Ok, so long story short:

Since moving to Ballston, I don't drive my car during the week because I walk to/from metro. It's been parked in the driveway since Monday. Last night I go to take it to the grocery store and before I back out of the driveway, I hear it: a rustling/scratching sound coming from my front trunk. I get out and pop the trunk, only to find nothing. I try and look under the car but to no avail. When I got back into the car, I honked the horn. Everytime I pressed the horn, I could hear whatever is in my car scurry around.

It gets worse. I decided I needed to go to the grocery store anyways and thought I'd drive a little more spirited over the speed bumps to shake the rodent. Before I could get to the speed bumps, I noticed my speedometer/odometer/trip gauge was not working. At all. This car has been in pristine mechanical condition and I fear this rodent has chewed through the wire and more wiring is at risk if he isn't sprung from my car.

I know the gauge cluster on a '91 MR2 operates something like this:

(1)Gear inside the transmission.
(2)Cable going from tranny to "Point A" (I forget where exactly)
(3)Cable from "Point A" into the gauge cluster.

It's two cables connected together to get from the gauge cluster to the tranny. I have the service manuals but I'm not mechanically inclined to do this on my own.

Any help would be appreciated. Anyone know what the ballpark figure is for an operation like this? I know Functional03 works for a Toyota dealer in Springfield. If anyone knows a garage/dealer/person that would be able to fix this without causing any other problems to the 2, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance for any help.

-Adam

 

I think the best solution is to leave a close trail of cheese wedges from your car to Peter's car overnight. Be sure to put a big block a cheese (grand prize for the rodent) in Peter's engine bay. That should solve all your problems.

 

That's a good back up plan, Marcus. But I'd rather kill for chewing up my wires.

 

Want to borrow my roommates Glock

 

I'll settle for a BB gun if anyone has one. Hope nobody here is a PETA fan.

 

Juicy Fruit typically gets rid of rodent problems. They can't resist the sweet smell and end up choking on the gum. It doesn't work with all rodents, but it does the job on gophers and moles.

This is all I learned from growing up on a golf course.

 

First things first. A friend and I are going hunting for it tonight. Right now, I just want the thing out of my car so it doesn't do any further damage. But I'll keep that gum thing in mind. Fixing the speedo cluster is secondary. Hopefully Chris (Functional03) can help me out on that second part since he works at Springfield Toyota.

 

We used to use speed in grape jelly to get rid of them.

If you kill it make sure it is such a way that you can find it when it dies or it van get kind of funky.

 

Several years ago, my parents had some sort of rodent die in their house somewhere behind the wall, and it smelled BAD for like a week or two.

- Jeremy (jnn4v)

 

Well if that's the worst case scenario, I guess it's a good thing my car has T-tops