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Feb 23, 2008 | 02:20 PM

#21

wallifishrmn

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When mice enter you garage--you can't keep them out--the first thing they are after is food. I have 10 mouse traps set aroung around the inside perimeter of the garage--especially at every corner and by the door and edges of the garage door. If you do this a mouse is not going to nest in your car--it will go straight for the food--best bait is of course peanut butter--use plenty. If they eat the PB from one trap and don't set it off they always move on to the next--that gets them. Just my two cents.

Feb 23, 2008 | 03:50 PM

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ENG40

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From: Upstate New York

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Originally Posted by C3 4ME

Dryer sheets and those disc mouse traps that you dont' have to touch anything didnt' do it for me. The only thing that got rid of them is poison. I used it as a last resort because as most have said, I didn't want a mouse to crawl under the dash and die, but I figured a dead stinky mouse is better than a live one eating up my car. No signs of any mice for a couple of months now. ENG 40, I wonder if you could really find all the places those buggers could get in? They're pretty good at finding the most out of the way places.

Since I've had the entire interior out of the car it gave me the opportunity to look for any way that mice could get in and other than the ventilation system I don't think there is. The holes for the wiring etc. in the firewall are too small and the rest of the car is sealed up.
I am pretty sure they were getting in through the bypass opening beside the heater core and in one of the astroventilation tubes.

Feb 23, 2008 | 04:04 PM

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Red70vette

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From: Cortlandt Manor New York

I have used Irish Spring soap bars inside the car and traps with peanut butter around the edges. It seems to work. No mice nests in 5 years but plenty of dead ones in the traps. None inside the car or engine campartment. They seem to like peanut butter especially chunky.

Feb 23, 2008 | 05:01 PM

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GD70

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Originally Posted by rihwoods

Works for me..two vettes in garage...

I have two and always find mouse carcuses. No problems.

Feb 23, 2008 | 09:31 PM

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Richard454

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I don't know about Northern mice...but here in the south I had mice EATING the Irish Spring Soap bars...They were getting into the bathroom and chowing down on the soap.

A snap trap w/ peanut butter solved the problem...

Richard