I am only going as deep as the plastic is thick, in the cutting action. I know enough not to nick any coolant passages. I'll take the piece and make a door out of it for easy access and complete cleaning.
they will chew through the plastic housing, look for a hole in it. Besides them returning you will also never keep bulbs in it from moisture getting in it.I started my car this morning and noticed my hi-beam indicator light was on and the headlights were off?
Put on the headlights and the indicator still was on??
Got out of the car and looked and saw DS headlight was out, ok bad bulb. I had a spare on the shelf.
Removed the headlight access panel and found the housing packed full of FG insulation and nestled at the bottom were 3 recently born micelings!!!
I removed them and insulation to find all the headlight and turn signal wires chewed through; Arrgh!!!!
I have to pull the bumper cover to access the lower headlight mounting screw so I can pull the light to get to the wiring to try and repair.
How they got into the apparently sealed housing is currently a mystery that may be explained when I get the light out.
Yea, rodents will eat anything. They ate all of the insulation off of a 8' length of romex wire in my shop. When I found it all that was there was three bare copper wires. Don't know how they kept from getting fried. Somehow the wires never touched. If someone has a rodent problem they need to keep a bate trap near where they park.
Love that stuff. Mice were nesting in the instrument panel of my tractor. Used a mini spring clamp to attach a cotton ball saturated with the oil to the bottom of the opening. They haven't been back. I resoak about once a month.
Where do you purchase the oil? I've looked around and it was more expensive then I wanted to spend on mice!
We use cats, 100% effective rodent controlI have a wood working / cabinetry shop (made my living there for some years). No business there now .... but anyway went in there a few years back in the winter and discovered mice droppings.... some were bright red and some were bright blue. Really looked crazy !!!
.... the tray where we kept red and blue lumber marking crayons ... they were very wax based. Yummy
Nope. Before Christmas I had mice nest under the engine throttle body of a pickup. After cleaning it all out, I tried dryer sheets, moth balls, cayenne pepper, etc…none of it worked, they just kept coming back nightly. When I had to leave for a week I tried soaking the entire engine compartment, axles, wheels/tires with Peppermint mouse/rat deterrent spray. I even sprayed the access gaps around garage doors. When I returned a week later, I found they had just started building another nest so I think the peppermint spray probably only deterred them for 3-5 days. Since this is a second house on acreage with no pets around I decided to poison them w/ JT Eaton’s Apple Bait Blocks and put a glue trap on throttle body. Each week I would return and find 1 or 2 mice/rats dead in garage or engine compartment. After the third week I stopped seeing any sign of mice/rats And have been mouse free for 6 weeks. That stuff works great. I have since placed some small glue boards under the roller tracks on each side of the garage doors to help prevent access. For those of you worried about poisoning pets or other animals, I have a buddy that swears by Ecoclear RatX pellets. It’s FDA approved non-toxic to animals other than Rats/Mice.
