Have heard stories about mice getting into stored cars and eating insulation from wires, nests in air cleaners etc. Do you do anything to anti mouse your when putting up for the winter?

 

I put moth ball under the hood, Not sure if it's deterrent or not. I put them around the garage door also. I was afraid to use decon. I thought it may draw them in. The garage will be closed up till spring.

 

I've used everything short of a cat: mouse traps, poison blocks, sticky traps, dryer sheets, moth *****, peppermint, rubber snakes, still got wiring eaten to the tune of many dollars to re-do and mice living under the dash. If you have a garage I recommend the car capsule; keeps the car "hermetically" sealed. At $450 or so it is a lot cheaper than dealing with problems caused by mice.

 

supposedly work well. You can buy mice repellent at tractor supply. Stuff socks in tail pipes.

I have more than 10 bounce sheets in the open spots and under the hood.

Good luck!

 

It's a serious problem. About a year ago I posted about a freind who lost her 02 Boxter. The mice did so much damage, the car was totalled. You couldn't see any damage looking at the car.
I use the decon poison. The problem is, it doesn't kill them right away so they can do some damage before they die. But it really does kill them. Traps work, but you have to have bait that will attracked them and will last. There is a product called Critter Ridder. Don't know if it works for mice but they claim it detters animals from eating flowers. Maybe it will work for Corvettes?

 

Luckily no rat/mice problem at my current place. Whenever I did have that problem, I went with peanut butter and sticky traps. Sticky traps work because the stuck mouse/rat will start screaming for his buds to come help him, and then they get stuck. You will occasionally have to smash them dead once stuck.

 

I have traps set with peanut butter, but no mice anymore. Last year, I had dryer sheets and moth ***** set so well in and around the Vette, that they went into my Wifes new Acura and I had to spend 300$ to get the blower motor cleaned out as well as the filter changed. At least they stayed away from the Vette. You can also use Peppermint Oil. They hate that smell!

 

I have never seen a mouse (or evidence of one) in my garage, but this year I have started putting some Bounce dryer sheets in the engine bay and in the passenger compartment just to be on the safe side. I plan to keep an eye on the car while in storage just to make sure no critters get in there.

 

I had mice under the backseat of my Mustang GT years ago so I put a box of D-con on top of each tire when I parked it and kept a couple of boxes inside the trunk. After a couple of days they were gone.

 

The problem with D-con is the mice die but usually it's in a place you can't see or get to. That's why I use glue trays with a dab of peanut butter. You know when you get them. I have glue traps, dryer sheets, Irish spring and I have mothballs under the hood, in the cabin and placed under the car every few feet. I have had mice eat the wiring of my Subaru and they ate the battery cover of my GMC.

 

I live in the middle of a corn field in central IL. There are a lot of mice.

I tried the poison, but I find it carried to a lot of places including in the air cleaner, on top of the battery, etc. The poison may work, but it works too slow and the mice still have a chance to damage stuff before they die.

I tried the sonic repellents, but I still get mice. I still use them because I figure they can't hurt.

I use traps. I have about a dozen of them around the garage. I use the yellow plastic without any food attached, just the yellow pad. They trip easier than the metal ones and I catch a lot of mice. The key to using them is to put them in places where the mice like to run, like around the edge of the garage at the base board. I frequently get 2 or 3 a week. I have had no damage to the cars since I started using this many traps.

When I first built the garage, I had one get under the hood and eat the battery surround/cover on my truck, and one got under the fuel rail cover and ate the insulation off the injector wiring on my '94 Corvette.

I still don't know how they get in. I can't see any openings since I have filled the small ones.

For now I keep using the traps and checking them daily.

 

Use Irish Spring Soap.

They hate the stuff.

Buy 6 or 8 bars, cut them in half, put a coupe under the car, under the
dash, in the back, in the engine compartment and in the tail pipes.

Regards
Chip

 

I have always had at least one house cat and not had a mouse
in any of my homes or garage for 40 years. The mice know they
are there and stay away.

 

How about just putting a dead cat in the car for the winter [maybe on the dash]! The mice would see the cat and stay away!
Just trying to help.....

 

Just spent some time repairing the wire harness and vac lines on my 95 from mouse damage while it sat a friends house. Wish I had done some preventative measures.

 

If you're going to use a cat to get rid of the mice, you'll need one of these:

 

Those poor mice........



PS. These are probably the only chances I'll ever have to use these two pics.

 

The only way to keep mice out of the inside of the car is to block their access. Stock, there are a number of openings into the cowl area and once a mouse is in there, it can travel into the HVAC ducting.

In the first six months I owned my car, I had a mouse nest built in the blower wheel twice. This with two cats, three traps and decon in the garage.

I finally took the cowl off and carefully screened all access points. No more mice in the car. I still ocasionally trap one or two in the garage.

 

I'm not sure I really needed another reason to drive my car year-round, but this thread certainly qualifies.

 

I never had a problem with mice getting in the car. They did, however, eat some wiring and the battery cover under the hood. Can't really block access to that, so I resort to mothballs, Bounce and Irish Spring in the engine compartment.
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