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Horsefly (Arlie)
Member
Username: Arlie
Post Number: 852
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 2:45 pm: | |
DES, anytime you start quoting Wacko Jacko, we start worrying. Also, a friend of mine went to move his 57 Chevy that had been sitting in his backyard for quite a while. When we opened the trunk, it was a rat motel! There must have been 50 pounds of nesting material and refuse in the trunk. We decided to tow it to a car wash and use their industrial vacuum and clean the mess out, then wash it off. Fortunately, it looked like they were well fed, because nothing was gnawed apart.
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Jerry W. (Tork1966)
Member
Username: Tork1966
Post Number: 539
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 12:22 pm: | |
Angelo, I don't get the Michigan plate/puking thing. |
Mike (Dollartaker)
Junior Member
Username: Dollartaker
Post Number: 83
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 11:09 am: | |
Angelo,
The rats that came to my 308 and puked,came over running from your 355 because of the incessant rattling. |
Steven R. Rochlin (Enjoythemusic)
Junior Member
Username: Enjoythemusic
Post Number: 234
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 8:55 am: | |
Mike,
i wonder why people allow their cars to sit for any real period of time. Even one week, let alone a few weeks or (GASP) a month? Ok, snow and ice granted, though the roads here in NH have been fairly cleared and my 308 does fine in the cold. Just amazed people who have one Ferrari car do not drive them more. If you have 2 or more, just rotate driving them. It is better for the car :-)
Enjoy the Drive,
Steven R. Rochlin
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DES (Sickspeed)
Advanced Member
Username: Sickspeed
Post Number: 2803
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 8:47 am: | |
"Ben... the two of us, we look no more...
We've... both found what we've been looking for..." |
Nika (Racernika)
Member
Username: Racernika
Post Number: 845
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 8:42 am: | |
You should buy one of these http://www.griotsgarage.com/catalog.jsp?&SKU=46388
PROTECT YOUR VEHICLES AND OTHER BELONGINGS FROM RAT AND MICE DESTRUCTION
Rats and mice can do more damage to your vehicle in one night than a teenager on a joy ride. I've seen cars with eaten electrical wiring, chewed up seats, nests in exhaust systems and air cleaners remodeled into nurseries. While I love all of natures little critters, I don't like them living in my cars. This is a humane device that's much better than traps. It kills small vermin instantly with a zap of electricity. No poisons or dangerous traps to worry about with your kids and pets. It's quick and clean. Just put the supplied kibble at the end of the trap, and place it in an area where these vermin are around. A flashing light lets you know when you've got a victim! Here's the nice part...when you catch your critter, just tip the box over a trash can. Critter slides out without even touching it! Uses four AA batteries (not included). Ideal in garages, barns, attics, everywhere! |
Ron Thomas (Ronsupercar)
Member
Username: Ronsupercar
Post Number: 518
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 8:23 am: | |
I HATE rats! |
Jere Dunham (Questioner)
Junior Member
Username: Questioner
Post Number: 193
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 8:21 am: | |
A friend who lives in a fairly new housing development had his 360 coupe occupied by rats. Somehow they got into his new garage and got under the bellypan covering. They chewed up a lot of wiring insulation. He thought he had a dead battery and had the car towed in. When they dropped the underpinning, he said a lot of chewed up insulation came down with it. This happened on a Thursday and he had driven it the previous weekend. He was told it is a fairly common occurence, especially if you live in a new area that has been recently developed where there used to be fields. Cost him about $4K to repair the wiring damage. Happened again less than three months later. And this was after he had the place pest exterminated after the first happening. Sold the house and moved. |
Pat Pasqualini (Enzo)
Member
Username: Enzo
Post Number: 294
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 7:58 am: | |
PSK- Actually they didn't come running out they actually shot right out of the tailpipes!! |
Andrew Menasce (Amenasce)
Member
Username: Amenasce
Post Number: 698
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 7:13 am: | |
Use and Wash the car more often..I dont see how a rat house would resist 100 mph trips.. |
Taek-Ho Kwon (Stickanddice)
Junior Member
Username: Stickanddice
Post Number: 154
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 7:08 am: | |
Get a carcoon! |
Leonardo Soccolich (Lens)
Member
Username: Lens
Post Number: 254
Registered: 3-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 7:05 am: | |
I had a car cover destroyed by neighborhood cats, and field mice living in the garage with my 328. I tried humane traps, but they didn't work, so I switched to real traps. They worked! Also just bought an ultrasonic pest deterrent to keep all critters away from the garage. |
Bonnie (Admirable)
Member
Username: Admirable
Post Number: 297
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 7:01 am: | |
OMG!! That is SOO gross, i would freak out!! Omg, i cant believe that happens. Grosssssssss |
john beaucher (Spider348)
New member
Username: Spider348
Post Number: 42
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 6:58 am: | |
Hans, good memory. That was, sad to say, me. Nested in my wife's Lexus SC400. Did $4k worth of damage. Dealer also stated this is not uncommon.
