Mouse prevention

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I had a bad mouse problem in my Dart. Didnt touch the car for about 5 months. Got going on it again and I had a bunch of Mice in it and the smell was WACK. So I cleaned everything I could and put baking soda all over everything for a Day then vacuumed that all up. Then I went and rented a OZONE GENERATOR, that is the chittt to get rid of that smell. Put it in the car for about 4 hours with the back seat out then vacuumed it out again.
SMELL IS GONE!!! After that went to Walmart got 6 boxes of MOTH BALLS and poured them into some old socks. I put 1 under the hood, 4 on the floor boards and 1 in the trunk with scented dryer sheets all over the place. I even poked some on my antenna, windshield wipers around the trunk gasket etc..... It has been about 4 months and they have never came back. The car was on Jack stands in my sealed garage and they still got to it!!!
 
Fill the bucket 1/2 way with water, put peanut butter or something tasty on the can. Mouse gets his way out to the can for the delicacies, can spins, mouse drowns.

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I use mouse traps (4), one @ each tire, two electronic devices, in the car, one in the front between the seats and the other on the rear seat. Bounce sheets scattered everywhere, in the trunk, vents, on top of sunvisors (keep these down), in the engine bay. Anything that emits a strong smell (mothballs, peppermint, alcohol...), seems to detur them. My neighbours cats...

But the only surefire way, is Fastback340's, #1 method, but put something in the bottom of the tray (wood) to put the stands on, so they don't puncture the trays.

Poison is pointless, I used green poison bars once, found a pile of green rice on top of my breather.

If it does kill them, they will likely crawl back into their nest to die, that don't smell pretty either.

Good Luck!

Giles
 
I have a buddy that had squirrels living in his garage. The thing that finally drove them away to stay... a radio on 24-7 tuned to the rap music station. other stations wouldn't do it, but rap? No taste, those squirrels.
 
neilskiw said:
I have a buddy that had squirrels living in his garage. The thing that finally drove them away to stay... a radio on 24-7 tuned to the rap music station. other stations wouldn't do it, but rap? No taste, those squirrels.
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I think that method would work on the majority of living, breathing, THINKING critters.... myself included. 8)
 
This is what I am gonna use for mouse prevetion(if I ever get a project finished) I've tried almost everyrthing..... cotton balls and peppermint extract,moth balls,dryer sheets,ultrasonic electronic devices, and the little SOB's still find their way into the vehicles I park for winter:angry7:

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I just have my garage to store car in. So far I have not had a rodent problem. However each year I lay sticky traps around the car and under the seats, around the garage. I also add the fabric softener sheets around the car and no mice yet. Crosses fingers.

The sticky traps also work well on other creatures.... like spiders. Stick that trap in the dark corner of your garage or shop and wait. One spider gets on it...and another sees dinner and gets on it...another sees dinner and gets on it...I have one that has about 10 diff variety of spiders from smaller to larger... its actually creepy !

Oh ! do NOT run over a sticky trap (because you forget to move it) Those things are a ***** to get off your tire ! (I didnt do this... nope nope)

-RPM
 
ocdart said:
...and here I thought this thread was gonna be about how to keep small-block chevys out of your neighborhood!
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Kermit_T_Frog said:
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Those are just down right funny,

Cats and black Snakes are really the things that do work but the male cats end up pissing on everything and the problem with Black snakes is they get all the eggs from the chicken coupes if you have chickens, we had black snakes at our farm and all you would see is broken egg shells all over the place that they crapped out. Never any mice though.


I use moth balls in the project cars and it works but never in a finished car, that smell don't go away to quickly.
 
What if you want to repel mice AND neighborhood feral cats??
 
Cats like to leave all kinds of little claw marks all over the car too. They're hard on paint. Don't want them around at all if you have a frigging vinyl top.
 
doktor_x said:
Has anyone here tried this thing?
http://www.rodentstrobe.com/index.cfm

I dig the overkill technology aspect of it. It needs to be stamped with 'ACME' to complete the effect.
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A bit on the spendy side, I'd prefer something to get rid of them, not just re-locate.

Plus my neighbours would likely call the fire dept., seeing all those light flashes coming out from my garage, lol.

I'm sure it works though.
 
Some of you guys have some real devious methods.
 
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