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mice in 94 740IL glove box
Anyone else experience mice nests in a BMW glove compartment? I put traps
in the garage, which seems to have stopped it for the time being. Had to clean out nests every 2-3 days for the last month. |
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On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 19:21:00 -0600, > wrote:
>Anyone else experience mice nests in a BMW glove compartment? I put traps >in the garage, which seems to have stopped it for the time being. Had to >clean out nests every 2-3 days for the last month. No, but a year or two ago I had a mouse in a coat closet that ate a hole in the sleeve of a nice leather jacket that was hanging in there. Quite frankly, I'd have preferred it to have made a nest in the glove box of my car than to have eaten a hole in a perfectly good leather jacket. It makes me wonder why I bother to keep two cats in the house. -- Dan Drake |
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On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 19:21:00 -0600, > wrote:
>Anyone else experience mice nests in a BMW glove compartment? I put traps >in the garage, which seems to have stopped it for the time being. Had to >clean out nests every 2-3 days for the last month. And I bet if you ask your dealer he'll tell you "Oh, they all do that" ;-) |
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> wrote in :
> Anyone else experience mice nests in a BMW glove compartment? I put > traps in the garage, which seems to have stopped it for the time > being. Had to clean out nests every 2-3 days for the last month. > > I feel your pain. I usually keep a bar of 'one bite' in my glove box, although the downside is they sometimes decide to die in the heater vents. The other thing I do is set out those sticky traps -- they're like a flat bit of heavy paper with super sticky surface, and i'll set those out in the car. Its got some bait in the middle and when the lil *******s go for it they get stuck. Then you can throw out the whole thing, and they don't find a nasty spot to die. sucks when they get overturned and stuck to your carpet tho. Even worse are wood rats (I live in the boonies). They love to set up shop in my engine compartment right on the battery in my 74 tii -- build a giant nest of sticks and then chew wires and so on. Nothing like poping the hood and seeing a mess of sticks filling your engine compartment. When they get thick I duct tape a chunk of one bite on my battery and check it once in a while. Grrr best of luck -z |
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> Anyone else experience mice nests in a BMW glove compartment?
One of the UK BMW mags had a photo of a dead mouse and it's food store inside an air filter housing :-) It's also not unusual for blackbirds or robins to build nests under wheel arches. I've also heard of cats climbing up into the engine bay at night, and the owners stopping the car the next morning to find out what the terrible noise under the bonnet is! Al. |
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"Al" > wrote in message . 4... > > Anyone else experience mice nests in a BMW glove compartment? > > One of the UK BMW mags had a photo of a dead mouse and it's food store > inside an air filter housing :-) > > It's also not unusual for blackbirds or robins to build nests under wheel > arches. > > I've also heard of cats climbing up into the engine bay at night, and the > owners stopping the car the next morning to find out what the terrible > noise under the bonnet is! I know somebody that one traced a terrible noise when climate control was on, to dog food in the ducts. One could speculate that mice were involved. -Russ. |
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I cleaned out a mouse's food pantry that was in my '94 325is. The air
filter box was full of maple keys. Yes the performance was starting to suffer, so I decided to check the air filter and found at least 500 maple tree keys. The little bugger was also starting to nest under the hood insulation blanket. He's gone now, bless his little soul. Used a glue mat, and dropped a brick on his head in the morning. |
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