Re: SD> Mouse smells in stored car.
back in 98 when I got my first 86 turbo Z which had been in a field for 2 years before I got it, it was infested. I stripped the interior and it still smelled, even with the interior out. the mice had gotten behind the dash and into the air vents. I pulled the instrument cluster out last summer to check another 86 turbo Z's to see if it worked and found more nests in there, so be ready to take everything apart. -Original Message- From: Greg Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: shelby-dodge@imagicomm.com Sent: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 06:58:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: SD> Mouse smells in stored car. I pulled a Shelby Charger from a field that had mice in it. I steam cleaned, simple green'd, you name it, but there was still that "smell" especially on hot days. yuck. So one afternoon I went nuts and dismantled the interior and found a few little nests behind the plastic trim which were the root cause. Once those were gone it was fine, but the moral of the story is, be prepared for a THOROUGH cleaning!! The fun part about those mice was the nest with a dead one getting shot out the tailpipe after firing the car up after being dormant for two years... LOL --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > Anyone have a sure fire way to kill the smell of mice that were > in a car. I bought my GLHS and it had mice at one time or > another. I'm about to gut the car and do a thorough cleaning, > but want to make sure I kill the smell completely. Any ideas? > Thanks > > Bob Doherty > Coon Rapids, MN. > > 89 Daytona Shelby TII > 89 LeBaron GTC Convert TII > 86 Shelby Charger TI > Shelby GLHS #784 > 85 GLH T > 68 AMC AMX #5816 > http://geocities.com/amoparx/ > > ---REMOVE-FOOTER-WHEN-REPLYING > Questions? Visit http://www.sdml.org/ > > To be removed, visit http://www.sdml.org/pages/leave.html Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---REMOVE-FOOTER-WHEN-REPLYING Questions? Visit http://www.sdml.org/ To be removed, visit http://www.sdml.org/pages/leave.html ---REMOVE-FOOTER-WHEN-REPLYING Questions? Visit http://www.sdml.org/ To be removed, visit http://www.sdml.org/pages/leave.html
Re: SD> Mouse smells in stored car.
I had the same problem with mine. I completely stripped out the interior, dash, headliner, everything, and took it to the car wash and power washed it. Then I steam cleaned the carpets and seats, cleaned all the airbox parts out, and simple greened everything. The worst part was in the frame rails under the doors. They were completely plugged up with mouse crap and such. I had to stick the power washer in from the kick panel holes and the speaker hole areas to get water in, and pulled all the plugs out from underneath. It was a mess to say the least. And yes, after I got it fired back up, it blew all kinds of mouse crap out of the exhaust for at least two days... Now I have Shelby Lancer #387 to do that same thing with this summer. :( Greg Z wrote: I pulled a Shelby Charger from a field that had mice in it. I steam cleaned, simple green'd, you name it, but there was still that "smell" especially on hot days. yuck. So one afternoon I went nuts and dismantled the interior and found a few little nests behind the plastic trim which were the root cause. Once those were gone it was fine, but the moral of the story is, be prepared for a THOROUGH cleaning!! The fun part about those mice was the nest with a dead one getting shot out the tailpipe after firing the car up after being dormant for two years... LOL --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Anyone have a sure fire way to kill the smell of mice that were in a car. I bought my GLHS and it had mice at one time or another. I'm about to gut the car and do a thorough cleaning, but want to make sure I kill the smell completely. Any ideas? Thanks Bob Doherty Coon Rapids, MN. 89 Daytona Shelby TII 89 LeBaron GTC Convert TII 86 Shelby Charger TI Shelby GLHS #784 85 GLH T 68 AMC AMX #5816 http://geocities.com/amoparx/ ---REMOVE-FOOTER-WHEN-REPLYING Questions? Visit http://www.sdml.org/ To be removed, visit http://www.sdml.org/pages/leave.html Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---REMOVE-FOOTER-WHEN-REPLYING Questions? Visit http://www.sdml.org/ To be removed, visit http://www.sdml.org/pages/leave.html ---REMOVE-FOOTER-WHEN-REPLYING Questions? Visit http://www.sdml.org/ To be removed, visit http://www.sdml.org/pages/leave.html
Re: SD> Mouse smells in stored car.
Take two cups of fresh ground coffee, put 'em in a fry pan, and heat 'em up until they start to smell nice. Don't scorch them - just get them real hot. Place the pan of hot grounds in the car on a thick towel to avoid burns and leave overnight with the car closed up tight. You'll be amazed at what those grounds will absorb. This is courtesy of the old column by "Hints by Heloise " and served me well when I had a beef roast rot in my CSX after it had fallen from a grocery bag. Smelled like death in that car and the hot grounds fixed it completely. Regards, Holmes --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > Anyone have a sure fire way to kill the smell of > mice that were in a car. I bought my GLHS and it > had mice at one time or another. I'm about to gut > the car and do a thorough cleaning, but want to make > sure I kill the smell completely. Any ideas? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---REMOVE-FOOTER-WHEN-REPLYING Questions? Visit http://www.sdml.org/ To be removed, visit http://www.sdml.org/pages/leave.html
