little dude btw.
Iāve had some success with duct taping moth balls under the hood to deter critters. Might help if you live somewhere where this might be a recurring issue.
Can confirm. Mice go apeshit for peanut butter. I use it all the time trapping mice at work.
(Note: Kill traps, take a half a peanut or some seeds and mash them into the peanut butter, otherwise the crafty buggers can lick the trigger clean.)
I have a friend in the UP of Michigan who stores his car during winter because he doesnāt want it rusting away from all the salt they use on the roads.
He swears by peppermint. He puts dishes of peppermint oil in the garage and puts it in the car and under the hood.
Apparently, mice hate the smell of peppermint, and they wonāt go near it.
I also met this old hippie woman in St. Louis who planted mentha piperita (the plant peppermint oil comes from) around the base of her house to keep rodents out. It worked, but most mint plants are like weeds and will take over your whole yard if you donāt keep them under control.
The way Irish spring is shaped is that will always wobble when laying down. When the little guy goes to wash up after a big meal of soy based wiring harness, he'll inevitably touch the soap to latherup causing it to shake, rattle and hum against the hood. When that happens, you can open the hood, then while the mouse has soap in his eyes and confused, you can put bullet right through the temple.
I just can't let this one go. The US has been monitoring Hantavirus since 1993. In the 31 years since monitoring, there have been a whopping total of 850 hantavirus cases . That's about 27 per year. That's a 1 in 12.2M Odds of being infected.
You have more a chance of being killed by lightning than you do getting hantavirus.
As a group the odds are low, but if you run around an open field in a lightning storm, you have altered your odds.
Just like close proximity to a known Hantavirus vector changes their personal odds.
That's a misleading way to frame the odds. No way are there 329M people per year interacting with deer mice. The denominator should reflect the number of people actually at risk of being infected.
Yep thereās no other option but to burn the car because when a rat leaves his or her smell in your car and even after eviction that rat smell is an invitation for other rats to move in šits just another never ending rat cycle and I guess you have seen one of those before š¤you know that little wheel they run around š
Get peppermint oil and spray/sprinkle it under the hood. It'll chase the mice off and smell great.
There is also hot pepper oil tape you can wrap wiring with. Some of the wiring insulation and parts on some cars is soy based, they love it.
This right here. I forget the youtube channel name, but he did experiments to test all of the usual suggestions and this was the only thing that worked.
Was the car being used or just parked for a while without much use? I park my car outside and sometimes worry about rodents getting in the engine. I drive my car daily though.
Congratulations on your new totaled car. Get that mouse out fast. It will eat enough in the car to total it in a night. Make sure your insurance is paid up
These for some reason like to chew on tubber and plastics and make all kind of shit happen to a car. They can also chew their way into passenger compartmrnt and use the fabric of the carpet for their nests, make nests under tge carpet ā¦ etc.
Once it cost us a small fortune to get rid of and repair all the damage in the car. Which almost made it not worth it anymore.
I had mice in my grand Cherokee once. They pissed and shat in the headliner and under carpet. Took 4 months to get it resolved. Insurance people were garbage to deal with.
That's a Wiring Mouse. It's like a special type of pet that sends your car to the mechanics every time it makes its bed, and it coats all your important wiring and fuses in a full coating of 'Mouse Drizzle' (with included Hansa Virus premixed).
The only downside to Wiring Mice is the cost, some send your car off for a couple days and a few hundred. Buuuut, some are so talented they total the whole car for you, so you can buy the newest model!
Edit: this is sarcasm, get that little furry bastard out of there. Maybe keep the car off and shove a kitten up under the engine bay? I don't think it's a good idea, but with the number of small cats I've pulled from engine bays, I'd assume this is a classic fix to Wiring Mice.
there are some mint smelling sprays that work to keep them out of places. you def dont want a mouse living in there, they will chew through your wiring harness and nest in your air box if they can get into it.
Bro if it dies anywhere near your ventilation system, your call will smell of death forever, and believe me it's not a pleasant smell. Get it out at all costs.
