Dave,
I firmly believe that MGs are designed specifically attract
rodents. I make this claim based on the fact that
more than 50% of the cars that I looked at while searching for
my 80 B had evidence of another life form living in the
car. The most common living quarters were in the fenders above the
wheel well. Should you doubt my "research", the final data
point was my own car. Within one month after parking my car
in the garage we found a mouse living in it. An old fashion
mouse trap "eliminated" the problem. At the urging of my wife
I tried other methods but the mouse just kept comming back.
To keep them out next year, you might try putting
some moth balls in the engine compartment and wheel wells. I don't
know if I would want to place them in the passenger area though.
Good luck,
Gene Balinski
80'B
PS you should have heard my wife screem when this tiny mouse came running
out of the
car for the first time !!!!!
At 09:37 AM 3/21/99 -0600, mgdave@uswest.net wrote:
>Greettings,
>
>Well I uncovered Fergie yesterday and checked all the fluid
>levels and installed batteries. While I was making one last
>look over the engine bay, I noticed something strange in the
>passenger side wing......grass. Grass and leaves and black
>fuzzzy stuff. OH MY GOD SOMEONES BEEN SLEEPING IN MY
>CAR!!! Run in house and get big oven mit just in case the
>interloper is still there. Stick big gloved hand in
>there.......no one home. Pull out large amount of stuff and
>take another once over the engine bay to make sure nothing
>has been nibbled on. Get in. Fires right up. Go on
>longish drive to "blow carbon off the valves" so I told
>wife. Forgot about the rodent. Any suggestions on how to
>keep this from happening next year?
>
>David Stecher
>Urbandale Iowa
>73 BGT Fergie
>
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