Keeping mice out
Burning Brakes
Joined: Aug 2007
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From: Oakton Virginia
Double teamed. Got three last winter. They come in through the garage and make their way to the basement. I go to the pet store once in a while and buy a couple and heave them into the basement just for practice.
...... just kidding, my wife won't let me.
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...... just kidding, my wife won't let me.Before:
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Drifting
Joined: Aug 2006
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From: Oregon
Anti Freeze and deCon... The DeCon will usually take care of them, as it makes them thirsty, and the sweet tasting anti-freeze (green stuff) will finish the job in case they didn't get enough DeCon. Just use a baking sheet pan and pour on the anti freeze, push it under the car and let the fun begin. (ok all you PETA people, flame on! ).... Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.. When I had my 80, I would see the anti freeze footprints leaving the tray across the garage floor, back when I was living at my ranch. We had a bad rodent problem there because of all the feed stored in the shop.
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.. When I had my 80, I would see the anti freeze footprints leaving the tray across the garage floor, back when I was living at my ranch. We had a bad rodent problem there because of all the feed stored in the shop.
Drifting
Joined: Nov 2007
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From: Newport, RI
Yeah man, these little critters can really make a mess.
I went out a few days ago and bought poison trays (with pellets) and poison cakes. I spread them everywhere in my garage, always underneath things so that kids and pets can't get them.......
Mice can also spread a variety of nasty viruses.
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I went out a few days ago and bought poison trays (with pellets) and poison cakes. I spread them everywhere in my garage, always underneath things so that kids and pets can't get them.......
Mice can also spread a variety of nasty viruses.
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Cruising
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 14
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From: Torrington Ct
Thanks for the follow up. The best thing if found so far is instant mash potatoes. Not sure were I red it but tried it in my. Just put some in a try I don't put any water near by so they go outside to drink the mashed potatoes expand and that is the end of them. I know it work, I found a couple outside just rolling around.
Racer
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 348
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From: Las vegas Nevada
Get a cat!
Race Director
Joined: Jan 2006
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From: Not on either liberal coast.
Maybe the technology has improved since the original '09 start of this thread... 
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Pro
Joined: Jan 2005
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From: Endicott New York
Oldtimer
Start setting traps & poison & antifreeze now! Spread dryer sheets on the floor, under the hood and inside the cockpit when you finally store it for the winter. Don't forget to stuff some steel wool or something in your exhaust tips. I used to use a couple pairs of old socks stuffed with moth ***** in each exhaust pipe, now I use steel wool.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Nov 2010
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From: CT
I put Bounce sheets all over the engine bay, all over the interior, and, interior rear under the glass, in the dash ventilation louvers and in each exhaust tailpipe. I also use glue traps by each wheel. I've never had a rodent problem ever since I've owned my 2000, which is since new, and has been stored in storage garages and my own garage. 
Ed
Ed
(do occasionally get a dead mouse in the trap though)
Instructor
Joined: Nov 2008
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My son found a semi wild cat under our shed several years ago. We started feeding it. It has killed dozens of mice. I guess living on its own made it a good hunter. Kills them and stacks them up on the sidewalk.
Doesn't get many anymore, I guess she has done most in. Oh, rabbits need to stay away also.
Doesn't get many anymore, I guess she has done most in. Oh, rabbits need to stay away also.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Aug 2003
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From: = From Toronto = 9/11/01 FDNY 343 Never Forget
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10-'11-'13-'14
I soak cotton ***** in Oil of Wintergreen ( get it from a pharmacy ) and put them in buttertart trays and place them in various spots in the car, engine area, on top of each tire, exhaust tips etc. great thing about this stuff is it smells like mint and disappears quickly when you start driving the car again.
I used this for the last 3 years when I stored my car in a barn on a farm, I now keep the car at home in the garage.
I used this for the last 3 years when I stored my car in a barn on a farm, I now keep the car at home in the garage.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 756
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From: Oakton Virginia
. But come on, these are just nasty rodents 
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