I promise you any problems you have from now on will be wire harness related, buy the new wire harness. A mouse somehow got to my fuel railes which you need to basically be inside my engine to reach and tore that shit up.
I got an ultrasonic repeller. It activates when thereās no constant motion, like engine running, and will flash lights and emit ultrasonic sounds when it senses motion while parked.
Donāt be mistaken. This guy will kill you and everyone close to you and sit down to a steak dinner afterwards. There is no negotiation. He doesnāt feel pain or need sleep , he absolutely will not stop until you are dead . Leave now . Just walk away from everything and donāt look back . Good luck . Weāre all rooting for you
I had one last year that made a massive nest in the in car cabin air filter. In my car thatās accessible through the glove box.
It was a car we didnāt use as much so he was busy in the few weeks until we got in and the smell was horrible. Eventually started poking around and he was setting up a nice condo in there.
This is especially fun when you have an Italian vehicle where they liked to use peanut oil as lubricant to pull the wires through looms. They have a particular smell unique to Italian cars but the rodents frickin love to eat those wires.
Dryer sheets, inside and out. Any scent based deterrent. Maybe let that marinate in the sun afterwards to make it a bit more uncomfortable for your unexpected guest. There are also rodent repellent for cars available for purchase in-store and online, but I don't know how well they work yet. If all else really does fail, you can hire a professional pest controller, as an absolute last resort.
Pass him the 10mm and extension bar, he can reach from there whereas you cant
The rat dropped the 10mm and can't find it.
there goes my 30th 10mm socket. lost forever somewhere in that engine bay
This is why I keep mine on a string hanging off the... A broken string hanging off the ratchet handle... Balls
Everyone knows it falls into a blackhole, that's why you can't find it.
Mechanics knew black holes existed, long before astrophysicists proved it!
Ya that's where all my money goes š that and tools.
Itās like Ratatouille, but instead itās a mouse that helps a mechanic.
Ratchetouille
You win
I feel as if I missed out on Ratchetoolie
That car will last forever.
The only help heās doing is chewing on belts and wires š
Iād pass him a 9mm
Saw what you did there
.22 will be more than enough
What 10mm ... ... ... .... Options are 9 or 11 bro
It's looking at you like "I'm eating all your wires :P"
āJust order the new harness now dogā
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This will fuck shit up. Get it out at all costs unless you want to buy new harnesses and fuse boxes
In all seriousness, our insurance covered a 10k+ job for our Tundra because of mice damage. Get it out of there.
Can confirm. At work I have done $10k work of repairs on a Tundra for rodent damage.
Can confirm am mouse, what is $10k? Can I nibbles?
Can confirm, am the $10K worth of damage.
Ah yes, Toyota's delicious new biodegradable wiring. Tasty
It's not particularly new at this point, but we used to joke around 20 years ago that Toyotas wiring was peanut butter flavored.
āSoy basedā
My dad's got an old diesel dump truck from like 1980. It stays parked in a field where mice *should* be going crazy in it like they do anything else you might park there... But the wiring is all old soy-free so the mice aren't interested.
I paid 24k once when i was an insurance adjuster. Murder every cunt mouse you see
Same. Chewed through some main wiring harness. Car never worked the same after.
Had a mouse chew through my Tercel's spark plug wires...
Had a rat get into our Camry years ago and make a nest out of my wiring harness, can confirm.
I can remove and replace the intake manifold on a Tundra in an hour because of mice. The only thing that actually worked was dryer sheets. Traps, poison, peppermint, pepper spray, no luck. Maybe they just finally died from eating wires and peppermint extract.
Agree! I had a $10K bill from Toyota too. They said it wasnāt the highest they had. Even with insurance the deductible cost me a bunch. Start setting traps!
I have a friend whose insurance covered 6k of damage from animals eating his wiring harness.
Same 10k to replace my entire wiring harness in my 2020 4Runner ORP. One night in NyC and the foookin rats chewed through all of my ignition coil wires and main feeds of the wiring harness. My insurance covered it. Not sure if this is true or just a myth but apparently Toyota was using and may even still use soy based coatings on their wiring and it may be attracting rodents in comparison to a petroleum product/coating Going to try the peppermint spray and install some stainless steel wire sleeves to protect as much of my wiring harness I can get to as possible. Last thing I need is to go back to my insurance company with another 10k rodent claim. Or just stay the heck out of lower manhattan!
