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OneBlueDotS-Carolina

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2. Not uncommon...

Reply to CountAllVotes (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2025, 08:27 AM

Feb 2025

especially with vehicles than aren't driven much. 91K in 26 years...rats, mice love nesting in the engine compartment, often they chew the wires, it seems some manufacturers used wire that is coated with a product that rodents like. I would suggest an eviction, plus an inspection by a mechanic, letting the mechanic know there has been squatters living in the car.

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Glove compartment full of rats [View all] CountAllVotes Feb 2025 OP

I had a mouse in my Jeep wrangler's glove box. He ate a ketchup pack and was making a nest amongst the napkins. FSogol Feb 2025 #1

I think this car she bought was sitting around empty CountAllVotes Feb 2025 #3

Not uncommon... OneBlueDotS-Carolina Feb 2025 #2

I suggested she call a mobile mechanic CountAllVotes Feb 2025 #4

Not to knock mobile mechanics... OneBlueDotS-Carolina Feb 2025 #5

I don't know CountAllVotes Feb 2025 #16

Maybe get a car cat...n/t OneBlueDotS-Carolina Feb 2025 #17

You can pick up vermin sprays at auto parts shops - Probatim Feb 2025 #6

I know the check engine light keeps coming on CountAllVotes Feb 2025 #12

Yep, it happened to us. lark Feb 2025 #7

I twice had to have the air ducts replaced on my 2007 RAV4 nuxvomica Feb 2025 #8

I don't know what she has done about it CountAllVotes Feb 2025 #15

I have a twenty-year-old Volvo. murielm99 Feb 2025 #9

i had an entire box of kleenex chewed up samnsara Feb 2025 #10

Could be worse ... eppur_se_muova Feb 2025 #11

aww... at least opossums Annie Moosee Feb 2025 #13

She is in a tough situation CountAllVotes Feb 2025 #14

Well I've got rats, possums, skunks and racoons. They all seem to get along! LeftInTX Mar 2025 #22

This is a never ending saga where I live. marked50 Feb 2025 #18

Soy based paints CountAllVotes Feb 2025 #19

happens all the time Kali Feb 2025 #20

Hubby had rats in a vehicle. That was before I met him. LeftInTX Mar 2025 #21

Nest of rats. Has Top Cat been informed? Wolf Frankula Mar 2025 #23