jensenracing77

i just started the car for the first time in 3 months and it smells like a dead mouse real bad. i can't find where it is but i did find where it got in. there is a spot by the antenna cable that is not there and has a hole big enough for a mouse. i found no damage but how do i get the smell out. i figure that it will just have to air out when the weather gets better. any ideas? i had poison out all winter and none of it had ben eaten. i guess i would rather die in an Oldsmobile than eat poison also

Oldsmaniac

If you think the mouse is inside the car dead ya better look for it. It will stink for a very long time and so will anything its laying on. The barn find I just got had a dead but still juicy mouse in the trunk on the metal pan. Talk about stink, and after it was removed I tried to clean the metal....still stank and finally painted 3 coats of paint over the spot and its 99% gone!

66ninetyeightls

Yeah that can last for years if you don't get it out. Will only get worse once the weather gets hot.

66ninetyeightls

Interesting idea.

Wyze

I got a story about rodents, and not mice!!! I had noticed my rearseat had been chewed off of but I didn't see any cushion inside the car!!! Well I didn't have any hood hinges at the time so I was putting some on and dropped 1 down in the fire wall, no big deal!!! So I'm digging around in there feeling around and what do you know, I get a handful of seat cushion!!! My mind must have really been on that pin cause I stuck my arm back in and this time came up with more cushion!!!!






























And a dead possoum, just a lil fellow but scared the *%#¥ outta me!!!

70 cutlass s

What was George Jones doing in your car.

Lady72nRob71

Listening to the 'Possum on "The 'Possum"!


(It is one of the few good stations down here...)

71rocket

Mice, shmice............be glad you've never had a pack rat set up shop under your hood.......................Oooh the humanity!!

Jamesbo

Pack your car with crumble up newspaper, it will absorb much of the order. DO NOT LEAVE IT IN THERE FOR LONG unless you want to make a mice motel with a Vacancy sign.

Tedd Thompson

Had one die in the back of the heater box in a 63 Olds. Couldn't find it for years. Smelled horaible ever time I fired it up in the winter. Can't beleive.so much stink could come out of such a small critter and last for so long. You gotta get that thing out of there befor it seeps in to the pours of your car and becomes part of it... Tedd

cutlassgal

I hope you can find it and get it out.... next winter you better put lots of Bounce dryer sheets in the car to keep them out!

Lady72nRob71

There is a very caustic chemical reaction that occures when one of these things decomposes...
I found a dead one in the corner in the garage 8 years ago and the skeleton pattern etched on the concrete floor still remains!
Find it and eliminate it! Use the dog method if needed.

Of course my neighbor's shitzu failed to find the live skunk hiding in his garage. That was a total fiasco before it was over...

Natas

I've heard that dryer sheets and Irish spring soap is enough to keep them at bay.

mike's88

I believe that only works on LIVE mice.

Bluevista

Find out what they used to get the smell out of that '57 Corvette . You know the one that the guy died in and it was months before they found him then nobody wanted the car because of the smell and his sister sold it to a kid for a hundred bucks.

Fireman are the guys that traditionally clean up that kind of stuff, do it on the job and on the side, somebody has to.

Shitzu?.. that isn't even a dog.
The skunk would be better at finding a dead mouse, or open the window and the flies will find it.
Get a Ferret and it will ferret the thing out.

Destructor

Poor little mouse.

Lady72nRob71

Nasty.......

Tell me about it.
They have 2 cats also and they rule the house. The "dog" only eats cat food and when I am over there saying "here, kitty, kitty", only the "dog" comes running.

I never knew ferrit was a verb....

GoodOldsGuyDougie

As charlie brown would say..Rats!

71rocket

I never thought of that!! Thanks Blue.

BIGJERR

Check the headliner.......A favorite of rodents and there familys

compedgemarine

a shitzu is a great dog. if you spray them with Enddust and let them run under the couch and chairs your spring cleaning is done.

ent72olds

Had rats living in the walls of a house we lived in growing up....one died in there...was the worst smell ever! Our dog did eventually take care of the dead rat, and the live ones.......he tore holes in the walls everywhere! Pulled every last rat and even the dead one out! Great dog! Shitty house....good thing it was only a rental in the 'hood!

defiant1

I am currently using Ozium (buy at Wal-Mart) to get rid of the old barn/dead mouse smell in my car. The previous owner reveled in the smell and thought that it meant it was "authentic" 1970 aroma.

Anyway after using the product as directed (well almost) after a week there is a noticeable difference in odor. I would recommend it. Apparently it kills any odor causing bacteria. Whatever it does, it is working for me.

olds68

Well, I unwrapped my '69 from it's winter storage cocoon yesterday only to find mouse droppings and a wicked smell that wasn't vintage
Keep in mind, when I packed it away in November, I filled every nook and cranny with bounce sheets. So much for that idea Oh yea, as I was unpacking the car, one little rascal ran away as I was watching
No visible damage found yet but I'm still looking.
After washing the exterior to remove mouse foot prints and other "stuff", I proceeded to search for remains and found a carcass under the rear seat. Cleaned and vacuumed the remains and nesting and "febrezed" the entire interior. We'll see how it is in a week.
I HATE them meeces to pieces

Lady72nRob71

Geez... Sorry to hear. Hope you get it cleaned out...
How do you think they got inside? I always wonder about that. I would not think the windows would be left down or doors open.

olds68

I never could figure out how them meeces get into cars
The '69 was buttoned up tight and fully bungi wrapped with plastic tarps all around. There was a small hole chewed through the tarp on the bottom but beyond that, I have no clue where they chose to enter the car. I've used pepper spray, moth *****, Irish Spring, and Bounce towels now to no avail. Anyone out there have any other ideas???

66ninetyeightls

Most house mice can fit through a hole as small as a dime. So that leave the cowl, heater ducts and even trunk/door gaps if they are big enough. If they want in they are getting in.

MJAKS462

I have parted lots of cars and the only 3 spots I have found critter homes is the engine side of the heater core ( almost every car), and in all seats , once in the headliner , these must be the prime real estate in cars.I watched a mouse crawl down a 1/4 " hole in my porch so if they really want in they will get in.

stan 65 cutlass

you guys are killing me. how many days this post going? a mouse? i wanna hear some nasty critters, heres my area this weekend.
cougar.jpg

compedgemarine

big deal. if one of those critters died in your car you could find pretty easily. probably easier if it wasnt dead yet. all kidding aside that is one heck of a security system.

stan 65 cutlass

ya i guess , my cutlass smells like a dead cougar would get solved a lot quicker,

MJAKS462

How do you get to the car ? Hope you have a shotgun.

olds68

That's the best mouse preventative measure I've seen yet
Where do you get those

Lady72nRob71

Are those mountain lions?
Much better looking than mice, for sure.
Of course Jamesbo still has the biggest guard animals around his house - bears!

71rocket

Try some F'breeze or Fabreeze....however it's spelled.

Col Wickham

We've come full circle. When I first joined this site we were talking about mice getting into Oldsmobiles. I posted this pic back then & I'll do it again....cos I like it.
Maybe if Oldsmobiles in storage were dressed up as big mice, the little ones would keep the heck away from the shed.

cutlassgal

I still like that pic, Colonel!!! It just makes me laugh!!!