Any other country dwellers with Mice visiting your car !

[rswift]

Just been to top up the windscreen washer on my car, and noticed the tell tale sign of a handful of small nutshells, which mean that the mice have flocked to the warm engine bay for a late night snack. No other damage, this happens quite regularly, normally evidence of small nutshells etc. Once found a dinner plate full when changing shocks on an old Jag.

I have only ever seen one of the mice, on top of the engine, ... not sure who was the most surprised when I opened the bonnet.

Now we live next to open fields/orchard. I would rather the mice be outside than in the house.

Anyone got the same problem/solution ?

[redgriff500]

Yep I get it all the time.

I run many cars so some are always standing around for a few weeks / months.

Mouse poo anywhere from the seats, floor, engine bay or boot.

Went into my garage and they've eaten a hole in a plastic fuel funnel in the last few days.

Little gits eat holes in my leather seats last year - not one big hole but 2 in each front seat.

I don't like killing animals but now I put down poison everywhere.

(The green seed stuff so cats etc don't eat it)

[Tacagni]

Last year mice ate through the diesel return pipe and the hose for the washer bottle.

[pwrc]

We had mice living in the seats of the family scenic one year. Also heard of bats nesting in barn find cars. hilarious fun

[thinfourth2]

Little bds ate a packet of lockets i left on the passenger seat

Also its one of the reason that detailers should never ever buy that little house in the country

[redgriff500]

pwrc said:

Also heard of bats nesting in barn find cars. hilarious fun

My house had been empty for years before I bought it and had bats nesting behind the fascia.

When I replaced it I left them a hole to continue using but they moved out a few months later - shame as I loved watching them hunting insects in the evenings.

[JAHetfield]

Many, many moons ago I bought a BX Turbo without seeing it first (it was cheap). Upon delivery and lifting the bonnet, I found a nest of mice living on top of the manifold. Cue much power washing to remove the dung. I thought the problem was cured until I lifted the back seat and found another nest. They had all the foam chewed to pieces. Ended up scrapping the car as every time I got into it I felt dirty hand needed to shower afterwards.

[tomw2000]

Have not noticed mice anywhere near our cars.

But then we have 7 cats.....

I see a lot of mouse/shrew/rat/vole corpses though....

[NHK244V]

Once picked up a free mondeo TD non starter, i got it started but sucked the nest of mice that was in the air filter through the turbo and ruined the car, made a right mess of the turbo and sprayed red exhaust fumes out the back end

[McSam]

NHK244V said:

Once picked up a free mondeo TD non starter, i got it started but sucked the nest of mice that was in the air filter through the turbo and ruined the car, made a right mess of the turbo and sprayed red exhaust fumes out the back end

Oh, please tell me this is true, I shouldn't but

[marcosgt]

One spring I found all the paperwork in the Marcos' glovebox shredded and turned into a mouse nest!

Fortunately there was nothing important in there.

M.

[rswift]

Glad it's not just me .... we had squirrels living in the garage, but I left Radio 4 on very loudly for a few weeks & they seem to have left !

[thinfourth2]

Well set up some mouse traps over the weekend and managed to get 4 of the little sods in the micra

[rhinochopig]

Mice ate my car cover. I'm hoping Freddie Starr will come and eat my mice.

[Mr Gear]

My friend had his BMW 323 written off by mice a few years back. One of them nested in cambelt area apparently, and when the car was started, the inevitable happened.

[rhinochopig]

Mr Gear said:

My friend had his BMW 323 written off by mice a few years back. One of them nested in cambelt area apparently, and when the car was started, the inevitable happened.

Three lost their sight and another took a blow to head resulting in a penchant for wearing clogs?

[benjj]

Yep, get this a lot up in 't Dales.

The best/worst one was in an old Merc 420 SEL I bought to restore.

Being the legend that I am I put a winter survival bag in the boot well with the spare wheel - 12 pack of Mars bars, 1kg of salted peanuts, a dozen candles, large box of cooks matches, sealed packet of 4 cigarette lighters, blanket, gloves etc.

The little b4stards go in and had a right party. They scoffed all the tuck, ate all the paper packaging, ate half the rug, ate the cashmere lining of my expensive leather gloves and then shat everywhere!

[Johnboy Mac]

dibbers006 said:

Be really careful about this... they love wiring and a new loom or even anything brake related is very costly one way or another.

Yep, ever true. And if it's V6 or V8 the mice if possible like to nest in the engines valley and in the process damage any wiring located there.

[plasticpig]

I had to have a new injector harness fitted to my Jag XKR due to a mouse taking up residence. This was in a garage with sonic rodent repellers.

[NHK244V]

plasticpig said:

I had to have a new injector harness fitted to my Jag XKR due to a mouse taking up residence. This was in a garage with sonic rodent repellers.

but he probably wasn't a sonic rodent just a normal mouce[