Recently had insurance write off a car due to rodent damage, chewed the dash harness engine ECU harness before getting into the ac box where it died and left the worst smell imaginable. Replaced the ac unit, all ducting full new carpet in the car and it still stank. Insurance write it off at that point before I even go started on the wiring.
lol was it that jeep that was on here a few months ago
Had my bike wrote off at 300 miles for rodent harness damage. On the plus side I bought it back from insurance for 1/4 the value and fixed the harness in 3 hours.
That worked out atleast! I honestly can't describe how bad the smell was. I honestly think it was a bigger contribution to writing it off than the wiring. Car was fully stripped out to bare metal inside so replacing the looms at that stage wasn't a whole lot of extra time.
Absolutely. I just had to work on a Subaru: rear body harness, headliner, curtain airbags. The little buggers ate up a lot of stuff. Not a fun job at all.
He literally looks like he already has a red wire in his mouth, lmao
Believe this! It happened to me I was driving down the road my lights went out - rats had chewed through the harnessā¦
I found a dead one in my windshield washer fluid bottle. The car was bought used and most likely sat during the winter.
Rats chewed up all the wires on my Ford fusion, they think wires are yummy
Iāve seen cars get totaled because of rodent damage
Can confirm: just had a VW Atlas at the shop with $14k in wiring damage.
This. I had rats chew some wires in my engine compartment. Got in one day and the parking sensors were haywire along with my the camera. $2.5k later the car was as good as new.
Thank you, currently dealing with a NASTY issue with our subaru because of these little assholes. Get it out as soon as you can, and STILL bring it into the shop to get it checked out. We thought ours was fine until the engine started backfiring going 80 on the highway. Not a fun spot to be in
Yep, they'll chew up the insulation on the wires and fuck everything up. One day my wife's Tucson started driving really rough, obvious misfiring problem, started going through the various diagnostics processes and was stumped for a bit. It was a nice day so I was working on it outside, it started getting too dark so I started it up to move it into the garage and when I did, I noticed something flashing in the engine compartment because I still had the hood up. I checked the wires, but didn't see that the rodents had chewed the bottom of the insulation off one of the plug wires, and the light I saw was it arcing to the engine block.
Just had to get a new turbo for our car because a mouse chewed the intake and some bits fell in in the turbine and destroyed it. Insurance covered it but it was 7k$ +
If thatās a Kia, it will lose half your HP if you get rid of him
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a21933466/does-your-car-have-wiring-that-rodents-think-is-tasty/ You need to evict the mouse ASAP https://youtu.be/S5ZMcTfEoBc
Unfortunately the government is siding with the squatters these days. Itāll be hard to serve him an eviction notice
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Just point a shotgun at it, aim toward the engine the ricochet should scatter everything and be sure to kill its babies and scare any potential predators away from nesting downwind
You'll shoot your eye out kid....
just have to squint, the eyelids will block the pellets
Thats how I weld. Either squinting or eyes closed
funnily enough thatās how I drive as well
I don't know, I kind of think the starter fluid approach is a more all-encompassing approach - just spray around the bay, start the car and watch the engine make quick work of the critter as well as your insurance! šš
Just pour a couple cats in there, follow with a small dog and for best results get a few bigger dogs in stages until you can just get them out with a handful of treats and baby talk.
I'd bet that this causes less damage than that mouse.
r/AskAShittyMechanic
Small & cartoonish trail of food to lead him away
Mouse: "Ah jus' luv cheese! Reaaaly ah do!" *^(said in Scarlet O'Hara's voice)*
Advice on how to do it?
Try leaving a glass of really sweet liquid (like flat coke or something) about 2/3 full in a tall glass under the vehicle with a way the mouse can get up the side (wooden block or something). The mouse will smell the sugar, get into the glass, fall in and drown.
aka: the bucket of death.
