Hey Guys,

It's getting consistently cold out now so I doubt I will be driving the vette much anymore.

That said, in the past I have put irish spring soap around the wheels of the corvette and never had an issue with mice. Last year, I forgot to do it and mice made a nice home out of my car cover bag on the back of my car (under the car cover). Luckily no paint damage was done.

This year I was proactive and when the temperatures started dropping in September I put the soap around the perimeter of my garage to try to deter any mice from coming in. However, this past Sunday, I got the car out and while it was idling (waiting on the wife to come out) I notice a field mouse under the car. It ran off but that leads me to believe they are already in the garage and may be in the car somewhere.

So I wanted to reach out and ask for suggestions to keep my car mouse free. I will leave the soap around the perimeter and put soap around the wheels too. Is there more I should do?

If I put some traps out, would that just entice more to come into the garage because of the food or would that get rid of the ones I have?

It is a single car garage, at an apartment, detached from the building, and is not climate controlled. I have plugged holes in the garage as much as I can, but there are still some openings where they could get it. So it really comes down to preventing them from getting in the car.

Thanks.

 

Snap traps and peanut butter...

When I had mice in my house - they actually ATE & gnawed on Irish spring bars!!!

I guess the mice are tougher down here!!!

Richard

 

I have the electric rodent devises that you plug in they seam to work

 

Bounce fabric freshener sheets. Put them in car and it smells fresh too. Around doors. Always used in motorhome and no mice

 

Should I crack the windows to let some air out of the car? I feel the smell would take over everything.

 

This is what can happen when mice do get in a car. The previous owner hooked the battery up in the spring and all hell broke loose. smoke from in the console. It turns out mice got in and started dining on some wires. Fortunately just the interior was lost, not the entire car.

I've always used Bounce sheets with good success.

It's now my winter project.

Allan

 

Only way to completely get rid of mice is to plug up the holes...fought this battle a couple times (won 1 war and lost a few battles because I didn't know what I was doing). Buy some mesh screen or steel wool and spray foam any openings/holes you can find. Then put out traps. If you think there is 1 mouse, there are probably a dozen or more.

Mice can fit through a pencil sized hole, so remember that. Like I said... the only way to completely get rid of them is to take out their entrances/exits and then trap. If you just bait/trap without sealing the holes, forget it. I had probably a hundred in my garage at my previous house which was a new house (mice don't discriminate), was a losing battle. I'd catch 4-6 a day, but that only thinned the heard for a while.

After we moved, I had them coming into my finished basement. It was war. I found that they were coming in through the hole behind the electrical box. Sealed that up and poof... problem done in a matter of days and haven't had issues in 3 years now (crossing fingers).

So my 2 cents, you might win small skirmishes with these suckers by just trapping or whatever... or you can be smart about it and win the war.

 

I use moth ***** in the garage by the doors of the garage and bounce fabric sheets in the car.

 

I use the glue traps .cheap and easy .

 

I caught a mouse in a pail once, dropped in one of those electric gizmos plugged into the end of an extension cord, mouse just sat there. Wasn't fazed in the least. Maybe a different brand is better, no idea.


I put them under the seats, in the wiper cowl area by the end screens and stuff one in each tailpipe. Lay one on the floor on each floorboard as well. One in each storage compartment, glovebox (if so equipped) and a few scattered around the engine compartment. Make a list of where you put them and sit the list on the dash of the car so you remember to remove them all in the spring.


I open mine about 2". The smell of the dryersheets aren't to bad, at least the ones I use. Not "Bounce" but some no-name cheepies.

Ive tried cedar scented *****, seemed to be ok. Put down some cardboard on the cement floor, Ive seen MB's damage old concrete as they dissolve.

I make up a "wheel-of-death". 5gallon pail, popcan suspended across a section of wire over the pails open end. 4-5" of windshield washer fluid or water/anti freeze mixture (so it doesn't freeze) in the bottom for the mouse/critter to drown in. Put peanut butter on the can and around the edge of the pail a few inches down, lay wood, plywood or whatever on the edge of the pail down to the floor as a runway for the critters to get to the top of the pail. They'll reach for the PB and fall in and drown.

AF works better that WW fluid. When they die they wont stink. With WW fluid the critters will stink after awhile. If you have easy access to the pail over the winter and depending on the winter temps you could get away with water only.

If a cat or dog could gain access to the pail don't use AF, use WW fluid.

 

Go to You Tube and enter mouse traps the wood ramp to the bucket is the best

 

The garage door doesn't seal. That is the main problem.

 

Always wondered why the cats like to hang with me in the garage. Haven't seen a mouse or Rat in years.

 

have 4 cats therefore no mice problems, on the flip side they do bring a lot of dead critters to the front door.

 

we had a mouse problem in my warehouse where I also have three cars, rotate the cars about every two weeks driving;one day aweful smell, just aweful! finally opened the hood and mouse ****;cleaned that off but smell peristet;for the world of me coould not figure it ouot where smell came from;then removed the driver seat and a dead dehydrated mouse there;man that smell!!! Now 3 months later with lots of cleaning and dodorizers it finally is almost gone. Puhhh. Thanks for all the tips

 

I am trying the bucket trap. Last night I didn't' catch anything and no peanut better was eaten. Maybe the mouse was a fluke. I will give a few more days.

 

Car capsule!

 

Snap traps. I have 4 in the garage and 2 outside. Got 1 inside since September and 12 outside. Seems like they really like Jif chunky. When I put the cars up at the end of November I use cotton ***** with peppermint oil on them and leave the traps set all the time.

 

I use a lot of moth *****, both inside the car and in the garage.

 

I use the urinal cakes under the car....That has worked for 2 years.

Brian