anyone tried Syran wrapping their car??????????

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Current
2006 E320 CDI, 57K bought at 67K "Liesl"
1986 190E 2.3-16, 198K bought at 56K "Brigitta"
1987 300TD (Chuggin Along), 292K "Friedrich"
1995 E320 Wagon, 200K "Louisa"

Past
1987 300SDL, (sold) 125K, bought for 1$ "Kurt"

China has her own way of dealing with rodents:

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

See Jimmy, that's what happens when you store cheese in the blower motor assembly.

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

I had a chipmunk temporarily living in the engine compartment of my 240D. Left a couple of nuts.

He was gone and never came back after I fired up the car with him in the engine compartment (I've never seen a chipmunk run so fast across a parking lot)

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1982 240D, sold 9/17/2008
1987 300D TurboW124.133 - 603.960, 722.317 - Smoke Silver Metallic / Medium Red (702/177), acquired 8/15/2009
262,715 and counting

Nice. How many times did you turn on that blower and get a blast of rotting mouse wind in your face?

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Chad
2006 Nissan Pathfinder LE
1998 Acura 3.0 CL
OBK#44
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

SOLD
1985 300TD - Red Dragon
1986 300SDL - Coda
1991 - 300TE
1995 - E320
1985 300CD - Gladys

Jimmy, ya gotta feed those little critters if you want your blower to work.

Poor little guy got all tuckered out.

He actually looks like the low speed critter.

If you want more volumn, ya gotta get a Warf Rat. they run faster

Charlie

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there were three HP ratings on the OM616...

1) Not much power
2) Even less power
3) Not nearly enough power!! 240D w/auto

Anyone that thinks a 240D is slow drives too fast.

80 240D Naturally Exasperated, 4-Spd 388k DD 150mph spedo 3:58 Diff

We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works

That's actually a hamster cage hooked up to the driveshaft. Increases 240D horsepower 37%. Like Charlie said, you gotta feed 'em!

Yesterday when I started up my drill press in my garage, I heard a new noise, kind of a rattling, crunching sound. You guessed it - nuts! I last used it about a month ago. It's not a daily driller... So I set a snap trap, and this morning I find the bait gone, trap still set. Now the bait is wired onto the trigger.
My RV owner friend is trying the mothball method - got it out of an RV magazine. My idea is to keep the mothballs in a small jar with a good sealable cap, so you can contain the stuff when you don't need it stinking up the place. Mothballs are poisonous. If you smell it, you're getting it in your nose and lungs. Wikipedia "mothballs".
Steve

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1980 300 TD

1997 Dodge Pickup/Cummins 5.9 12-valve

When I lived back in the city of Erie there was this neighbor's cat that for some reason loved to crawl up into the engine block of my old accord.

Needless to say I always left the hood a little cracked so I could scare it away before starting my car up. I would feel terrible if I killed the little thing.

I feel kinda bad for that rodent too. Imagine what the little guy was thinking when it started to spin.

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-Typos courtesy of my mobile phone.

Weeee come to mind!!! Then Oh Ship....

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92 300D 2.5L OM602 OBK #59

OOO I did this to my friend once in high school.

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-Typos courtesy of my mobile phone.

The year was 2003. The car was a 2001 Chrysler 300M.

Riding to church one sunday, the lights started blinking and we were going 110mph pulling out of my driveway, at least that is what the speedometer told me.

The car was still under warranty so the dealer got to have a look. An animal had eaten up the wires, or taken the insulation off of the wires for a warm nest all over the engine. I didn't believe it until I saw a multicolored next the next Spring. State Farm didn't believe it either, but they picked up the $2500 bill, to my mother's delight.

My newest vehicle (300CD) also had a rodent problem, with a nice dead mouse surprise behind the radio... not to mention the chewed up jute insulation tucked away all over the car (in the headliner, center console, etc...) and destroyed wiring under the center console. Not a pretty site.

At least some of the more modern cooling fan set ups have reduced the chopped up cats and fur flying out the hood gaps. It would happen once every few years to me when they crawled up on the engine for the residual heat.

The very last one I got was our own cat. He had a major laceration but recovered. I will try the bucket and sunflower seed approach. I assume they must smell the sunflower seeds and come running. Good ideal.

Back before I got my '81 300TD (a.k.a. the Dark Ages) I lived in the Missouri Ozarks, deep in the woods. One day my Chevy Van would turn over but not start. I come to find out that they have these !@#$ Pack Rats there that are very destructive! I fixed the chewed-through coil wire and hung mothballs in the engine compartment. People could smell me coming a mile away.

Things were good for a coupla weeks until the same thing happened. By then, the top of the V8 was 2 inches deep in nut hulls. The same wire was chewed through right at the splice. So mothballs did not work for me.

I was remodeling a house in those same woods and noticed some strange damage to an area of drywall. I cut it out to patch it and there was a pack rat nest in the cavity. The rat had chewed out all of the gypsum leaving just the thin paper. To make matters worse, it had chewed completely through a 3/4" PVC water line. Just lucky I found it before the water was hooked up.

After that, I'll take our little Ohio field mice any day!