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- From: dye@i88.isc.com (Ken R. Dye )
- Subject: Re: How to store a car for 6 months
- Message-ID: <1993Jan06.232002.9678@i88.isc.com>
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- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 23:20:02 GMT
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- In article <C0GB4s.5B9@ns1.nodak.edu> csmith@plains.NoDak.edu (Carl Smith) writes:
- >In article <C0G172.4L0@icon.rose.hp.com> dsantos@hprnd.rose.hp.com (David Santos) writes:
- >> - Set some mouse traps in and around the car to prevent those little
- >> critters from eatting you upolstery.
- >
- >Nibbles in the upolstery are the least of your concerns with mice.
- >They have the bad habit of building nests in your heater/ac air
- >passages, and when you fire the car up for the first time after
- >many months you are hit by the intolerable stench of aged mouse
- >droppings and possibly dead decomposing mouse carcasses.
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- worse than that, they seem to love to nibble on wiring
- insulation. The smell is bad, but trying to troubleshoot
- a wiring harness with hundreds of little open circuits...
-
-
- --Ken
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