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I hate mice!!! Any advice???
WARNING: Venting and anger ahead...
I went to fire up my camaro today that has been sitting since spring... and the damn thing has been infested with mice!! Mice in the exhaust, in the interior (damn thing smells like mouse sh#t! Car ran like total crap, idling at 3300, wouldn't idle down at all, even after I let it warm up, tried giving it a kick of throttle, and as I do this, I notice little field mice running around in my car! After which I look back to see white smoking coming out of the exhaust , sure to be, there were mouse nests in there burning away! GRRR!! So I shut it off, knowing full well the fire risk I was running. Does anyone know a good method to rid myself of this horrible turn of events?? I happen to like the car, it has a good personality. I cleaned it out of all items in there, leaving only a few aftermarket metal parts in the cargo area. Then I proceeded to soak the carpets with cleaner and left moth balls in there hoping to keep more rodents away... My real concern is the exhaust. It's a 3" flowmaster system, welded together. (Bought it like that). Should I just start it and let the nests burn? Do it little by little every day until I can blow it all out in ash form??? HELP!!!!!!!!!! -Sz
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I find mouse nests in the airbox of my Jeep if it sits for a couple weeks. Blocks up the intake really good and obviously makes it run very poorly. You might want to check that, too.
I had a nest in the muffler of my old pickup once, and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't start. It finally fired up and blew chunks of mouse nest all the garage with a significant bang. Scared the crap out of me.
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A mouse chewed up my fuel injector wiring a few months ago... and it happened to chew it up right under my exhaust manifold too. That was a pain in the ass. Anyway, check to make sure all of your cylinders are firing.
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Get a dog or even a cat?
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Better yet, put a snake in there.
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Just kidding btw.
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piper
guess you could learn how to blow/play a pipe.
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in my area
because of the desert area we have actual
pack-rats. they love to nest under your hood and eat the insulation off your wires....
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re: oh i forgot
yeah, i'm not a fan of rodents. i remember waking up to smoke as a kid (maybe of 6 years) and waking up my parents to get out of the house. my parents took me and my sister to the neighbors and called the fire department. our house burned down because a squirrel in the attic was chewing on the insulated power wires, electrocuted himself, and set the house on fire. we had a smoke detector, but i guess the battery was out. i guess i was the human smoke detector .
hmm..which reminds me i have a nest in the engine bay of my new svx. forgot to clean it out. guess the squirrels up north likes to make homes in the nice warm engine bays. |
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Re: I hate mice!!! Any advice???
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I would say run the car and burn out the exhaust. After all the exhaust is used to heat inside and out. Use some care and common sense.
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Trevor, New Zealand. As a child, on cold mornings I gladly stood in cowpats to warm my bare feet, but I detest bull$hit! |
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Re: re: oh i forgot
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6 is far too young to be smoking!!!!
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Re: Re: I hate mice!!! Any advice???
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okay, then Id say get a cat ! then to get rid of the cat, ....get a dog, to rid the dog, ......a mountain lion! it would be like Wild Kingdom in your garage! Or you could get a humane moustrap Pull the car outta the garage, throw some jackstands under it and yank out the nest, meese and all
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My mom will forever live in me and never be forgotten, one day Ill see her again CLICK the LINK below to Visit the SVX Store: http://www.planetsvx.com http://www.motorsportwarehouse.com/svx/sig2.jpg Cars in the garage: 92 Toyota Soarer Single Turbo JDM RHD 70 Boss 302 Mustang 39k original miles 97 SVX Lsi 92 Liquid Silver Murano-ized (1st of its kind) 71 Cougar Xr7 Conv 351c 4v 4spd 69 SS Camaro 350 71 Nissan RHD Fairlady Z 70 Stang Fastback 70 Amc AMX 390 71 240z 89 Conquest TSi w/ 5.0 v8 swap 84 Mustang GT Turbo conv "good, if it bleeds, we can kill it ....." |
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Cats
Does a Camaro not have a CAT
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Trevor, New Zealand. As a child, on cold mornings I gladly stood in cowpats to warm my bare feet, but I detest bull$hit! |
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"I know a mouse, he lives in my house, I don't know why I call him Gerald........" - Syd Barratt, "Bike", Pink Floyd.
Yeah, ok Syd, whatever you say.......
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LOL I should've known I'd get 80% humor and sarcasm. I think I'll go along with running it and carefully watching the car... I'm really thinking of doing an oil change on it first, oil that has sat for a while isn't too good for a motor wanting to idle at more than half it's redline. Besides, it's a bit darker than I'd like.
The other paranoia is what could they have possibly chewed through that I'm not aware of... oh well, that's life. Thanks everyone! Even for the humor, it made me feel a bit better about the whole thing. I was so aggravated that I was considering a mouse-stomping contest... -Sz
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