Look in your owners manual for the fuse diagram. Nearly all vehicles have a fuse just for the interior lights. Pulling that fuse will not damage anything, it’ll just keep electricity from getting to the lights. Pulling a fuse is just like an OFF switch. You are only going to risk blowing lights or burning wires if you put a different fuse back into the slot. Before driving, just make sure there is nothing else listed on that fuse you might need like the horn, airbag or dash lights.
“Hi! My name is aha, and my new car smells of cat poo.” Nuff said.
Give him a name and start thinking of him as your watchmouse.
He tripped the mouse trap last night but apparently was too quick. So I may just go to the car wash and stick the wand down in the hole and blast away. But then I am still stuck with a drowned dead mouse in the chassis of my car.
That’ll give new meaning to the term “that new car smell”.
Keep working on the mousetraps or something. Mice do like to chew on wiring which could lead to something nasty happening.
Wrong kind of mousetrap - try a glue trap before you drown him and leave an inaccessible mouse carcass in there. You certainly don’t want dead mouse smell in your car. They don’t make air fresheners strong enough to mask * THAT*.
Mobuis74
Excellant suggestion. I am formulating a trip to walmart right now to buy a glue trap.
Hey aha, the glue trap suggestion is good, please, if after a day or two, there is no luck, change the place of the trap, ok? Otherwise, the mouse will probably “learn” where the trap is and avoid it. Also, I second beatle suggestion. Give it a name while you catch him. Right now there is a mouse in my kitchen(how the hell a mouse entered the kitchen of a ninth floor apartement, I don’t know), and mom and I named him Benny. He is good detecting the mouse traps, but I guess he is pissed off now that we blocked his way into the range/oven.
should you decide on the car wash route, use the vacuum there to vacuum the mouse.
if i remember correctly there is a company that vacuums up prarie dogs, perhaps you could call them if all else fails?
Arson.
So sorry about your new car; but just think–it’ll be one hell of a bonfire.
Couple more things…
(1) Unless your wife has a * real mean streak*, you may want to keep her from seeing mousie after he’s been stuck in the glue - not pretty - as much as she may fear mice, she probably still has a soft spot in her heart for 'em thanks to all the cutesy cartoon mice.
(2) Read the instructions regarding “best placement” for your trap(s) and do your best on that. (And, yes, ** KarlGrenze** is wise and correct about not leaving it in the same spot, especially if this becomes a drawn out * War of the Rodents*.) If your glue trap comes with no instructions, let me know.
If you have the money,you can buy one of those devices that emit super sonic sounds that only rodents can hear. People use them for getting mice out of homes and cars,so it should work. Maybe a friend has one you could borrow?(or if your really cheap buy it and then when your done, return it but you didn’t hear that from me;))
Ask Sua to run a class action for you. 
Have you tried picking the car up and shaking the mouse out?
So… Any good news?
Or has Mr. Mouse won the war?
While my car is mouse free, amazingly in the middle of summer on the fourth floor of a condo bldg, I have mice. In rooms with NO FOOD! Figure that one out.
I haven’t been able to catch these recent boogers. The whole nightmare started in late March early April when my condo became THE B & B from the neighborhood mice. The maintaince guy came and sealed (I thought) everything up, but to catch the ones already here, he told me to put down glue traps (no poison, I have stupid dogs) and put peanut butter in the middle. Yes, I know they come already baited, but those little mices cannot resist some tasty Peter Pan.
On a side note, while the guy was doing the sealing in my bedroom, I saw a mouse run from the other bedroom into the guest bathroom. I ran and got a glue trap (keep in mind this was a covered trap. Like a rectangle of cardboard with glue on the inside.)I ended up chasing it back into my room, where it ran along the heat register. Thinking that I could cut him off at the pass, I shoved the glue trap under the register where I thought he’d be in about two seconds. SQUEEAAK!! oops. I somehow managed to push the trap in at the EXACT same time the mouse ran past and squooshed it into the not quite dry sealent foam. Brian (maint guy) is cracking up because every time we tapped the trap it would squeak. I felt SO bad. Brian tried to get it out but it escaped, covered in drying foam. We never did find him, but I can’t imagine he lasted too long after that stuff dried.
yes…I am a…mouse killer…
:hangs head in shame
I am thinking the mouse probably has him locked in the trunk.
Can anyone go over to ahas place and let him out?