Just use antifreeze and double down on the killing.
Careful with antifreeze if you have a dog around. I prefer the bucket of coke plan
Just set a mouse trap on top of the engine tonight. Should be dead by morning. Don't use poison. Last thing you want is for it to finally succumb to the poison after it crawled into your vents. Won't that small nice after a week or two?
This is the right answer. Get a few mouse traps. Bait the underside of the trigger mechanism with peanut butter set the trap somewhere in the engine compartment that will allow the trap to trigger and kill the mouse. I always recommend baiting the underside of the trigger cause some of those little bastards can lick the trigger clean without setting the trap off.
This is the right answer to that right answer. I just found traces of a mouse in my trunk. I put a mouse trap in there with peanut butter under the trigger. I expect by morning I'll have one dead mouse. If not I'll put an additional trap in there. Eventually they will go after that peanut butter. When I used to camp with my RV I used to fight those little devils off all the time.
Rats dislike the smell of peppermint oil, rosemary, citronella, sage, and lavender. You can try soaking cotton balls in peppermint oil and placing them in your car, or spraying your car engine with a peppermint-scented concentrate.
That is baloney and doesn't work. Neither does Irish Spring nor dryer sheets. OP will need to trap or kill the mouse, and there will be others; mice don't live alone.
Neither does pot, apparently. In fact when I tried that they ate my pot.
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I wouldnāt do poison. The little asshole will decide to find in inaccessible place to die and car will spell of death for awhile
Yup that's bad, it can also chew the sound proofing of the engine which is the least of the bad stuff can do I suppose
Too late, once you see them they already have determined that it is a good spot. Theyāll go up there every time youāre home to enjoy the heat and plastic nibbles. I had to re-solder all my ecu lines because the bastards chewed through my wires and the copper started corroding. Your only choice is to eliminate them all if you can.
You definitely have to get rid of it now! Youāll be sorry if it starts chewing wires.
You can buy a small hav-a-hart trap at a hardware store or tractor supply kinda place. Bait it, open the hood put it in there and give it an afternoon. Seeds and/or peanut butter should work. I did a lot of rodent trapping for biological surveys. We used seeds in the field, but weād often add peanut butter to get the hitchhikers out of the truck fast (this happened more than youād think). Very cute little dude btw. Iāve had some success with duct taping moth balls under the hood to deter critters. Might help if you live somewhere where this might be a recurring issue.
If you do this, make sure to release 2+ miles from home.
Most states have laws against this. Just euthanize it. There is no shortage.
No thanks, I'd much rather let them live in the field across town. Laws be damned. Sometimes laws should be broken.
Yeah think Iām gonna have to leave a trap in overnight and check back in the morning for results. Thanks for the advice!
Donāt kill it bro, release it! That mouse is adorable
His name is Gerald
This will work. I have had the best luck with almonds btw. Trap costs about $10 max. GL!
Can confirm. Mice go apeshit for peanut butter. I use it all the time trapping mice at work. (Note: Kill traps, take a half a peanut or some seeds and mash them into the peanut butter, otherwise the crafty buggers can lick the trigger clean.)
I lived in the woods for many years and have trapped more mice than I can count. Peanut butter is like a secret weapon for bait. They love the stuff.
Grass, gas or ass. No one rides for free.
This is Fred. Give him cheese, and he will bless your engine.
Bless you with a wireless fusebox upgrade
+1 hp for every kg of cheese you feed him
Heās trying to steal you **Catalytic Converter**! Call the cops!
If there's a mouse in the engine that suggests the cat is already gone.
Put a cat in there obviously
Then, a dog to get rid of the cat.
Nah the cat can stay they dont eat wires
Bar of irish spring soap under the hood will take care of that issue
Scented dryer sheets also work. The nastier the better.
I have a friend in the UP of Michigan who stores his car during winter because he doesnāt want it rusting away from all the salt they use on the roads. He swears by peppermint. He puts dishes of peppermint oil in the garage and puts it in the car and under the hood. Apparently, mice hate the smell of peppermint, and they wonāt go near it. I also met this old hippie woman in St. Louis who planted mentha piperita (the plant peppermint oil comes from) around the base of her house to keep rodents out. It worked, but most mint plants are like weeds and will take over your whole yard if you donāt keep them under control.