Nested in a P-car 930 about 5 years prior. $2k damage.
Around that same period, nested in my prior 308 muffler. Started car to warm and move. Ejected 1 of the mice like he was shot from a cannon. Had to run the car till the nest burned out. Not a pleasant experience.
John |
Ken (Allyn)
Member
Username: Allyn
Post Number: 774
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 6:10 am: | |
I drive my Lotus every 2-3 days or so and I had a field mouse move in once; there's nothing an owner can do outside of keeping a cat in the garage. This is in an attached garage in a suburb too, not some country barn. Two mouse traps caught him overnight. |
Robin Overcash (Robin)
Junior Member
Username: Robin
Post Number: 56
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 1:12 am: | |
I had rat problems with a car years ago... It was a car I drove every day, but it only took one time for some errant mouse/rat to climb into my engine bay and chew through the spark plug wires. Doesn't need to sit long or anything. In this car, the rodent just climbed up from the bottom. Not sure how one would get into the engine bay of a 355...
-R |
Angelo H. Oliva (Blicima_355)
New member
Username: Blicima_355
Post Number: 16
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 12:32 am: | |
It shows you that rats also have great taste... If it would have been a 308 with Michigan plates it would have probably "puked".....
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Ghostrider (Threefivefive)
Junior Member
Username: Threefivefive
Post Number: 63
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 12:08 am: | |
Are exhaust pipes the place from where rats enter? Would you eliminate the threat if you covered them up?
Regards. |
jake diamond (Rampante)
Junior Member
Username: Rampante
Post Number: 73
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 10:54 pm: | |
I thought only Chevy's had "rat motors" !! |
Robert Callahan (Rcallahan)
Junior Member
Username: Rcallahan
Post Number: 108
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 10:41 pm: | |
This tread sounds like the the makings of a movie: Willard's Gum Ball Rally!
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Robert McNair (Rrm)
Junior Member
Username: Rrm
Post Number: 219
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 10:33 pm: | |
Whenever I store cars, or snowmobiles as the case is now, in the off season I have always made it a point to start them at least once a month that way if there is something wrong I know about it or if something is trying to make residence they are scared away. |
JRV (Jrvall)
Intermediate Member
Username: Jrvall
Post Number: 1132
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 10:30 pm: | |
I've seen rat invasions quite a few times, even a squirels harvest of pecans in a Diablo once. If you get rats make sure you feed them well, if they get hungry they seem to prefer the insulation on electrical wires, or maybe that's what they like for midnight snacks? |
PSk (Psk)
Member
Username: Psk
Post Number: 254
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 10:27 pm: | |
Pat,
I would loved to have seen the little bastards run out of those pipes with I imagine very scared eyes ... hahahahaha
What I cannot understand is a Ferrari having its bonnet (hood) closed long enough for something like a rat to nest????
Owner does not deserve it!
Pete |
Pat Pasqualini (Enzo)
Member
Username: Enzo
Post Number: 293
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 9:14 pm: | |
One year I was taking my 66 Ford Galaxy 500 out of storage and upon starting it I found out that a couple of mice made some homes in the mufflers. I know have wised up and stuff steel wool in the tail pipes now. |
Mr. Doody (Doody)
Member
Username: Doody
Post Number: 884
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 8:34 pm: | |
rats are impressively efficient creatures. they'll move in and get comfy lickety-split if you let 'em.
doody. |
Jerry W. (Tork1966)
Member
Username: Tork1966
Post Number: 531
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 7:52 pm: | |
Rats suck. Hairy, creepy and ickey. |
Hans E. Hansen (4re_gt4)
Member
Username: 4re_gt4
Post Number: 948
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 7:48 pm: | |
I don't think it necessarily takes too long. The process can be ongoing while the car is in normal use. Somewhere on the web (here?) a guy was complaining about his late model Lexus having to go in for several thou $$ in rat repairs. |
Mike (Dollartaker)
Junior Member
Username: Dollartaker
Post Number: 82
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 7:15 pm: | |
Today I had the "Opportunity" to witness a 355 in for service (I won't say where) because a rat had made a home and meal of the engine bay. I was so surprised when the mechanic told me that this was not an uncommon event. Why would a Ferrari sit so long that this would occur? Sorry Enzo. |