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My girlfriend bought a fairly new house out in the country, manufactured, trucked there and the two halves bolted together. Once moved in she began hearing the mice running around on top of the ceiling wallboard. I went up and began setting traps (prior owner had had the problem, too, D-Con trays all over), and was catching an endless stream of mice. Then one day I looked at the end wall of the crawl space and noticed a strip about an inch wide where you could see daylight thru the vinyl siding - - no sheathing there.
Turns out, they stopped the sheathing about 1/2" back from the end of the end wall framing studs at the center of the house. So when the studs were bolted together there was a long 1" x 1/2" channel up from the foundation to the attic, where there was no framing in the gable end walls at the joint. The mice were climbing straight up this elevator shaft and stepping off onto her insulated heated ceilings. Mouse heaven.
When I looked up under the siding at each end of the house I could see where the mice bodies had actually polished the edges of the waferweld where they had been sliding in and out on their climbs.
I stuffed stainless scrubber pads into each tunnel, and also at the corner end vinyl siding trim pieces, and the mouse problem instantly went away.
But on the Saab you have several potential entrance points including any unseen rust holes in the bodywork down under.
And the problem that mice need practically nothing to sustain life and they could actually set up multi-generational residence inside once having gotten in. They can jump in when you leave a car door or trunk open, maintain life on crumbs and condensed moisture and whatever rainwater leaks in.
I bought a '90 parts car and stripped lots off it, including the headliner panel. To my surprise I found an inhabited mouse nest up above the headliner, made up partly of chewed fiberglass headliner board and god knows what all else. It looked snug and warm and of course it had liberal mouse poop and piss.
That car was sound and entire and it wasn't clear how they got inside.
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