Technical How to keep mice out of your car

anyone have success keeping mice out of your collector car?
Thanks
Ken

 

Dryer sheets,or a cat! HRP

 

Mice cannot run as fast as I can drive.

 

boxes of D-con seems to work well if they get in. Keep it on jack stands and electrify the jack stands.

 

I’ve had good success with Fresh Cab rodent repellent. There are 4 or 5 little pouches per box that smell like mint. Mice are repelled by the smell.

 

Damn, I love these threads....
Some can be funny.....

 

I have hawks and owls on my property that love rodent dinners. Not a fan at all of poisons...Irish Spring works well also.

 

easy. live where there are no mice

 

So far dryer sheets seem to be working


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"Correlation is not causation"

Vermin use the dryer sheets as bedding, so it doesn't do squat. How that got started is a mystery. Not any good for your dryer or clothes either.

"Consumer" grade D-Con had been defanged, due to EPA regulations.

 

Moth Balls don't work?

Jimbo

 

The easy way is to drag your old house cat off of the back of the couch and throw him in the garage. Make sure you don't feed him/her prior to the excursion to the garage. After a couple of days, you will have a rodent free garage and one pissed off cat.

 

Several 5 gallon Buckets with 4" of water ,spinning plastic bottle with dab of peanut butter -n- a ramp up for the little rodents... i have both controlled environment and cold storadge. And plenty of feral OUTDOOR cats.

 

Downy dryer sheets work for me

 

I rigged up the 5 gallon bucket trap. It works rather well. They climb the 'ladder, tightrope to the can/bottle for peanut butter, it spins and the rodent falls in the water and drowns.

 

Then you throw them in a fire pit and make smores .....
Ummmm...

 

Bottom line.....
Get a cat!!!!!

 

Dryer sheets didn't work in my camper. Interesting that they work for so many of you.

 

Fired up the Chevy yesterday. Observer said a mouse blew out of the sidepipe and ran off! This means war.

 

stop eating anything in your car.........

 

Tried both the Irish spring soap and dryer sheets when I lived in Mi. They made a nest out of the sheets and ate the soap. Moving to Az. seems to be working.

 

Old farmers tricks. Leave the hood, if it has one, open a couple inches. Mice hide from the light so let light under the hood. A couple rubber snakes, one under the car and one over the top and down the windshield. A plastic owl sitting in the corner. That's where plastic owls came from, farmers trying to keep rodents away.

 

Napalm!!! I love the smell of napalm in the morning!!

 

I can make that....

 

I drive my cars in the winter on nice days so don't want to be dealing with the smell of moth balls and such. Over the years I've never had a rodent issue. I place several containers of Decon poison along with old fashioned mouse traps baited with peanut butter around my shop. Its amazing how many mice I find in the traps. Not sure I'd go with the dryer sheets. Too many reports of mice using them for nesting material.

 

One of our local guys had a severe mouse problem. Drove him crazy. He purchased four large 24"x24"cookie sheets. He jacked up each wheel and put one sheet under each tire. Then he filled the cookie pans with used oil. Somehow, he still had mice in the car. To this day he can't figure out how they still got in the car. Don't forget coarse steel wool in the exhaust pipes.

 

The wheel of death pop bottle on a wire on a 5 gallon bucket with some dollar tree peanut butter on it will for sure cut down on the mouse population. I say Dollar tree peanut butter because you just use it for the traps and don't worry about the possibility of contaminating what you eat.
Mint oil will repel them until it wears off. Wife uses that in the cabinets.
The big owl was out in the evergreen last night for the first time in a long time, maybe he will cut down on the outside population a bit.

 

^^^^^^Yep. The dryer sheets gotta be Downy brand to be effective. They will use those cheap-ass Dollar Store ones for bedding...

 

Couple of my cars gotta sit outside. I don't mind a wire now and then, but I learned those dam pack rats like hoses, too! No poison for me, I'm gonna try hood open about 6 inches facing the rising sun. Looks like hell, but none of those other tricks seem to work here.