About a week ago I noticed a rather large cat camped out on the hood of my Mini. After chasing the cat away I heard some commotion under the hood. Upon raising the hood 3 squirrels came flying out. One did a quick dance around a tree and then went back into the engine compartment. Only after starting the car did he/she finally leave permanently. They had pulled the insulation from the hood and had started making a nest - literally craming the stuff amongst the engine components. Anyone have any suggestions as to how to prevent a reinfestation. Someone had suggested moth *****? :???:

 

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If you want to be able to run stock at the track I’d say get the Cat Back.

 

sit quietly in the MINI,and when the little vermin are snoozeing start the car, on the hammer
hard,and hope something bad happens to them. My truck sat for a few days and the
fuzzy little f()k darlings did some very bad things under there :evil:


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Bwahahaha! I did not know that chasing away squirrels was an added feature of a cat-back exhaust!

 

Here is Germany ther are little rodents that are part of the weisel family that nest in the warm engine compartment. Luckly they sell a liquid spray that I use and haven't had any problems. Maybe you can search the local auto parts store for some kind of spray?

 

Someone told me that the little green wax thingys that some people hang from their plants to keep dogs and cats away work well for "rodentia". I haven't tried them so I don't have any first hand knowledge.

Problem is: engine heat will probably melt the wax. You could encircle the MINI with them in the garage, though!



Theo

 

>>If you want to be able to run stock at the track I’d say get the Cat Back.

 

Did you really think that an MCS was 163 HORSE power? No it has always been 163 SQUIRREL power. Looks like you're down from stock. Could they have been trying to install a cold air intake??

 

My neighbor was in his garage cleaning his MINI engine.

He had a small open container of gasoline sitting there to dip parts into. A local mutt of a dog came into the garage and after watching us, walked over to the open gas. He took about 3 big swiggs of the gas, stood up on his hind legs, let out an unbelievable howl and his eyes popped out as big as the MINI's front lights!

The dog took out of the garage at about 90 mph, ran aound the house 3 times and fell over in the driveway and laid totally motionless.

I ran over to him and bent down really close. The MINI owner yelled out "Is he dead?"

"Nope," I replied, "......just ran out of gas!"

 

What you need is a Watch Beagle. Trained to
sniff out and chase away squirrels... ever on the
job, a Watch Beagle will be as much your friend
as the squirrel's enemy... once your Watch Beagle
learns the perimeters of your property, you will
rest easy... and squirrel-less.

Dogspeed.

 

This is what I used to keep the chipmunks out of my MINI engine. It's worked so far!

LINK

 

>>About a week ago I noticed a rather large cat camped out on the hood of my Mini. After chasing the cat away I heard some commotion under the hood. Upon raising the hood 3 squirrels came flying out. One did a quick dance around a tree and then went back into the engine compartment. Only after starting the car did he/she finally leave permanently. They had pulled the insulation from the hood and had started making a nest - literally craming the stuff amongst the engine components. Anyone have any suggestions as to how to prevent a reinfestation. Someone had suggested moth *****?

 

Perhaps I could send the BIG BLACK snake I found under my MINI to you
Unfortunately he disappeared & I'm still looking for him.

Lo

 

>>Someone suggested a strobe light.
>>So placed a stobe light in the attic and a speaker to played Techno when ever I hear then rustling.
>>
>>After about 3 week no more squirels!

Lucky you weren't in San Francisco. Strobe lights and techno = SQUIRREL RAVE!!!!!! Be careful or you are going to be busted when they find a bunch of ecstasy dealing squirrels in your attic.

Cheers,