Mouse pee and carpets

[fishmens67]

Simple baking soda will neutralize mouse urine.
I wouldn't think it would be very hard to find a cleaner that would make it smell better.
Neutralize by leaving soda sit for several hours, vacuum and then clean.
A simple spray in the heater ducts with Lysol will also neutralize any droppings or urine.

 

[fishmens67]

Lets do an update on this

I had it detailed, and i ripped the carpet out, No luck, still smelled terrible

At some point i called the dealer and asked them if they ever dealt with this, their response ?

Nope, we usually send it to a body shop and let the insurance deal with it

Ok, Great idea

So i took it to the Body Shop and told them they could spend 500 dollars worth of time looking for it, because that s my deductible, if they hadnt found a nest by then well reevaluate

Point of clarification, the insurance said they would cover it IF we could show proof something got in there, a nest, a big wad of chewed up wiring, a dead mouse, something tangible

Well, the body shop pulled half the car apart, ran a camera through the ducts and basically found nothing

Great

The insurance decided to close the claim (but said they could reopen it if we found something)

I talked to the body shop and he thought we should replace the ducting, $1900 dollar job and he was about 70% sure that would resolve the issue

Ok, go ahead, I mean, it's probably gonna cost me 12-16k to replace the car if we don't fix it, and I simply don't want to drive it like this, so have at it


About 3 days into the job he send me this

Apparently, a mouse climbed into the dash and build a nest there

this was all the insurance needed to pick up the bill, and hopefully we can convince them it needs new carpet too (doesn't sound like that will be a stretch)

This is what the car looked like yesterday, waiting on a new dash to arrive

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OH MY. lol I could have done it without doing all that. Fumigation with commercial neutralizer works wonders. You should have talked to my son at his pest control company.
His company disinfects a complete house with much less work.

 

[diymirage]

OH MY. lol I could have done it without doing all that. Fumigation with commercial neutralizer works wonders. You should have talked to my son at his pest control company.
His company disinfects a complete house with much less work.

I didn't want it "just" disinfected, I wanted the best gone

But even if you just want to desinfect it, you would have to get at it first

 

[fishmens67]

I wanted the best gone

Did they pack food in or did they chew the wires, usually it's either or.
I plowed snow all winter and found a mouse nest in the fresh air duct running to the air filter housing on my 2020 Ford F350.

 

[diymirage]

Did they pack food in or did they chew the wires, usually it's either or.
I plowed snow all winter and found a mouse nest in the fresh air duct running to the air filter housing on my 2020 Ford F350.

Nope didn't see any of that


Do you keep the Ford outside ?
This car sat under a carport all winter

 

[fishmens67]

Do you keep the Ford outside ?

Yes and I couldn't believe it when I found it. They packed in a bunch of grain and grass, like they were there for the winter and gone before I found it.
It wasn't there during the fall service.
I know it sucks what you're going through but I'm glad they didn't chew any wiring, that would be bad.

 

[MMissile]

I bought a pickup some time back, that had been in a N. Dakota grain-farm barn for 3 decades, with the windows down. I had to throw away the rubber mat, rebuild the entire seat, and washed/scrubbed the steel floors 3 times with about a gallon of Lysol. It sat in the driveway that summer, for about 3 weeks with the windows down/in the sun. Finally, the smell was gone....even with wet floors. I pulled the plugs out of the of the rockers, and washed enough grain out, to fill a bucket about 3 gallons worth of grain.

 

[pauly]

Dude!

 

[diymirage]

Dude!

No kidding, this turned out to be a project

On the bright side, the insurance will even reinburse me for the detailing cost

 

[Mtrhead]

Cool Dude