Mice Mice and More Mice. Its a Micemobile

[ftoddt77]

2005 XC 90 seems to allow mice into the interior at will. Have looked all over for holes and can't find any. I wire meshed the air intake for Heat/Vent system and still mice get in.
Nothing like have a Beautiful car with leather and finding mice poop all over. We have placed traps all around the vechile and leave traps in the car and catch them in the car every now and then. This problem is big enough to warrent a blog on another website that has numerous folks with the same problem.

http://forums.automotive.com/70/1037...c90/index.html

Contacting Volvo Customer Care has brought no answers. You would think with such wonderful engineering and style they would solve this problem. $45,000 for a micemobile. I'll never buy another one.

[Weezy]

Dunno what to say but it sure made me laugh

[BrockyV70Turbo]

Originally Posted by ftoddt77

2005 XC 90 seems to allow mice into the interior at will. Have looked all over for holes and can't find any. I wire meshed the air intake for Heat/Vent system and still mice get in.
Nothing like have a Beautiful car with leather and finding mice poop all over. We have placed traps all around the vechile and leave traps in the car and catch them in the car every now and then. This problem is big enough to warrent a blog on another website that has numerous folks with the same problem.

http://forums.automotive.com/70/1037...c90/index.html

Contacting Volvo Customer Care has brought no answers. You would think with such wonderful engineering and style they would solve this problem. $45,000 for a micemobile. I'll never buy another one.

I have heard of this before, and the mice were actually living in the seats !!!
It might be worthwhile taking the seats out

[Blowpipe]

Originally Posted by ftoddt77

2005 XC 90 seems to allow mice into the interior at will. Have looked all over for holes and can't find any. I wire meshed the air intake for Heat/Vent system and still mice get in.
Nothing like have a Beautiful car with leather and finding mice poop all over. We have placed traps all around the vechile and leave traps in the car and catch them in the car every now and then. This problem is big enough to warrent a blog on another website that has numerous folks with the same problem.

http://forums.automotive.com/70/1037...c90/index.html

Contacting Volvo Customer Care has brought no answers. You would think with such wonderful engineering and style they would solve this problem. $45,000 for a micemobile. I'll never buy another one.

We came back from a French holiday this summer. And about four days later I was clearing out some rubbish in the back of the the car and encountered a ghecko, one of those speedy little lizards. He disappeared under the rear seats never to be seen again!

[pookie]

Once worked on a Mercedes where a family of mice munched their way into a set of wiring looms behind the dash. Cost a small fortune to fix!!!! So its not only Volvo's that the rodents like to eat!

Pookie

[veehikle]

I KNEW IT. There is NO doubt that mice are finding a direct access into Volvo XC90's.

Read the post and look at the picture. How angry would you be knowing that rodents can come and go at will and Volvo states they know nothing about it.

What I am learning is that for every owner that finds the problem, if Volvo doesn't find a solution, that person is never going to buy another Volvo, no matter how safe Volvo says it is.

http://blog.t3consortium.com/mouse-in-volvo/

This is really a problem and Volvo needs to figure out what's happening and address it.

[ChrisE]

My father had something in his Citroen Picasso a couple of years ago. It ate through a seat belt, destroyed three rear seat bits, eat the soundproofing in the boot and through the wiring to the rear of the car togther with gnawing at several trim panels over a period of 4 days, but we never saw anything. My parents were not very happy sitting in the car as they thought something was about to leap out onto them. It sounds funny now but believe me they were distressed at the time.

We tried to book the car in for repairs but the garage would not receive it until it had been cleared by a pest control specialist. When he arrived he thought that we had a rat and that it was desperately trying to find a way out! The rat man guessed that my father had brought the rat into the car with some bird seed that he had purchased the week before. He put down poison that was never touched and advised us to leave all the car doors wide open for 3 days & nights to give the rat the chance to escape. The insurance company agreed to this as my fathers house has substantial gates. We never saw the rat but the problem went away.

Are you sure that they keep getting in rather than that they are living in the car?

[XC60nick]

Originally Posted by BrockyV70Turbo

I have heard of this before, and the mice were actually living in the seats !!!
It might be worthwhile taking the seats out

No point in removing the seats, mice are quite small and will just find something else to sit on..!!!!

[Big Stew]

I've read something on another forum simular to this, caused by car booting as the mice were already in the sale stock which had been stored in the garage. Beware ! ! !

[grass hopper]

had an s60 in a few years ago with o/s/r seat belt pre tensioner open circuit,lifted the rear seat base to find the cushion foam and wiring loom under the seat gnawed through.