[SEL] Very OT but need help

[Mark Shulaw]

Hi Curt,
  Take your car to the bad side of town and leave the keys in the ignition 
with a six pack of beer on the seat and when it goes away hope they destroy 
it and claim it on insurance. GRINNNN,,,,  Just kidding folks!!!!
The place I would start would be the heat box or plenum or blower housing.
But they could be in the head liner, dashboard, wheel well, heater ducts, 
under the carpet, who knows where. A mouse will nest anywhere. Keep tearing 
till you find them. You may have to entirely gut the car. Even after the 
carcasses are dried up when it gets damp out the car will always have an 
odd odor.
  Bad thing is once a mouse or a rat takes up residence its like a neon 
sign that flashes RODENT MOTEL HERE!. And odds are the proximity to the 
house had no influence on if the mouse came in. Its just fall.

                                  Good Luck,   Mark

At 06:52 AM 10/31/06, you wrote:
>We live on the farm and my wife parks her car just outside our back door most
>of the time.  Recently weve discovered that mice are some how getting into 
>the
>interior through the wheel wells and have taken up residence.  I set and
>trapped one mouse the other night and noticed that she has been nursing young.
>Since then they must of died some where in the heating ducts and has made the
>car almost unbareable for her to drive back in forth to work without gagging
>from the dead mouse smell.  I have already removed all four of the seats and
>most of the trunk compartment and did find much debrie and droppings but no
>actual nest.  Has anybody had this experience and how did you resolve the
>problem.  We are trying to avoid going to the dealer.  The car is a 2004
>Toyota Matrix.
>any and all advise would be appreciated.  Thankyou in advance.
>Curt & Becky Andree
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Mark & Christine Shulaw
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