I replaced my cabin air filter and noticed that there was a lot of foam that was shredded into tiny bits and a lot of mouse droppings in the air filter.

I hoped that it was something the previous owner had to deal with but a week later, I checked the air filter again to make sure. Low and behold there is one mouse dropping.

I'm not sure where to begin on this one. Someone suggested rat poison but I don't want the mouse to die in my car (due to the smell). The cabin air filter is the only place I've noticed where there were any droppings at all.

I'm open to any suggestions!

 

mouse trap?

 

Contact Abbid on this site (a moderator still I believe) as I recall he had that problem a few years back.

 

Thanks, i'll get in contact with him.

 

Damn that sucks, G-luck!

 

hahahahaha

 

I got spiders living in my 8.EW FYCJ EW **** A CENTIPEDE JUST CRAWLED OVER MY KEYBOARD

 

Your one dropping could have been a residual from the previous infestation.....

 

Here's to hoping so

 

I opened the hood and left a little piece of cheese right above the headlight. It was gone within an hour. Looks like the mouse is still around. I'm going to lay some traps with cheese in that same spot tomorrow. I'll let you all know how it goes =P

 

1. buy a catless midpipe

2. warm up your car completely

3. lay a trail of cheese leading to the exhaust pipe

4. stake out in the rx8, when you see him make his move....

5.

***melted cheese may be served on nachos!

 

Haven't you ever seen wanted?

Mouses and rats like peanut butter lmao

 

haahahahha that is funny...

 

Oh know...............the rodents are back! There are a few threads on this subject. It happens more than you'd think. Try a search! Some are pretty funny!

 

Mice love the exterior side of the cabin air filter for a nesting space (vehicle outside covered). They took some of my firewall insulation from above the washer bottle in there last Winter.

First time it happened was last season, but presuambly as we had an unusual 6-week stretch of heavy snow cover and the next door cats couldn't patrol.

This Winter a sock full of mothballs goes in there.

Very atypical to have problems in warm weather as they've got better places to be.

 

Careful he could be a feisty one

 

Had the exact same thing happen, including taking insulation from the firewall as nesting material. Only happened in the winter tho.

Just find some repellent chemical of some sort and you'll be fine...

 

I once had mice using my airbox to store food. I put an electric mouse trap in the garage and no longer had that issue.

 

Oh yeah, I had acorns laying on the exterior side of my intake air filter too. With my fairly tight fitting cover and now RB intake duct hopefully they can no longer get into my intake. But again, last Winter was atypical.

 

They do, it works extremely well and it's significantly harder to get peanut butter off a mouse trap without triggering it.

 

the 8 is so sexy even mice love it

 

That's what they use on "Verminators."

 

I tried that once...it took a few days of driving after removing the mothballs before my lungs stopped burning.

 

Well, I'm not advocating putting it right next to the cabin air filter inlet; just engine bay area. Even on the ground under the engine bay will do.

 

dude there was a rat in my racing beat exhaust haha it was funny