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greetings everybody, this probably has been hashed around before but i need to know what is the best way to keep mice out of my cars. what i'm looking for is a deterant. i don't want to kill them just keep them out of my cars. i'd like to kill'em all but don't want the stink that goes with dead mice. thanks

We have "Gimly" who , some say is a part Persian, long haired , ginger cat. Others say that he is a pure bred Iraqi. He and his predecessor , Mog have kept our "28" rat and mouse free for twenty years. Gimly is better than Mog who used to bring his kill into the house for inspection.
I hope you get a better answer than this. I have realised of late that Gimly costs about $1500 a year to run.

I have the same problem, and use rat baits all the time. Now and then I have to put up with a lingering on the nose smell for a while as nature does its job.

my land-rover discovery had rat damage to the wiring harness to the tune of $1600 of lovelessness despite my earnest endeavours with the baits in the shed.

So its a battle that you will have to sort out for yourself.
A cat or two is the most effective, but where I live cats kill the possums and other wildlife so I go the bait way.....

Peter

Do a Google search on Bounce laundry sheets.

I never go the poison bait way! Don't like the smell. Several traps with peanut butter for bait does the job.

A friend of mine asks me to pick him up a few packages once a year from the local restoration shop called FAWCETT MOTORS in whitby ontario Canada , a product called FRESH CAB. Its some kind of product in a breathable package you put inside your interior and the engine & trunk copartment. He has a 23 ford and a 37 ford and the building he is in has mice problems. Well this product keeps them away and thats its intended use.

I googled the name and came up with this link for info
http://www.earth-kind.com/faq/

mike lynch

I use the Bounce laundry sheets inside the car along with moth balls and peanut butter baited traps on the outside. I have not had a problem in the last 12 years.

yes, Bounce (normal scented and mothballs. Works every time. Also, rubber band a bounce sheet over the exhaust tail pipe...keeps the critters from nesting in the muffler.
Paul

[quote=Sky1928]yes, Bounce (normal scented and mothballs. Works every time. Also, rubber band a bounce sheet over the exhaust tail pipe...keeps the critters from nesting in the muffler.
Paul [/quote

When I put my 38 to sleep in the fall I always put a ball of steel wool in the tail pipe and hang a red shop rag over it to remind me that it's in there...Mice are like us ..they don't like to chew on steel wool...Good Luck..ED

hello all, i have tried moth balls and found that they did not work. snakes, yes, mice no. anyway, i'll give the bounce sheets a try. question, why the combination of bounce and moth balls?

The Bounce keeps out the mice and the moth balls the moths who love the wool mohair. While the Bounce sheets are a deterent I find that trapping them and reducing the population is best. I also put newspaper on the seat bottoms and put the Bounce on them. Someone told me that the mice will avoid the newspaper because of its slippery feel. Don't know if that makes sense but since I haven't had a problem I will continue doing so. There are mice in the area as I do catch them in the peanut butter baited traps.

I'm not sure of the effects of Bounce placed directly on fabric and left there for an extended period, but recently a friend gave me the loan of several Chevrolet Engineering pamplets dated in the sixties. He had purchased the items at a garage sale and because they smelled musty he had placed two to three sheets of Bounce at random between the pages of each pamplet. The musty smell was gone when I opened them, but one or two pages each side of the Bounce sheet(s) had become oil soaked in appearance and feel.

Thats good to know. I'll keep using the newspaper but perhaps if the Bounce is not enclosed the oil? evaporates as I have not seen any residue on the paper.

One thing I found worked for me, I brush my cat and then pull the hair off the brush and place it under the seats, guess the mice know not to go where they smell cats..try it

on the rats eating the wiring, I heard that some wire mfg'rs use a peanut byproduct in their wire insulation which attract rodents, ever heard about one car on the street having rodent electrical problems but none of the other cars do..makes sense