I cant seem to keep the mice out of my car. I set traps every night in the garage and allways kill a few per week but they keep coming. Any ideas?

 

Garage cat? lol

 

 

I've heard of rice in peoples cars.......but mice?! is this the new trend?

 

I knew this type of post was coming...

 

Lay a few sheets of 'Bounce' fabric softener. They say it's supposed to repel mice, mosquito, ants... and they smell AMAZING!

 

the solution is to get poison food pellets. They work like a charm. Lay them all over the garage and in the morning you'll find a bunch of dead mice. Too bad they breed like rabbits though, their future generation will come after you.

 

Move to So Cal? But seriously, get a cat or 2.

 

a thing about poison is sometimes they dont instantly die and the last thing yoyu want is a dead mouse in your car and you have no clue where its at. ewww

 

Not a big fan of that method...

When the mice die, the will do it behind furniture and stuff (or in your case, inside your car).

After a couple of days, the place tends to smell like sh*t! (or dead animal for that matter).

Happened on the DC restaurant I used to work. It took us a few days to shovel all the corpses out

 

+1

The old spring head trap works great. problem is they found your car to be a good home, so the news has spread to the mice family. haha..you need to get rid of all of them!

Do you have food or something in your car? You better hope the mice don't start chewing up your wiring.


I had a groundhog eat some wiring on my Z. Go figure.

 

The cat idea is out, My dogs would kill it. I havent noticed any mice sh$$ inside my car "yet" and the traps do work...but man its never ending.

I agree about posion and risking dead mice inside the car but I might give it a try anyway.

 

I have sonic pest repellers in my basement , might be worth looking into. I have had luck with them, no corpse no stink no problem. My dogs don't mind them so I think they are safe.

 

I heard about the sonic repellent thing as well, looks pretty good.

On a side note: mice WILL CHEW YOUR WIRES! A friend of mine had his entire dash/radio lights out for like a MONTH and he had no clue how it happened. Checked all the fuses and the only way he found out what happened was because of this odious stench coming from the back of his dashboard. Took everything apart: found a dead mouse and chewed up exposed wires.

And yeah, the poison takes a few hours to kick in so they could be anywhere and you might have to play mouse hunt the next morning. But at least that insures a 100% kill rate.

 

Guess a little stink is better then a fire

 

Put those sticky traps around your car. make your you double them up just incase its a rat or something comes along.

 

I tried this a few years back with my corvette. It was a complete failure unfortunately. Had mice build a nest between the block and plenum and then found more in the box that routed the vent system. They were very difficult to get rid of.

 

So my car sits all winter because of the snow depth here and there was a little mouse had curled up in my front strut tower and died.. i forgot about this actually, took him out this spring when I did my pre-season check under the hood.. nasty lol

He was all dried up and in a U shape came out in one piece :/

 

peanut butter on mice traps.

 

Why not put down the poison but leave your car in the driveway a night or two so they don't die in your car