Acually I think I found an answer.    Mice have to climb in
to the vanagon.    If you remove the wheels and support
it with metal jack stands with long smooth areas, mice can not
dig there nails into the jack stands and will not get into the van.
                                                   Eric

Darren Lastfogel wrote:

>When you find a method short of radiation let me know. I did'nt drive my
>vanagon for about a week and during that time I had a ground squirrel build
>a home behind the radiator cover. I store a few other VW's in my pole barn
>and its a constant battle with the mice. I once had a cat that lived in the
>barn that helped with the mice but it also draged every other kill it made
>into the barn like Rabbits, Birds, Snakes, and various other meals. They
>will find an existing way in or they will make there own opening. The best
>way to stop it is get rid of the mice.
>
>Darren
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Harris [mailto:rdh24@CORNELL.EDU]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 8:30 AM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: mice
>
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>How do mice get into Vanagons?  My Westy has mouse turds in all the nooks
>and crannies.  Nothing against mice but I would like to NOT serve as a
>rodent shelter this winter while it's in storage if possible.  But I can't
>for the life of me figure out where they would be getting in... are there
>hidden openings in the body shell I'm not thinking of?  Maybe up behind the
>dash or something?
>Robert H
>Ithaca NY
>84 WEsty "Busaru" EJ22
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