Re: Woops (was Re: [T3] '69 Square FS (NOT mine!))

[Russ wolfe <russella@prairieinet.net>]

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 08:42, Jim Adney wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2003 at 21:19, Aaron Clow wrote:
> 
> > there is a very
> > strange smell in the car. I don't know if it's rat pee
> > or what, but it's not good. The car had sat in a
> > basement for a while, then outside for a while and the
> > mice made a nice home of it.
> 
> My 69 came to me after a family of mice had obviously spent a lot of time in 
> it. The smell was quite bad for a long time, but I'm pleased that its now gone 
> to the point that only I can smell it now.
> 
> I spent a lot of time taking apart and cleaning out the corrigated plastic 
> "jugs" under the back seat. That's where they had lived, and pee'd.
> 
One trick to getting rid of the smell is coffee grounds. It kinda
absorbs the smell and smells a LOT better than mouse pee.

-- 
Russ Wolfe
'66 FB MT
'71 FB AT 
'65 Bug (not running)
russw@classicvw.org
http://www.classicvw.org



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