Squirrels are eating my car!!!
12-22-2007, 05:48 PM
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I know I may catch hell for this solution... but it works:
Back when I was in college and living in an apartment (no garage) and the squirrels would drop nuts on the car or the birds would drop shi* on the car, I was able to get them to stop very easily by taking a couple out with a pellet gun...
A couple of there dead buddies laying around on the ground is a great incentive for them to discontinue screwing around with your car... They'd stay away for a while, then start acting up, then it was time to teach the same old lesson again.
Soooooo, who will be the first person to call me a cruel, animal hater? I'm really not. :/
Back when I was in college and living in an apartment (no garage) and the squirrels would drop nuts on the car or the birds would drop shi* on the car, I was able to get them to stop very easily by taking a couple out with a pellet gun...
A couple of there dead buddies laying around on the ground is a great incentive for them to discontinue screwing around with your car... They'd stay away for a while, then start acting up, then it was time to teach the same old lesson again.
Soooooo, who will be the first person to call me a cruel, animal hater? I'm really not. :/
12-24-2007, 05:54 PM
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Well I found out where they were getting the insulation for their nuts from...
(see photo below)
Also, I was thinking about it and there aren't really any trees near my house that have acorns... then I remembered a while back I left my car parked at work for 4 days while I was traveling... there are a bunch of trees around at work. I am hoping that the mice/squirrels/whatever got in there when I was parked at work and then left the nuts behind.
The damage doesn't look so bad so hopefully this will be the last I see of them but I will be checking under the hood weekly!
(see photo below)
Also, I was thinking about it and there aren't really any trees near my house that have acorns... then I remembered a while back I left my car parked at work for 4 days while I was traveling... there are a bunch of trees around at work. I am hoping that the mice/squirrels/whatever got in there when I was parked at work and then left the nuts behind.
The damage doesn't look so bad so hopefully this will be the last I see of them but I will be checking under the hood weekly!
01-09-2008, 03:10 PM
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damn... sorry to hear that. I am afraid of animals living in my car because it damaged my husband's TL last winter. When my husband got his TL we had a rodent problem. Worse thing was we did not find out until we started the car but the car would not go beyond 10 mph... turns out the rat chewed up some wires in the car affecting the computer chips etc. The car was towed and the dealership found food and rat droppings under the hood. Guess the rat found a warm home during the cold winter. Later, the rat returned again so what we did was lay traps at night time (poison would kill them but they might die in the car).... and we caught the big sucker. The recommendations we got were to lay traps and some people put moth ***** under the hood because supposedly they hate the smell of moth *****.
01-09-2008, 04:15 PM
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01-10-2008, 02:42 PM
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It sounds like chipmunks to me. They are just a little bigger than a mouse. There is no way a squirrel was sitting on top of the engine eating nuts. They are way too big to fit. I have squirrels all over the place at my house and I have never had problems. I once had a cat sleeping in the engine bay of my Titan though. It was between the belts similar to the snake. That was a terrible mess to clean up. I didn't notice it until I smelled it several days later.
Good luck with the "critter" problem though.
Good luck with the "critter" problem though.
01-12-2008, 11:23 PM
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omg beestea did you get a G37?? 
edit: you did!! https://www.myg37.com/forums/g37-coupe/174913-g37-comments-after-2-weeks-of-ownership.html#post2233268
congrats man. I miss my G coupe sometimes =)
edit: you did!! https://www.myg37.com/forums/g37-coupe/174913-g37-comments-after-2-weeks-of-ownership.html#post2233268
congrats man. I miss my G coupe sometimes =)
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01-17-2008, 10:15 PM
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Fall and early winter, I used to get cats sleeping in the engine bay after I got home... They used to bring food from god knows where. I drive the next day and it smells awful. Open the hood to find chicken bone, etc.
Another time, HUGE rats... huge mouse turd and their hair all over the engine bay. I put poison and cages in the backyard. Solved the problem till next season.
Another time, HUGE rats... huge mouse turd and their hair all over the engine bay. I put poison and cages in the backyard. Solved the problem till next season.
