A mouse made a hell of a mess in my car. The firewall area, fresh air heater area. So in the process of pulling the wipers off to access the area I heard a snap. Windshield crack, FNFKN mouse I'm going to kill that little turd. Little bastard cost me $400 ( windshield) plus labor to clean up the mess. The water drain hole diameter was way too big. I used screen and epoxy to stop the mouse for next time.

Our son had a mouse in his car a few years ago at college. They seem to like that ‘cabin air filter’ area, his the same.

I had a mouse setting up a home under my snowmobile hood a month ago. I saw him dead on the ground, must of ate something.

I have preventative around, mostly pet safe bait houses. I have no remorse & dispatch every one I see.

The last few years our winters have been very mild. No real cold periods (global warming? ).

In the past, when we had really frigid temperatures, like below 40, for several days, the field mice would infest the hangars at the airport, seeking shelter from the cold.

The worst occurrence was the mouse that crawled into the blower fan on my truck. Took us a bit of searching to find the cause of "the smell of death" every time we turned on the fan.

I have pet safe, mouse eating cats.

Yep, had them in the blower and fresh air filter areas as well as chewing up a plug wire set. Turning on the fan and getting hit in the face with dust, grit and no doubt stuff sucks. I had to take stuff apart and clean out the nests.

The wife has had a couple cases in her SUV, traps with peanut butter got them quick.

We've never had them in our cars, or the boat, yet, but we've had them in the house. Last fall Mrs. Ensigmatic put a bunch of pet-safe mouse poison all around the house. We had one mouse, which the cats brought upstairs and subsequently lost control of (later found dead in a closet).

The manufacturers insist on the cabin air filters, which allow eaqsy access to rodents. WHY they can't add a SCREEN over that opening astounds me.

Cost me $500 last year when a mouse got into my 17 Camaro and set up house in the blowers and behind my dashboard.

Simple fix was a screen over the cabin air filter access port. NO further issues.

Soy used in the manufacture of wireing insulation and other items as an abundant food source for mice does not help.

I keep my S.C.A.T. unit deployed at all times. All five members are on duty 24 hours a day and patrol for vermin (sometimes butterflies too). Since the Special Cat Assault Team has been active, no more mouse attacks on my house or vehicles. Before implementation of the team, traps and a pellet gun just couldn't win the battle. Now, if I can train them to tunnel and go after the pocket gophers.

I have to repair rodent-damaged auto wiring fairly often. The most rodent fun I had was pulling a blower motor that was making noise and a dead mouse - its face shredded off by the fan blades - falling out with it.

Every orfice on my P car has a cap. No problems so far this year.

I dare the first mouse to penetrate the cap squad. Once that happens I deploy chemicals and sticky paper.

I got the mouse traps deployed. Cats are on high alert. No mercy

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Originally posted by egregore:
I have to repair rodent-damaged auto wiring fairly often. The most rodent fun I had was pulling a blower motor that was making noise and a dead mouse - its face shredded off by the fan blades - falling out with it.

Don't know how a blower fan cuts things in two.

Had mouse nesting somewhere in the dash, liked chewing on things in the glove box. Then, next season, found five, live babies in the glove box! Now have pet safe mouse poison in the garage and that seems to have solved the problem, even with the truck stored outside.

Coworker had a nest under the hood of his Nissan truck... unfortunately he only found out when it caught fire while he was stopped at a red light. He had no fire extinguisher. Burned down, total loss.

A mouse built a nest in the engine of my ZTR mower. It blocked the flow of cooling air over one of the heads. The head overheated allowing the pressed in valve guide to slip in position causing a no start. Repair required a new head. The mower was almost three years old but was covered by Briggs and Stratton commercial warranty. The dealer fixed it at no charge.

Rats!

Okay, not the worst. 20 minutes into driving to work, a three foot long snake came out from under the dash and slid across the passengers floorboard to under the drivers seat. I got some funny looks when I made it to work and opened all six doors on my Suburban and went inside. Came back and closed the doors an hour later.

I hate those things. I've had to fix the wiring on my tractor more times than you can imagine. Poison seems to help.

Got to keep an eye out for the little suckers. Had the tech check out the wiring after he found this.

 
The only vehicle we keep outside of the garage or a shed is the Kubota tractor. In 17 years, never a mouse chewing problem, and we have plenty of field mice. Perhaps the smell of diesel keeps them at bay. Now the little ground squirrels who feed on mesquite seed pods love to take their pods up into the tractor's engine compartment, leaving behind massive piles of empty pods. It takes an air hose to blast them all out.