What do You Guys use to keep mice out during storage, of Your vehicle ? ?

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What do You do to keep the mice from causing damage to Your vehicle, while it is in winter storage ?
 
I use fabric softener sheets inside of the cab and blocks of rat poison screwed to pieces of 2by4 around the outside. That is what I also use in my combines and tractors and has not failed yet.
 
When I had to store my car in a barn for 2 years, over the winter, I took the back seat
up, put out D con poison food, and a little pan of antifreeze to wash it down with.
No prob.
 
Before I retired from farming I used mothballs in my combines. Not perfect, but I would say up to 95 % effective. Don't be stingy, use 2-3 boxes or more. Cut top open,and fold it back. Space boxes evenly around vehicle interior including trunk. Leaving it in the boxes makes it much easier to take out after winter and seems to be just as effective as scattering. Only problem is the smell of moth balls, but I much preferred that to the smell of mouse not to mention their destruction. If sealed up after taken out of car I have had the boxes last several years as they are 100% ingredient.
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Before I retired from farming I used mothballs in my combines. Not perfect, but I would say up to 95 % effective. Don't be stingy, use 2-3 boxes or more. Cut top open,and fold it back. Space boxes evenly around vehicle interior including trunk. Leaving it in the boxes makes it much easier to take out after winter and seems to be just as effective as scattering. Only problem is the smell of moth balls, but I much preferred that to the smell of mouse not to mention their destruction. If sealed up after taken out of car I have had the boxes last several years as they are 100% ingredient.
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Mothballs smell horrible. Then you have to smell them forever.
 
After having two combines overrun and chewed to H---- by mice one winter. I decided moth balls had a sweet clean pleasant smell in comparison. Enjoy your mice Cody.
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After having two combines overrun and chewed to H---- by mice one winter. I decided moth balls had a sweet clean pleasant smell in comparison. Enjoy your mice Cody.
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Yep, the old lesser of evils scenario.:D
 
We just drive them all year..... Run them little bastards over !!!!!! I wouldnt know what to do if I had storage...lol
That cost too much money out here in the big city.... Feww
 
abodyjoe said:
Moth balls around the car and dryer sheets in the car
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The mice around here use the dryer sheets for a nice nesting place. Moth balls and peppermint oil here. One guy out here with a Shelby Mustang puts jack stands in oil drain pans under the car then takes the wheels off. fills the drain pans with used oil. Mice climb in and the oil takes them out.
 
racerhog said:
-- We just drive them all year..... Run them little bastards over !!!!!! I wouldnt know what to do if I had storage...lol --
That cost too much money out here in the big city.... Feww --
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-- Booooo ! -- Hi Bob.
 
racerhog said:
We just drive them all year..... Run them little bastards over !!!!!! I wouldnt know what to do if I had storage...lol
That cost too much money out here in the big city.... Feww
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Exactly! It's hard for the little bastards to set up shop if the car is moving. :thumbsup:
 
Bait is great. The only problem with it is you don't know where the little buggers are going to take their nap. Several of those Devils napping in your car for a while can be pretty nasty too. Use the moth balls AND bait. Keep them out of your car and get them too.
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Bounce sheets everywhere in the car including the trunk. I also put steel wool in the tailpipes to prevent them from moving into the exhaust or even worse into the engine. I also put bounce sheets in the air filter. I'm pretty sure that there is no sure fire way, but this seems to work for me.
 
I have him in the garage and around the house, a couple acres away I have his brother in and around a barn that has 7 cars in it and a few more cars behind the barn.

not a single mouse in the buildings or cars in years. Yet, I know the mice are around because I have actually caught this guy and his brother having a warm dinner with them.

no problems at all with this guy and his brother

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Mouse traps with peanut butter for bait. Put them around the car underneath, in the trunk, inside on front and rear floor boards and a couple under the hood. Check the traps every so often and remove any you got and re-bait.

It's nearly impossible to keep them out but easy enough to kill them with a good trap if they do get in. Once cold weather sets in, they aren't usually out exploring since they have already found their place for the Winter. Whatever you kill at the start of the season is likely all you will see for the rest of the Winter.

Oh yeah, cover the tailpipes with aluminum foil and put a rubber band around it. They hate chewing aluminum foil and won't try to get through it to store seeds inside the exhaust
 
Mix corn meal with plaster of Paris and leave a few pans around. When they eat it the plaster hits their guts and hardens up. Also safe if your dog or cat gets a hold of one of the dead ones(unlike some poisons)
 
I while ago I was in chile
One of the people I was staying with had a van with an intermittent starting issue (it sounded like a bad ground or a loose wire)

I offered to have a look at it
When I popped the hood there was a 20 pound rat sitting on the intake, giving me the stink eye

The battery tray was filled with nuts, and the underwood insulation was scratched to pieces

I shooed it off and the van has been running great ever since
 
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