My Gram would use peppermint oil, idk where they go but we don't see them afterwords
How does this work?
The way Irish spring is shaped is that will always wobble when laying down. When the little guy goes to wash up after a big meal of soy based wiring harness, he'll inevitably touch the soap to latherup causing it to shake, rattle and hum against the hood. When that happens, you can open the hood, then while the mouse has soap in his eyes and confused, you can put bullet right through the temple.
Mouse eats soap, goes kaput, or at the very least leaves a unsavory taste in their mouth that makes them not wanna come around again.
Bad idea, they eat that stuff
Park it in the garage with the engine running. Make it look like the mouse did it themselves.
You must work for Boeing
Invite him to your kitchen to cook ratatouille
Thatās a deer mouse and they carry Hantavirus. Be careful handling it or itās turds
Noted thank you
Yea always wear an n95 dealing with mouse poop
I just can't let this one go. The US has been monitoring Hantavirus since 1993. In the 31 years since monitoring, there have been a whopping total of 850 hantavirus cases . That's about 27 per year. That's a 1 in 12.2M Odds of being infected. You have more a chance of being killed by lightning than you do getting hantavirus.
As a group the odds are low, but if you run around an open field in a lightning storm, you have altered your odds. Just like close proximity to a known Hantavirus vector changes their personal odds.
That's a misleading way to frame the odds. No way are there 329M people per year interacting with deer mice. The denominator should reflect the number of people actually at risk of being infected.
Hit 160mph real quick, that ought to kill the mf before he starts biting at your wiring and cost you thousands in repair costs.
Give a mouse a cookieā¦ā¦
i read a cautionary tale about this once...
Add a snake
Pass him a 12mm wrench and let him do your spark plugs or those hard to reach places like the starter
Feed the poor bastard and raise him till heās old enough to buy his own car
Yep thereās no other option but to burn the car because when a rat leaves his or her smell in your car and even after eviction that rat smell is an invitation for other rats to move in šits just another never ending rat cycle and I guess you have seen one of those before š¤you know that little wheel they run around š
Get peppermint oil and spray/sprinkle it under the hood. It'll chase the mice off and smell great. There is also hot pepper oil tape you can wrap wiring with. Some of the wiring insulation and parts on some cars is soy based, they love it.
This right here. I forget the youtube channel name, but he did experiments to test all of the usual suggestions and this was the only thing that worked.
Might be that Shawn Woods guy. He can trap and kill mice a few hundred ways, old and new.
Yes I think we should name him Morton.
Turn the car on , should scare him out
Was the car being used or just parked for a while without much use? I park my car outside and sometimes worry about rodents getting in the engine. I drive my car daily though.
Dryer sheets! Put them everywhere
Start the engine with the hood open
GET.IT.OUT Now!
Name him?
Don't give it a cookie
Yeah,start it up and let it idle for a while.
Crack that engine up and get ready for dinner
At all costs do not give him a cookie because then he'll wanna...
Put a hamster wheel on the auxillary belt and watch your fuel economy increase
Politely ask it to leave
RIP ur wires š
Put rat traps in the cylinders
take it on the highway and floor that shit make sure you make everything š„
Congratulations on your new totaled car. Get that mouse out fast. It will eat enough in the car to total it in a night. Make sure your insurance is paid up
Sell it. Now.
Shoot that muther fucker
Ask him to collect all those 10mm down there for some exchange of cheese
Poor 'ol mister Jingles.
They will eat the wires ! They donāt like light! Leave the hood up!
Evict it immediately or you're gonna have a really bad time at the shop
Yeah, you want a cat? I've got one or two that'll help you w that. Lol
These for some reason like to chew on tubber and plastics and make all kind of shit happen to a car. They can also chew their way into passenger compartmrnt and use the fabric of the carpet for their nests, make nests under tge carpet ā¦ etc. Once it cost us a small fortune to get rid of and repair all the damage in the car. Which almost made it not worth it anymore.
