A couple of days ago I discovered I’d had an unwelcome visitor to my +4, a mouse. A couple of weeks ago some bird seed got spilt in the garage (it should have been in the shed but that’s my own fault) and got blown about the floor a bit.
On Saturday It being summer in Scotland I took it a run over the new Aberdeen bypass and when having a quick check under the bonnet noticed some seed in the vicinity of the heater air intake which I assumed had been blown there, on Sunday I noticed a bit more but again thought it had been blown there while out for the run although it did look a bit chewed.

Monday was the start of the season spruce up and again I found more chewed evidence at the same spot so started to look around a bit more to find some chewed bird seed behind the seats. Off to the nearest hardware store and purchased a couple of humane traps and one of the plug in sonic type detergents.

On checking this morning found more chewed up seed so it doesn’t appear to phased by the sonic deterrent and the gloves are off as a couple of spring traps are now set.
As I’d cleaned up all the seed I could find I wondered where it was getting a supply and had a look in the air filter inlet to see a supply stored inside.

I’ve cleaned the air filter and found some silvery and black material which I’ve found is insulation around the heater box which so far appears to be the only damage. At the moment I’ve masked off the air inlet with a note posted on the steering wheel to remind me and moved the sonic detector up to the engine bay

The droppings I’ve found are extremely small so I assume a field mouse, hope fully now it’s food supply is cut off it will disappear, watch this space.