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Hoo...was I in for a surprise today when I brought the Bomb back after a spin. I opened the boot lid to check the wiring to one of the backup lights; lo and behold, I saw a pile of white cotton stuffing and bits of dog food.
That's a clear cut sign that mice have taken up residence; after pulling the spare and tools out, I found more stuffing, dog food and some rather fresh looking "mouse stuff" for want of a better term. I went ahead and vacuumed the boot out, then nuked the whole area with some disinfectant spray. Here comes the part where Josh is scratching his head.
Where could those buggers have come in through? I know that they can sneak through virtually any gap, which makes finding their entry point a bit difficult to track. I've seen three possible entry points, ordered from least to most likely. The boot lid, which is rarely opened, the fuel pump aperture, which doesn't even have enough of a gap to fit a finger through, or three, the space between the rear wings and the wheel tub.
One thing I found when I was rust sealing and recarpeting, was a decent size access hole on the panel where the top bows mount to the body, which forms an area leading past the wheel tub to the boot. Those panels were left off while the carpeting was being done, but have been back up and tight for some time now.
A slight rub with that theory though; the mice would have to be able to get in and out in order to bring in the nest materials and their food. Getting in that way would have been easy (if they could've survived the Rust Bullet fumes), but getting out would be a chore with the panels in place and intact. Magician mice maybe?
Any ideas on how they may have been able to get in? The boot itself is structurally solid otherwise; no rust holes or gashes.
Someone tell me that they've had something like this happen to them, so I don't feel too much like the proverbial horse's rear end.
That's a clear cut sign that mice have taken up residence; after pulling the spare and tools out, I found more stuffing, dog food and some rather fresh looking "mouse stuff" for want of a better term. I went ahead and vacuumed the boot out, then nuked the whole area with some disinfectant spray. Here comes the part where Josh is scratching his head.
Where could those buggers have come in through? I know that they can sneak through virtually any gap, which makes finding their entry point a bit difficult to track. I've seen three possible entry points, ordered from least to most likely. The boot lid, which is rarely opened, the fuel pump aperture, which doesn't even have enough of a gap to fit a finger through, or three, the space between the rear wings and the wheel tub.
One thing I found when I was rust sealing and recarpeting, was a decent size access hole on the panel where the top bows mount to the body, which forms an area leading past the wheel tub to the boot. Those panels were left off while the carpeting was being done, but have been back up and tight for some time now.
A slight rub with that theory though; the mice would have to be able to get in and out in order to bring in the nest materials and their food. Getting in that way would have been easy (if they could've survived the Rust Bullet fumes), but getting out would be a chore with the panels in place and intact. Magician mice maybe?
Any ideas on how they may have been able to get in? The boot itself is structurally solid otherwise; no rust holes or gashes.
Someone tell me that they've had something like this happen to them, so I don't feel too much like the proverbial horse's rear end.
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