Dead rodent in my car....seriously!!

Scruff101

Ok so the thing is that I brought my car for a service today....there has been a smell in the car since earlier this week...and I asked them to check it out to see what the problem was. So they search the car and find 'rodent' droppings under the back seat when they lifted it!!!!!! But no sign of the rodent. The smell was not from the droppings cos the smell is still there. So my question is how the hell do I find it?! Do people think it is alive or dead? I am thinking it is dead and that is what the smell is. What should I do now?! The car is not old it's an 05!!! The garage might have to take the car apart to find it! Know this is quite an unusual post but it's also a situation I didn't expect to be in!!!!!!!

Drummerboy08

I dunno how you'll find it, but that has to be the most apt user name I've seen in a while. :pac:

biko

Actually there was a Rat in the Boot thread a while back.

listermint

some lovely spots behind the dash

Scruff101

I need some help...will I bring it to the garage and ask them to take it apart??!?!?!

peasant

A mouse can get through holes no bigger than your finger ...good luck searching

Scruff101

Great!! So do people think it's dead...yeah!? Will the smell eventually go away?!?! Sorry I have no clue!!

EPM

Yes...eventually...sorry but it's a lol moment. Try and figure out where it's strongest and dismantle that first!

peasant

Scruff101 wrote: »

Great!! So do people think it's dead...yeah!? Will the smell eventually go away?!?! Sorry I have no clue!!

Had a dead something under the floorboards in the house once ...about a month it took for the smell to dissipate

MarkR

If you can't immediately find it, I'm going to bet it's behind the dash. Or maybe it's face it mushed up against an air vent. Think of that before you blast on the heat in the morning!

biko

Put a cat in the car and see what it does? It should be able to find out where the mouse is.

Scruff101

I think this smell would even put the cat off! And it would be some cat if it could dismantle seats, dashes, etc to get the the little rodent!!!! The smell actually goes away a bit when I'm driving so it's ok to turn on he heaters! I am thinking that he got in there in the cold weather, died, froze, and now he is thawing like everything else!!! I'm raging but I can only laugh!!!!

mal1

I used to work in a factory and a fellow worker used to bring in his domestic rubbish in the back seat and boot of the car and throw it into the company skip. Needless to say that he got a fright one night when he went out to have a nap in his car during a night shift. Massive rat in the car. I saw it with my own eyes.

Do you happen to dump your rubbish using your car??:D

squod

Scruff101 wrote: »

I think this smell would even put the cat off! And it would be some cat if it could dismantle seats, dashes, etc to get the the little rodent!!!! The smell actually goes away a bit when I'm driving so it's ok to turn on he heaters! I am thinking that he got in there in the cold weather, died, froze, and now he is thawing like everything else!!! I'm raging but I can only laugh!!!!

Seriously, put a cat into your car. This is what I did when I thought I had a rat in the house. It works.

mal1

squod wrote: »

Seriously, put a cat into your car. This is what I did when I thought I had a rat in the house. It works.

Put a Jack Russell in your car. I find that they are better than cats at finding mice.

Rev. BlueJeans

A local girl here left hubby's car laid up while he did a tour of duty in Chad.

He's due back soon, and the wiring loom in the car has been mangled by a nest of rats that set up camp in the engine bay.

The cold must be a factor in all these rodents turning up in vehicles.

I give the spare vehicles in the yard a couple of slaps before using them now (big ugly old unimogs etc.)

unkel

peasant wrote: »

Had a dead something under the floorboards in the house once ...about a month it took for the smell to dissipate

That wasn't a mouse! Worst smell in the world BTW

Magnus wrote: »

Put a cat in the car and see what it does? It should be able to find out where the mouse is.

Cats have no interest at all in looking for dead rodents that smell and don't move

GTE

It reminds me of a story similar to your own where the owner of the car notcied a bad smell. Couldnt find it.

A few weeks after she turned her air from recycle to outside air and promptly got showered in bits of rat as the rat fell onto the fan blades when the lever was moved . . .

Atavan-Halen

bbk wrote: »

It reminds me of a story similar to your own where the owner of the car notcied a bad smell. Couldnt find it.

A few weeks after she turned her air from recycle to outside air and promptly got showered in bits of rat as the rat fell onto the fan blades when the lever was moved . . .

Eeeew!

GTE

atavan-halen wrote: »

Eeeew!

Its pretty bad alright. I have heard of stories of cats staying in the engine bay and falling on to the fan belt system or something and getting halved. . . .

Atavan-Halen

I know a girl in which that happened to. She turned on the car but didn't realise a cat was in the engine bay.....

junkyard

Get some embalming fluid from your local undertaker or a raw chopped onion will soak up the smell.

The-Game

atavan-halen wrote: »

I know a girl in which that happened to. She turned on the car but didn't realise a cat was in the engine bay.....

Also happened to me, they go up underneath usually on cold nights and sleep on a warm engine if you have been driving! I didnt know it was in there until i turned the car over heard a bang and something scatter across the garden, somewhat oddly. When i lifted the bonnet there was a full paw after being ripped from the socket... nasty!

Stoolbend

I drove 30 miles one morning. Pulled up at a filling station and heard a noise. I lifted the bonnet and there was a cat sitting on the plastic undertray. No idea how he managed to stay there! He looked a bit rattled to say the least.
I hadn't stopped anywhere along the way.

I guess he was lucky going by this thread!

mondeo

Saw a mouse jump up into the engine bay of my Fathers old car once. Done abit of poking about and it scurried out...I don't fancy the thought of a dead thing in my car somewhere.