So I go to start my Fit this morning which is in the garage and still under 7k miles on it, it barely starts and 2 dummy lights are on, the engine and the traction control. WTF? Worked fine yesterday. It seemed to drive fine, go to bank and when I went to start it back up, it didn't start the first couple of times but then finally it did.

So then figured I better go directly to the dealer's service center which glad I did because it wouldn't start up again. Turns out a mouse that thought he was a mechanic got in there and chewed up my map sensor wires.
nearly $300 for a new wire harness and labor.

Immediately went to hardware store and now have 4 boxes of rat poison in the garage, 2 old fashioned neck breakers and 2 glue traps....That bastard is mine. For that $300 I'm gonna have it stuffed and mounted. My next plan is to just burn the whole garage down until I'm sure he is dead.

I'm at least glad it didn't fry the computer or anything, could have been worse I'm sure but just sucks to wake up and lose $300 because of a little ol mouse just trying to keep warm. Lesson learned, always keep rat poison in garages.

 

Peanut butter on the neck crackers is what I use. I suppose a couple stray cats left in the garage would work too. Once they are fattened up on mice I can give you a recipe.

I have a chipmunk that shits in my cabin filter.

 

Save the traps too. I had an exterminator tell me that a 'used' trap will attract mice. I believe him. I once emptied a trap, reset it, put it back in its little dark place, and heard it thwack within 30 seconds. Sure enough it had scored another victim.
I had one (or more?) that was using my air cleaner box for storage. Had to put a piece of steel mesh across the opening in the fender well to keep the beggar out.

Our almost-new dishwasher quit working on Christmas Day. Mice had chewed on an electrical connector on the water solenoid. More steel mesh hopefully put an end to that too.

 

Is this opening on the inside under hood on fender well or in the wheel well? I sure do want to put some mesh in there.