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Old Feb 20th, 2009, 11:18 AM
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jazzaj2003
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Dead mouse smell in car!

There's a terrible smell like a dead mouse, inside my car.

Basically i have seen mice and rats around the car.



I located the smell coming inside the car from the left ventilation duct.

None of the other ventilation ducts are effected, it only stinks like dead mouse on the far right one drivers side one.

Additionally, when I open the engine bay, I get the occasional powerful waft of stink coming from that area, and only that area, of the engine.

However I can't see anything.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
I've already pulled up the grill near the windscreen, they are clear underneath.

Does anyone know of any cavities it could have crawled through and died in?

Could if access the interior or under the dash of the car, from the outside?

I opened the bonnet and saw those black foam rubber parts (you know the ones on the upper right and upper left side of the engine bay , they are like 2 "stoppers" that kinda are shoved in there and can be pulled out.
On the right hand side the foam rubber stopper had a hole chewed through it!

This is horrible the smell is getting worse, it's now kinda overpowering and the car is hard to get into and i'm driving with my windows down.

Also who could I take it to? Mechanic or panel beaters to locate a damned dead mouse?

Is there a space underneath the dash that it could have died in?

I got a 2003 mini (not the S)
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