mouse proofing

with winter around the corner, any tips on keeping mickey out of that custom interior?

 

If you don't mind the smell of moth balls that'll keep out the mice

 

plutonium

 

Put a ball bearing mouse trap in the garage with it...........You know,a hungry Tom cat

 

I'd put a bunch of mouse poison around it and Irish Spring soap shavings inside of it. I wouldn't use mothballs.

 

A couple of stickey glue traps in the floorboards with some peanuts in them will catch them if the do make it in. Just check on them once in a while!

 

Irish Spring in the green box. Had a couple old timers tell this! They swear by it and it smells good too!! John

 

surround the car with a couple rows of traps. buy em in bulk on ebay

 

Always set mouse traps around the garage if you have a nice car, or one you don't want mice in. That will tell you if you have mouse activity. Set out like 6-8 traps, the more traps that are tripped or have inhabitants, that's a good indicator how much action you have.

Bob

 

or you could buy one of these

 

Bounce fabric softener sheets. A couple in the trunk and a couple in the cab. Seems to work for me. Tom...

 

I've heard 'whole cloves' also.

I've used the bounce sheets, irish spring, poison, and glue traps, with varying success.

Pete

 

A small cougar to roam the garage.

 

Why yes !! I give this hairy little ****er a cup of coffee every morning and he stays right on top of the desk all day >>>>.

 

john deere dealership sell a product called fresh cab. it works great. i work for a dealer ship and tried it and it works. its all natural kind of a balsom sent (pine). if you need the part # let me know john

 

Around here the damn things will build a nest in your daily driver so we clean out heater fans on a regular basis. There was a product a few years ago that some of my customers raved about. Seems that it was developed for commercial airlines as a spray lubricant used on the landing gear with a mouse repellent added. I thought it was marketed as Mouse Away or something similar.

 

Just keep driving it and the mice won't be able to get in it.

 

I use lots of traps. If you use poison you could have dead smellys in your car.

 

the only thing I have found to work 100% is moth balls, the trick to get rid of the smell in the spring is to sprinkle coffee grounds on the carpet, let it sit for a few days and vacuum them up

 

I use Bounce fabric softener sheets, they are cheap and they smell good not like moth balls.

 

I heard about this one the other day...might be worth a try.

http://www.hastingsreserve.org/Mammals/MiceInCars.html

Basically you build a skirt of metal flashing around the whole car and the mice can't get over it.

 

repeating peanut ****er bucket trap. If you see mice with life jackets on yer porbably in trouble.

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/easterly110.html

 

Moth balls don't work. Several years ago I put moth balls all over the inside of a car about half a box, I put the remaining half full box in the glove compartment. In the spring I found a mouse nest built in the half full box of moth balls.

 

Probably why they're called moth balls and not mouse balls. I've had the same results with moth balls, some mice don't seem to mind them at all.

 

I like this one. I can just see the look of panic on they're cute little face when they slide into the water. Hey you sob how long can you tread water you M.F.? Help! Help! Nobody there Mickey....eat **** and die.
The little *******s built a condo up on top of the cardboard roof panel in my '37 chev pick up. Tried the moth balls, didn't work.

 

^ i like that^ its like a little hoodini torcher chamber!

 

Dry sheets, doesn't have to be Bounce sheets. Put one each in your exhaust tips, and one or two under the hood, in the car's interior, and in the trunk. ****ter a few around the garage. Works good!

 

If your going to park it for a long while without starting it up don't forget to put some sort of cap on the exhaust pipe like a soda can with the end cut off. Mice will crawl in there and build a nest in the pipe of even in the motor.

 

the water bucket is PETA approved! used to have one similar but every once in a while one would escape so went to the "deluxe" model: 3# coffes can half filled with old motor oil, at the top of the can punch a hole on each side so you can install a "mouse t****eze wire". get a soda can and run a piece of bailing wire through both ends of soda can so it rolls like a barrel,attach wire to each side of coffee can and put a tiny spot of peanut ****er on that soda can. the little muther ****ers just cant resist. they crawl out onto that wire hit the smooth soda can and fall into the oil and drown! when you get tired of that set the can so they can jump off a ledge onto the can, kinda like watching them commit suicide!