Is it possible for a mouse to get in a 2003+ panther car? Didn't happen yet but wory

[Stranger in the Black Sedan]

Hi guys, I live out in the sticks and have started finding a few mouse poopies here and there in my attached garage where the MM lives. I have not caught anything yet and I am going to clear the whole garage out this weekend and put all my car stuff in locking plastic totes and see if I unearth anything along the way. I found a few turds on the MM engine around the injectors. Other than that no evidence of activity.

I would hope that there is no way a mouse could find its way inside the MM with it parked. Has anyone ever had a mouse somehow get into a newer Panther car? I have heard horror stories of a newer Honda, the pilot or one of those, where mice were able to get up through the AC condensate drain and then into the heater box.

No mousies in my car yet but am worried what would happen to my sanity if one ever got in. It would be a bad bad day.

[Blackened300a]

My Mother had a mouse get under the hood of her 2000 Continental. It gnawed through a few wires and caused lights to flicker and the ABS light to come on.

[Stranger in the Black Sedan]

Yeah I know that can happen, I've had that happen to my own cars. I am most worried about whether one can get into the interior. Wires can always be fixed. Pee'd in smell, never truly goes away.

[Pops]

I would do everything I could to get the mice out of there. They will cause untold amounts of damage chewing up wires. Plus the smell from the other deeds they do! We get cars in here that have had serious damage done to them! Remember the Mouse kills Cobra thread!

[Stranger in the Black Sedan]

Oh trust me I will empty the whole garage this weekend. I put like 10 traps in there last night but didn't catch anything yet. I have caught a lot of them in my detached garage off in the woods, but this means war now that they are up in my good garage. No I didn't see that thread.

[Jake Steel]

they can chew thru plastic totes.....put out traps EVERYWHERE, along the bottom of the floor,inside the car glue traps and the ol SNAP kind EVERYWHERE,DEAD MOUSE SMELL REAKS.....GOOD LUCK

[Aren Jay]

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[Joe Walsh]

My Mother had a mouse get under the hood of her 2000 Continental. It gnawed through a few wires and caused lights to flicker and the ABS light to come on.


LOL...

My Mom also had a mouse build a nest in her infrequently driven 1986 5.0 Mercury Cougar engine.
Went to do an oil change and saw the mess....WTF?

My memory fails me at this moment, but someone I know had 'pinkies' tumble out from under the dash onto their legs when they started driving their car!...:eek:
I've got to ask my brother who had this misfortunate occurence.

[bobsawyer7]

I have the same problem in my garage when it turns really cold. Here are a couple of ideas that I have been using which are pretty effective.
First get some diatomaceous earth from the hardware store(it's used in swimming pool filters) and spread as a perimeter on the floor surrounding each tire. For some reason the mice don't like the feel of it and will avoid it.
Then put plenty of mouse traps baited with peanut butter near the car. The peanut butter won't go bad during cold weather and will last quite a long time. Remember to check your trap line every day. You may get quite a few in the beginning but it will taper off quickly.
Hope this helps and always open to other ideas.

[bigmerc2003]

I am having a lot of luck so far be using a perimiter of crushed moth balls around the car, sorta looks like Draculas coffin though, and then put tons of dryer sheets in and around the car. the mice smell the moth balls and go the other way, but if they decide to pass the moth balls they hate the dryer sheets because it smells like humans. also use lots of decon, they eat the decon and leave the garage in search of water!!

[Stranger in the Black Sedan]

The only problem is that the car is not parked for the winter, I do drive it a couple times a week, plus I also pull other cars into the garage to work on them. So if I make a mess on the floor or put a hundred traps under the car I am going to have to move them constantly. I have a lot of traps around the perimeter of the garage baited w/ peanut butter, I will have to see if I caught anything when I get home. I am going to clean up all my random crap so the entire perimeter of the garage is visible, so I can easily set traps along the walls where the droppings are, and I can also visually keep an eye on droppings. The # of droppings indicates there are probably only a few, I have had old cars w/ holes in them and also sheds w/ a lot of mice in them and there were a lot of poops

[TheDonk]

Is it possible for a mouse to get in a 2003+ panther car?
Yes. We had a trooper take his CV in for service, running like crap.
They found a momma and her babies in a nest made from the air filter.

[fastblackmerc]

Try some of these:

I'd fill the bucket about 1/3 the way with water
http://glass.typepad.com/journal/2005/09/how_to_catch_a_.html

The Bounce sheets
http://www.kitchenchick.com/2006/01/the_war_against_1.html

http://www.stickemgluetraps.com/ratsmice.html

My favorite
http://manopia.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/who-needs-a-cat/

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-a-Mouse-Out-of-the-House

http://www.askmen.com/money/how_to_300/392_how_to.html

I remember something about mixing concrete with flour (dry), the mice eat it and it hardens up inside them.

[offroadkarter]

Remember the Mouse kills Cobra thread!

But he didnt have cats to catch the mouse, thats why his cobra died.

[jabird56]

Read my historical thread from this summer below,...focus in on my entries dated 07-14-08 and 07-19-08:

http://www.mercurymarauder.net/forums/showthread.php?t=45367&highlight=harness

Regarding storing your MM in the garage (I have learned this from storing my camper), put sheets of BOUNCE (yes, the dryer sheets) in and around the garage, inside the MM, and in the engine compartment. Mice HATE the smell of BOUNCE.

[CBT]

A mouse in a Marauder? Sure, anything is possible. I saw a cow in a Z-28 once. It was my first wife's fat assed cousin, she was in the backseat with her equally annoying boyfriend.

[Stranger in the Black Sedan]

I used to put bounce in old cars that were stored outside and mice pooped directly on the sheets. Can't say if it reduced their #s or not but those cars had holes in the floors so it wasn't exactly hard to get in. I cleared the garage out pretty extensively tonight and found some vacant nests built up to the walls but nothing active.

[Blk Mamba]

First, create a barrier that is mouse proof, then kill the rest. Mice can get through a dime size hole! Mice can climb, they can come in from the ceiling, and usually do. When building houses in the woods, they were usually inhabited by mice, bats, and bees first.

[Stranger in the Black Sedan]

I think I qualify as "in the woods"

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q116/shylin01/house/alyspics003.jpg

[Bigdogjim]

Put a bar of Irish Spring soap in the car. Cut the bar in quaters and palce a quater each side front and back for the trunk and engine 1 bar cut in half:)

Yes it works:up:

[Stranger in the Black Sedan]

I drive the car in the winter, I don't think the engine bar will go over too well!

[jabird56]

I think I qualify as "in the woods"

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q116/shylin01/house/alyspics003.jpg

Me too living over by Dr. Mudds House...

[offroadkarter]

BOTH of you are down in charles county now!? I just got back from la plata!!!

[jabird56]

BOTH of you are down in charles county now!? I just got back from la plata!!!

Yep, Just moved back from Omaha this past summer. Grew up in Burlington County (Lumberton) NJ.

[Local Boy]

Plug your exhaust pipes!

"That didn't sound right"...:lol::D

ALOHA

[Stranger in the Black Sedan]

Since i have cats, I am going to leave the pipes open. I hope one is in there when I start it, it will become a projectile.