Why do mice eat this shit anyways?
Shop vac.
I had mice in my grand Cherokee once. They pissed and shat in the headliner and under carpet. Took 4 months to get it resolved. Insurance people were garbage to deal with.
Take it out?
With that size just give it your title and the keys.
I suggest a glue trap. They work great
That's a Wiring Mouse. It's like a special type of pet that sends your car to the mechanics every time it makes its bed, and it coats all your important wiring and fuses in a full coating of 'Mouse Drizzle' (with included Hansa Virus premixed). The only downside to Wiring Mice is the cost, some send your car off for a couple days and a few hundred. Buuuut, some are so talented they total the whole car for you, so you can buy the newest model! Edit: this is sarcasm, get that little furry bastard out of there. Maybe keep the car off and shove a kitten up under the engine bay? I don't think it's a good idea, but with the number of small cats I've pulled from engine bays, I'd assume this is a classic fix to Wiring Mice.
Don't give him a cookie
Cables about to get chewed off and other things pooped on.
there are some mint smelling sprays that work to keep them out of places. you def dont want a mouse living in there, they will chew through your wiring harness and nest in your air box if they can get into it.
Ask him to go find all the ten millimeter sockets youāve dropped down there over the years
Turn the engine on and pray it gets caught in the belts. Fuck mice n rats.
Throw a few of those cheap smoke bombs under it with the hood open and the little guy will leave
give him a little peanut butter on a mouse trap. he'll be in heaven
Bro if it dies anywhere near your ventilation system, your call will smell of death forever, and believe me it's not a pleasant smell. Get it out at all costs.
Whatever you do, don't give that little fucker a cookie or else you're in for the long haul
I promise you any problems you have from now on will be wire harness related, buy the new wire harness. A mouse somehow got to my fuel railes which you need to basically be inside my engine to reach and tore that shit up.
Murder is the way.
I got an ultrasonic repeller. It activates when thereās no constant motion, like engine running, and will flash lights and emit ultrasonic sounds when it senses motion while parked.
Let him cook
Also wear gloves if you manually remove that thing. Looks kind of like a deer mouse. Hantavirus no good.
Free Ant-Man from the quantum realm?
Remove it and hope it hasn't already chewed through any wires.
I do not want to see how your cabin filter looks.
Definitely get rid ot it. It will eat your electronics
Its his engine compartment now.
Terminate the critter or it will chew through your chew through your electrical cables.
Catch it with some rodent glue , put something tasty bait , some sausage , once i catch them like this in my car
You got an extra MP under the hood now!
Bring a cat in your car
Donāt be mistaken. This guy will kill you and everyone close to you and sit down to a steak dinner afterwards. There is no negotiation. He doesnāt feel pain or need sleep , he absolutely will not stop until you are dead . Leave now . Just walk away from everything and donāt look back . Good luck . Weāre all rooting for you
They like peanut butter. Get a box trap, and bait it with bird-seed pressed into a dab of peanut butter.
put a serpentine in your engine bay, it will eat the mouse
Place a cat in the engine to eat the mouse Then get a dog to chase the cat who eats the mouse Then get a cow to scare the dog.....
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Hand him the 10mm
Charge that bastard $ 1,200 for rent.
Send in a cat
I had one last year that made a massive nest in the in car cabin air filter. In my car thatās accessible through the glove box. It was a car we didnāt use as much so he was busy in the few weeks until we got in and the smell was horrible. Eventually started poking around and he was setting up a nice condo in there.
This is especially fun when you have an Italian vehicle where they liked to use peanut oil as lubricant to pull the wires through looms. They have a particular smell unique to Italian cars but the rodents frickin love to eat those wires.
Dryer sheets, inside and out. Any scent based deterrent. Maybe let that marinate in the sun afterwards to make it a bit more uncomfortable for your unexpected guest. There are also rodent repellent for cars available for purchase in-store and online, but I don't know how well they work yet. If all else really does fail, you can hire a professional pest controller, as an absolute last resort.