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Don't leave Bird food in garage
My love of birds coast me $1,500.
Bird food in garage= mice in garage Mice in garage= Mouse nest and chewed wires in my E-300 TD engine compartment. Bottom line ..Rough running and intermittent check engine light. Cost to fix $1,500. The birds can now fend for them selves.
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This post is for the birds!
Heh. I had to do it. On a serious note: Ouch. That has to sting a little. Might I suggest a small metal garbage can for storing that seed? On the little farm I grew up on, we kept the grain and such in metal bins like that. It kept the mice from infesting the place.
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Don't park your car near a Cardinal's nest during the spring...
they will repeatedly attack the outside mirrors... Good to keep those sticky mouse traps in the cars anyway... many have posted about mice getting into their cars..with no bird food involved... Do not use poison... you risk them dying up inside a panel where you can not get to them... and the whole car smelling for months.. |
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Been there, and it is just awful!!!!!!!!!! Took several months just to be able to go on short drives. And a year later you can still catch a whiff now and then. Never found the "body", and have had seats and dash out. Probably crawled down into the evap box......
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Wow, and that is in addition to your usual skunk problem....
just adding insult to injury when you can't even FIND where the problem is.... Next time I suggest spraying a lot of Fabrez around... leave for a day or so and then use Tuffstuff carpet cleaner on all carpet... and spray Lysol into the intake of the AC/heater first thing when you get into the car.. with the blower running of course... |
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Our neighbor Conny kept her Jag (a gift from her lawyer brother back east) in a small carport next to their horse barn. The horse feed and waste attracted rats, which attacked the Jag's wiring harnesses. The mechanics estimated $13,000 to replace four large harnesses plus "whatever else we find when we get in there." Net result, the car has gone to Jaguar heaven. Conny has not yet told her brother what happened to his gift.
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Sounds like a candidate for a 617 swap
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Dont feed your chickens near your mercedes. The next mornng, flocks by the masses will fly in to eat the remaining chicken food on the ground and turn your Merc into a dalmation with all the black and white spots. Poor Myrtle looked like he had a very bad case of chicken pox!!! NASTY BIRDS!!!
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[QUOTE=leathermang;2139492]Don't park your car near a Cardinal's nest during the spring...
they will repeatedly attack the outside mirrors... Boy can I relate to that one! How long do they keep attacking the mirrors? The only way I have been able to stop the daily barage of cardinal droppings down the side of the car has been to make form fitting cardboard mirror blockers with rubber bands holding them in place. This bird is driving me nuts! With my mirrors covered he's been attacking all surrounding neighbors vehicles. He's pretty consistent too, 6:00 A.M. to 9:00 A.M then nothing again until 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. '87 300SDL 255,000 '94 SL500 42,000
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Death Cars
Yeah , they _really_ stink bad .
I had a customer come into the shop , in July , in a black Squareback , some guy up North had comitted suicide in it in the woods and a bear crawled in the window and dragged him to the back area and had lunch then left , summer passed the his remains sort of melted and the fat and guts ran down into the tunnel and other inasceesable places~ the customer had bought the car (nice car BTW) from the Shirrif's auction and had the shredded interior replaced but simply could NOT sell it as the stench of death hit you when you were still 15 feet away.... In time he sold it to me cheaply and I worked on it until the stench abated a bit then I waited until January and sold it cheaply but still made a profit.... I've had death cars , kennel cars , lots of really wierd ones no one wanted , I fixed and sold all but one , it was from Hall County Georiga and was hands down the nastiest car I've ever worked on .
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A neighbor of mine had mice get into her brand new Camry. They chewed the wiring so bad it kept tripping the check engine light. It took Toyota a few weeks to figure out what happened. It was not covered under warranty. Now I see she parks over one of those ultrasonic type pest control devices- not sure if it really works.
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I've had trouble in the past with mice but not anymore. I get those little bait traps that are like 4" by 4 " that hold these little morsels of food that is poisen. I use Duck Tape and make sure all my cars have them on top of their batteries. I just barely crack the lid so they can have fun getting to the food. Then from time to time I see the amount of poisen go down or the amount of food stays the same. At first they really hit the poisen then over the years they slowed down. It sort of slows down the pesty things in the house too if you kill them ourside where they go die and you don't have to deal with them.
I will never have a car without this sort of protection. Once I had the mice chew up the ignition wires on a Buick I had but no real major damage besides that but I see where it it can be a horrible thing to have. I'd suggest everybody to do the same thing.
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I'm getting visions of Hitchcock's "The Birds". Seriously, we don't seem to have a problem with our chicken flock and carpet bombing on the cars.... Maybe it's your quantity, also we only feed them in the coop and the closed run. Also use an old water softener slurry barrel to store the feed and cracked corn, it's plastic and relatively mouse proof. Another chicken tip: We have a bakery outlet in town, and they will sell the expired bread for $3 a cartfull. The flock loves it! I feed them near the cars all the time, no leftovers for the other birds, the chickens Hoover it up rapidly. Bacon and eggs: A day's work for the chicken, a lifetime commitment for the pig. Jim
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Eeeeuuuwww! I'm going to draw the line at getting a suicide car..... Jim
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14 E250 BlueTEC black. 45k miles 95 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 66k miles 94 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 152k miles 85 300TD 4 spd man, euro bumpers and lights, 15" Pentas dark blue 274k miles Last edited by JimFreeh; 03-15-2009 at 11:40 AM. |
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