MICE !!!

bugnout · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 2:18 pm

Just got off the phone with a local shop, when I told him I had a CRD he had this sad story to relate:

He has a friend that has a CRD. his friend lives out in the country, He had to go on a trip for a couple of weeks so he parked his CRD in the barn. When he got back the CRD wouldn't start. He had it towed to the dealer where investigation revealed that mice eat part way thru the wiring harness near the firewall.

Dealer repaired and told the guy that the wiriing harness for the CRD were assembled using peanut oil as a lubricant. :shock:

Well folks check under your hood regularly, there maybe racoons, possums and ferrets eying your ride for a meal.

I'm thinkin DC should have used KY on our KJs instead of turning the CRD into a rodent PB&J

JJsTJ · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 2:26 pm

DZL_LOU · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 2:50 pm

Yes,
I had an issue with this in the fall when the rodents came out of the fields (cornfields and soybean fields) as the fields were being harvested.
I had a rodent come in and eat through my transmission wiring harness and that cost me $750 for a repair.

MOSFET · **Joined:** Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:40 pm **Posts:** 295

This problem effects Dodge and Chevy as well. We had both vehicles chewed on by mice. Again, in a rural area in upstate NY.

gmctd · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:29 pm

KY? Man, we'd really be screwed then..............................

Jeger · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:27 pm

I guess its about time for another bout with the wonderfull world of peanuts..... :lol:

gmctd · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:48 pm

I have an '88 Mitsubishi Starion, purchased thru InsSalvg with one woodsman's axe chop in every body panel - I pulled the anemic 4cyl and installed an '87 Buick Grand National turbocharged V6, ECM and all, prior to having the bodywork done, just in case the installation turned out to be not viable - it was, but it was uninsurable until the body was repaired, so I parked it in the pasture for a while - went out for a look a couple winters later, to find bits and pieces of wiring around and under it - popped the hood to find that it was a popular rodent McDonald's - shredded wires everywhere - and the Starion had only 18k orig miles on it when I started the conversion, so it had been pristine - alas! - there it sits today, forlorn and de-wired - hopefully, the copper wire shards will puncture their little bowstidge bowels, and they'll die feeling only a portion of the agony I experienced upon first sight of that carnage..................

bugnout · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:48 pm

He had a suggestion to prevent the mice from chowing down.

Put together little bags of moth balls using the toe of a womans stocking, then hang these little bags under the car near the wiring. :-)r

What we need to do is start breeding mice that are allergic to peanuts...

Pablo · **Joined:** Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:06 pm **Posts:** 1201

Haha! Another mod.. the RPM (Rodent Prevention Mod).

gmctd · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:08 pm

I'd get a lot more satisfaction if those mothballs were pulverized into medium-sized rocks, loaded into a 12-ga shell, and used to 'dust' the area around their quickly receding bodies.................

msilbernagel · **Posted:** Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:07 am

When I pulled the cover to clean the MAP sensor, there was a nice little rodent nest up against the firewall, constructed from the sound deadening material from the plastic engine cover... :roll:

Don't recall ever having rodent related vehicle issues before.. but hey, I live in the country!

Mark

BBB · **Posted:** Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:55 am

Same situation occured with the foam from under the engine sound cover with us. Mouse condo on top of the engine. Removed all the sound stuff including the under hood mat, engine cover and bottom engine mat..... Less black forest cake at the CRD dessert bar and now it sounds a little brighter

retmil46 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:03 am

Hmmm, might be handy to make a home for them in the center console or glovebox, keep a couple of them around.

That way, the next time you visit the dealership and they give you a hard time getting your CRD fixed, you can reach in the vehicle and grab one of the little critters and hand it to the service manager - show him that you really DO give a hairy rat's, errr..., "posterior", about your CRD. :lol:

Jim Friese · **Posted:** Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:59 pm

My problem was not a mouse but a possium, one of these critters chewed through my Wife's wiring harness on her 2005 dodge Durango to the tranny and it cost me 750 to repair. Hers sits on a cartport. I did manage to get the possium. :cry:

DZL_LOU · **Posted:** Sat Oct 06, 2007 1:02 pm

Jim Friese wrote:

My problem was not a mouse but a possium, one of these critters chewed through my Wife's wiring harness on her 2005 dodge Durango to the tranny and it cost me 750 to repair. Hers sits on a cartport. I did manage to get the possium. :cry:

See my post above, these rodents must LOVE to chomp on a tranny wiring harness! :lol:

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Sat Oct 06, 2007 1:37 pm

Harbor frieght sells a trap for about $10. So far we have managed to catch a raccoon, skunk, and an opossum, oh and our own cats.
(Still havent been able to catch neighbors cat)

Cheap insurance.

GilaMonster · **Posted:** Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:51 pm

I'm constantly plauged by pack rats. Once after rebuilding the head on a M3 I owned, pack rats chewed threw the knock sensors about a week later and it meant pulling the entire intake off to replace. I hate the bastages!!!
I've tried the moth-balls, but they didn work in my case. I generally trap with the old fashioned snapper traps. I've had to resort to sprinkling cayane pepper powder around the engine compartment to keep them away most of the time. One has to remember to hose out the engine area before working in the area.

I have no real solution, I had once found a device to stop Mardens (little ferret like rodent in Germany) from Germany, but the guy never took the time to sell me one. I has little pads that activated when the car was off to zap a rodent.

Even when I have to relocate a Gila Monster and I put them by a pack rat nest, they are only good for one rat and then they will not eat for weeks.

gmctd · **Posted:** Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:04 pm

Interesting stuff - this place gets more like wikipedia every day.....................

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:10 pm

They love all wiring. It's the plastic that they like. I have seen $450,000.00 motorhomes get chewed wires in a matter of a couple of days.

Terry

KJ79 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:42 am

When I changed cleaned the MAP sensor the other day, I noticed that a adult rat was fried on top of the engine on the passenger side. It must have been there for a while as it was falling apart in a million pieces as I tried to extract it. Could not find any damaged wiring luckily though.

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