Man, this is killing me. It's too good to ride you over the internet. It must be done in person. Just the vision of you cruising down the road, firing dog biscuits out your exhaust, is more than I can handle.

 

As long as he is on his way to a Brown's game

 

I guess I'm lucky the mice in my garage only ate holes in my car cover!
Glad the problem's been solved. I was beginning to think the ghost of my old 79' Vette found your car.
Pat

 

It's like sticking a banana in the tail pipe

So Mike, is this like eating your own dog food?

 

Now this is a perfect example of why you should NOT park the XF for the winter.
But seriously, I had a similar issue with my Sante Fe. Went to change the air filter and the intake hose was chewed through, there was a "nest" in the filter box. And I didn't store the Sante Fe, drove it every day. The field mice around my place gotta go somewhere when the farmers hit the fields.
adoni

 

Now I know what they mean when they say, "Keep your enemys close, and your friends closer". Something tells me I'm going to be "haunted" by this thread for a long time.
I've been storing my "toys" during our North Eastern Ohio winters for 40 years now, and this is the first time anything like this has ever happened. I supposed Murphy's law finally caught up with me.
This is just one more reason to put "Side Pipes" on my Crossfire. With their straight thru "Chambered" muffler design, the first time I start the car, it would blow those little buggers (and their food rations) right out like a cannon.

 

Glad to hear they found the problem.
I stick steel wool in the exhaust every winter to plug the mouse house.
My brother in law had so much seed and corn stuffed in his snow blower that when he first started it this fall the engine siezed and broke the crank key. They sure can do some damage.

 

Mike,

Looks like you're going to have to Reinforce your Walls in the Garage!

 

LMAO .. Thats funny stuff.

 

Mike, (Just imagine)

A "Monster machine" pulls up alongside you, the 2nd time, after a run & whipping your a** & says, "that Crossfire is a 'Real Dog', here's another Biscuit for the Pooch"!

(Sorry Mike, I just had too, this is All too Funny!!!!)

 

Kevin called me last night, just in case I hadn't heard the good news about your car. I could hear the relief in his voice at finally discovering the problem. I won't make fun of you or your situation, not out of compassion, but because everyone else is doing such an excellent job of it.

BTW - Kevin did tell me that your Crossfire sounded pretty good without a muffler. I wish that I could have been there to hear that.

 

Ok, so if you like stock, why don't you just have the muffler cut out and wash it clean with a hose, then reweld with a sleeve? Dog food will rinse right out.

I had a mouse build a nest in between the Vee of my Viper engine once. Amazing how they get into these places. Like how did he even crawl up to your tailpipe?

 

Hey mike, you should have just told everybody it was a sensor or bad control module or something instead of getting all of this ribbing and joking. Oh by the way was it purina mouse chow or gravy train w/cheese that was stuck in your mouse trap, er I mean muffler?

 

We can now add to the worse thing about xfire thread: "World's most expensive mouse trap."

 

Or dog food storage container (just add one or more biological "agents" to move the food in)...

 

Instead of the Roach Hotel, it can be the Mike's Mouse Hotel. "They come in, but they can't get out"

 

Years ago I had a Corvette and when I stored it for the winter I always spread some moth crystals on the floor under the car. I never had a problem with mice and we lived out in the country and would get mice in the garage all the time.
Might be a good practice to start.

 

use some mouse traps with peanut butter on them works great !
mice and rat's usually chew up wiring .. wonder what they were thinking

 

+fireamx aka the pied piper to the dawg pound.

 

If you haven't already, you should tip your tech. It's been 5 weeks of crazy symptoms that nobody would believe that a muffler filled with alpo would cause.