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[blacktulip]

i wonder if mice has eaten through my brake lines as since i had it up the garden from sept my brakes have gone lol

[SamMason]

Hehe this is an amusing topic!

I've never experienced mice in my own mini.. But..

I know its not mini based, but when I was a baby my folks bought a little Subaru truck thing, off of our neighbour. Anyway, the truck had been sat in the garage for about 18 months beforehand. When dad started it, tons of straw & hay came flying out of the air vents & engine bay! They heard a large clanging noise, so dad looked under the bonnet & found a poor little mouse rattling around in the radiator fan..

Edited by SamMason, 26 February 2012 - 10:41 PM.

[MrBounce]

My old Mayfair became a mouse house for about 2 months - could never catch them! They stored the stones from the plum tree in the front garden behind the dashboard and made a right mess. They were never bothered to go into the humane mouse trap we had. Eventually they disappeared. I did at one stage consider putting Norman the cat into the car, but he complained. Loudly.

[MaxAndPaddy]

Sister in law had an MGB sat in a garage that she decided she wanted restoring. The garage hadnt been opened for 4/5 years. The first thing that hit you was the smell

5 years worth of mouse pizzle and crappola doesnt smell good

They'd eaten it

[86mayfair]

I noticed a little strip of paper hanging down from under the dash behind the steering column when I got my mini home, there was loads of it up there. Then I felt particlarly thick and leathery feeling one so I gave that a good tug. Turned out to be a dead mouse's tail! Gave me one hell of a fright when it fell into the footwell! It was really old, It looked like a sort of cartoon mummy mouse!

My dad's Lotus Sunbeam has a major mouse problem, which comes from being in the garage for so long. It also has cat foot prints in the dust on the windscreen haha! Problem solved then

Edited by 86mayfair, 26 February 2012 - 10:51 PM.

[scb]

Mice in my mini? No but the cats from the local area jump through the garage window and then sit inside my mini - I guess I need to get a move on with the resto and get some windows in so the cats can't get in

[miniman retford]

Had a car come in at work with poor running problems. When the mechanic took the top off the air cleaner it was full to the top with peanuts
The customer kept them in the garage for feeding wild birds with

[mini77]

I've put a few mouse traps down in the car just in case, the man that sold me the traps told me they LOVE peanut butter! :)

[JVA10L]

Every winter I get Damson stones in the engine bay of our cars and the mice like to knaw at the insulation on climate control pipes, but this is nothing compared to a friend of mine. His Corsa was laid up in a barn over the winter and when he tried to start it in the spring the engine blew up big time. The cause was a mouse nest in one of the cylinders - the only way in was up the exhaust pipe.

[AVV IT]

When the mice nested in mine, they must have brought buckets of salt water with them and chucked it into the sills and all over the rear subby!! Because when I found their nest, I noticed that the rear subby and the sills had rotted through on both sides as well!!

[JustSteve]

I found a kid from the local 'state in my mini... does that count?

Edited by JustSteve, 27 February 2012 - 09:27 PM.

[minimissionary]

I found a kid from the local 'state in my mini... does that count?

Should've set a 'humane' trap.