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I picked up a Street Glide a couple of yrs ago from a guy who stored it in his barn. Lucky me i brought home 2 mice that lived in the bike. Luckily they do much damage and i got them. 1st time i released them. They came back and were not so lucky the 2nd time...
No damage to my car (car is at the shop now to double check but they said no issues) but killed a few on sticky traps I set in the car. I live in the country / very outer suburbs.
Have other traps and noise plug things also but bought this: http://carcapsule.com/ , which I read should keep the mice out completely. My car is going in this when it returns, pic:
4" of water in the bottom, with anti-freeze if it gets cold.
Mouse spa.
Carnival ride? Would require admission or a ticket. I don't have time for that.
So what entices the mouse to go up the ramp and into the fun house?
I normally run a charger some but w/ my battery cut off (race car) I don't use it much. That said, I haven't really thought about it but there is a hole for the fan cord at the rear / bottom so I could probably run it through there.
I know - believe me I had to seal my entire (log home) house for stink bugs and they can get through much smaller spaces. Garage is not sealed though, really it needs to be completely renovated which is still a ways down on the list.
The hole for the cord on the bottom by about a foot I guess so (virtually) no way for a mouse to get to that as the weight of the bubble is on it. I've had this thing inflated for about 2 weeks now and no sign of them in it yet - or stink bugs which I've seen on it but not in it.
I found droppings for years in my jag v12 engine bay, would clean them out, and they would reappear. cannot believe that I never found one wire damaged, and there is a spaghetti factory around that engine. now I am concerned for the Porsche, maybe the german wire insulation tastes better.
i'll put a few sticky traps around the periphery of garage interior and see what they catch. besides waterbugs and crickets
an aside for anyone with older British cars:
why do the British drink warm beer?
because they have Lucas refrigerators
Thanks for the warm thoughts everyone. I bought the perfect car with the perfect pedigree and perfect ppi etc. If it shows up on a carfax, so be it....its all properly documented and repaired at porsche.
Big thanks to Rusnak Thousand Oaks and Master Tech M. Leach.
They hit my Range Rover twice a few months ago but it was an easy fix....cost me nothing, just an hour or two and some solder.
But yea...They like British and German cars hahah, the Ferrari leaves a bad taste I guess.
Sorry about the typos in my first post, as it was late.
One of our neighbors has a couple of cats and I see them out hunting constantly. Not a rodent in sight, even with fruit trees and grape vines nearby. I did catch one of the cats on the spyder once and lets just say it hasn't happened since. Fortunately no scratches. I'm happy to have them around.
I'm glad insurance covered the damage and you're back on the road, that's all that matters.
Had a mouse nest in my Harley Electra Glide Classic a few years ago in Maryland...luckily no harm was done and the nest was discovered during a service. Here in the tropics a pesky mouse kept chewing through rubber hoses in our apartment building garage. It took a liking to the tubing for our Nissan Patrol's (aka Armda now in the US) winshield washer fluid reservoir, chewing it up 3 times. And it did the same to some neighbors' cars. For some reason it liked Japanese food, not German. Rat poisoning ended the chewing spree.
09-23-2016, 12:25 PM
