Mice in engine
Dec 28, 2017 18:59:15 #
Opened the hood yesterday to add washer fluid and found this ball of insulation. Anyone have a solution? I was told to not feed the birds so near the car. It is not garaged.
Dec 28, 2017 19:05:14 #
one shot wrote:
Opened the hood yesterday to add washer fluid and found this ball of insulation. Anyone have a solution? I was told to not feed the birds so near the car. It is not garaged.
Rats or mice.
Dec 28, 2017 19:52:10 #
Try taping two or three strips of Bounce to the underside of the hood. Apparently the small critters dislike the smell. Otherwise they are liable to chew your wiring and create havoc.
Dec 28, 2017 20:25:25 #
CatMarley wrote:
Rats or mice.
Mice, I assume. I live in the county and have never seen a rat here. Been in the house almost 40 years.
Dec 28, 2017 20:27:47 #
Straight Shooter wrote:
Try taping two or three strips of Bounce to the underside of the hood. Apparently the small critters dislike the smell. Otherwise they are liable to chew your wiring and create havoc.
Thank you. That sounds like a good idea. Confidentiality, I don't like the smell either!
Dec 28, 2017 22:05:14 #
Dec 29, 2017 00:50:47 #
My wife was hearing strange noises coming from the engine compartment of her car and brought it to the auto shop. The found a squirrels nest with baby squirrels tucked in somewhere underneath and called animal control to come and remove them.
Dec 29, 2017 05:28:40 #
Straight Shooter wrote:
Try taping two or three strips of Bounce to the underside of the hood. Apparently the small critters dislike the smell. Otherwise they are liable to chew your wiring and create havoc.
I wish I'd known that trick years ago. We got my daughter a used 2001 Jeep Cherokee to use for college. When at home, however, something got in her engine area and ate electrical wiring.....twice!! Cost us $600 to repair each time. Apparently the wiring in that model was susceptible while later models weren't.
Dec 29, 2017 06:20:30 #
We recently had a dead-animal smell in the garage. Couldn't find a source. After two days I realized that it was noly when one of the cars was in the garage - and sure enough, we found a nest in the engine compartment. It was a bad choice of a nesting spot, that's for sure.
Dec 29, 2017 07:39:54 #
Got any chipmunks? They loved the air cleaner housing on my wife's car.
Dec 29, 2017 07:49:20 #
When we lived in Tucson, the problem was caused by pack rats. As mentioned, dryer strips (Bounce, etc.) seemed to be the solution. Whenever we left for several weeks, I would deploy nearly a while box - engine, interior, trunk.
Dec 29, 2017 08:33:46 #
one shot wrote:
Opened the hood yesterday to add washer fluid and found this ball of insulation. Anyone have a solution? I was told to not feed the birds so near the car. It is not garaged.
Mothballs. We have a house in NH. We are not there all the time. Some mice or chipmunks were building nests and over coffee, at the general store, I was told to scatter mothballs around. Seems to work.
Dec 29, 2017 08:57:34 #
I had the same problem, but in my case they made a home behind the dashboard. I started smelling something like "wet dog" shortly after bringing my Ford Fusion home. I searched Ford sites and Google and could find an answer. The dealer changed the air filter both the car's and the a/c filter and that never worked.
It cost me $300 to fix the damage. I started putting mothballs in the engine compartment and plugged in a mouse/rat eliminator in the wall outlet in the garage. I have no ideas if they really found there way in my garage or in the field where the car was stored before I bought I. But, I try to be cautious now.
It cost me $300 to fix the damage. I started putting mothballs in the engine compartment and plugged in a mouse/rat eliminator in the wall outlet in the garage. I have no ideas if they really found there way in my garage or in the field where the car was stored before I bought I. But, I try to be cautious now.
Dec 29, 2017 09:27:28 #
I mechanic told me a couple of years ago when I had a rodent chew the wires to my ABS harness in the back of my Honda Civic..... mind you this was a lease vehicle so I was very upset. He informed me that in years past the wiring was wrapped with an oil based product which was environmentally hazardous. So the automotive industry switched from oil based to soy-based, and rodents of all kinds love it. I wrote a letter of complaint to the company feeling if this is the case they should find a better protective wrap to go Over these soy-based wires so they are not so vulnerable.
Dec 29, 2017 10:03:05 #
Peppermint oil. My dealer (Hyundai) recommended a spray that Walmart sells that has a STRONG peppermint smell. We had one rat get in under our car by jumping on the tires to get access - spray your tires as well as the engine. That one rat arranged his own decapitation but in the process broke the serpentine belt. Not a cheap thing to replace.
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