Just got back from our holiday in the snow. Had a disaster of small proportions on the way home when the sump of the family estate car was smashed by a football sized chunk of ice thrown at us by a truck, but that's another story . . .

The question is, does anyone have a foolproof way of keeping mice from eating our beloved Corvettes?

'Cos when we got home we found that mice had not only eaten their way into the glove box of our little Suzuki jeep and half eaten the owners' manual, as well as most the cables under the hood, but they had also:

1. Eaten through my posh new Mid America triple layer cover

2. AND then munched chunks out of both sides of the cabin seal around the windows; that's the expensive seal!

So now I've got lethal sprung traps and some ultrasonic scarers and an optimistic view of the future.

So any ideas on the matter would be most welcome!

TTFN

 

Here is a very cool trap!!



The can can spin around on the stick at the top of the plastic pail. The can is coated with peanut butter. The Botton of the plastic pail is 1/2 full of 50/50 antifreeze/water. You can get 5-6 a night!!

 

Now thats a trap!

 

Bill Curlee .. wow. Just wow ...

 

That homemade trap is simply awesome!

 

I put two or three DeCon Mouse Proof packets around in the garage. It the cardboard packet’s of bait that have the little green colored bait pellets in a small box. Within a few days, you’ll see green colored mouse dropping on the countertops and on the floor. A few days later, you’ll see their little corpus on the garage floor.

 

You should put a small amount of gasoline in the bottom of the bucket, and an igniter tripped by the spinning can.....

 

Do you have any designs for catching a pesky mole????????

 

I love the Corvette Forum sticker on the bucket .....

 

[QUOTE=Bill Curlee]Here is a very cool trap!!

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Very clever design!

 

I have heard that a bar of Irish Spring soap in the interior will keep them out. Dirty little buggers!!!!!

 

wow thats very cool

 

Nice mousetrap, Bill. Other more standard traps would work also. Mothballs under the hood keeps mice away.

 

This is not my design. Another forum member frowarded me the picture. He said that he was VERY successful using it. It is very cool. I repost it everytime I see a mouse story!

Here is a Mouse story for you.

My 98 coupe had a very bad electrical problem and was running poorly last winter when it was extremely COLD. It was parked outside under the cover for about 2 weeks. It was very warm out one day and I decided to crank her up and take a ride to see if maybe the warmer weather would make a difference.

I sliped the key in, mashed in the clutch, turned the key to start and she fired right up. ALL OF A SUDDEN the entire dash started to shake and a loud roaring noise started happening! I almost SH!# my pants. I thought sure as hell the engine blew!

Just as I was reaching for the key to kill the engine, this nasty cloud of dust, dirt, bits of paper and a horid odor came out of the center dash vent!!

Talk about being relieved!!!

What had happened was a mouse had built a huge nest in the HVAC squirel cage fan and the blower speed (just my luck) was on high.

It took me about 5 hours to take everything apart, get all of that nest out of the vent ducts and eveporator and reassemble everything.

I keep snap traps under the car and two velcroed to the top of the battery. I got the suckers! Three of them!!!!



Bill

 

I love this forum! That mouse trap has me in tears!!!!

 

Very Cool.....

 

Bill, Thanks for posting the pic of my infamous mouse trap. (I don't claim to be the inventor.) There have been quite a few fatalities in that bucket. I can't believe the original poster said his Suzuki was attacked. I recently started my Suzuki woods truck that I keep outside. An entire mouse nest blew out the tailpipe. Unfortunately the occupants didn't make it out of their gas chamber. I can only imagine what it will smell like next spring.

 

Suzuki,,,,,,,,,They must of been RICE MICE!!!!!!!!!

 

Pull off your wheels and store on jack stands

 

Traps, meh. Here's the best mousetrap of them all!



He sleeps inside the garage right behind the covered Vette