My car has been sitting under a cover in the driveway all summer, and I took the cover off and ******* mice ate a section of my driver seat and **** everywhere. I have a cat who kills mice and leaves them as presents on our doorstep all the time, but these ******* got to my car now, hopefully they got tortured by my fat cat in a game only he understands. It's getting put away for winter in the garage soon, but now I left it uncovered to hopefully stop the brazen bastards from feasting on my *** juice soaked seat anymore. I thought 12 years of farting deep into the velour with just soccer shorts on in summer heat would leave enough of a THIS IS NOT FOOD smell, but now I need an alternative solution. Mothballs? Poison? What works to keep mice out of cars?

Side note: I did take everyone's advice earlier and just replaced the lugs on the battery cables and that was easy and worked great. Now has an SES light, but ran fine, and one of the dryrotted tires doesn't hold air. The eternal "I swear this year it'll happen" build of the forged 355 shortblock, heads, and cam in my garage will hopefully get put in this winter. Children are expensive.

 

Dryer sheets work very well for us. Used to have them get in our rv every time we stored it for the winter. Havent had any since we were told to put them around in it.

 

Fill 5 gallon buckets with antifreeze about 4 inches. Put a rod through a can that's covered in peanut butter at the top. Make two bridges up to the top of the bucket so they can get to the can with peanut butter on it and when they go for the peanut butter they spin off and fall into the antifreeze.

 

I use one of the plug-in ultrasonic rodent deterrents in my barn where I store my cars and have had good luck with it so far. Run it on an extension cord under (or into) your car if it's stored outside.

Something like this:

https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/the-vic...RoCrpEQAvD_BwE

 

This one would catch my kids unfortunately.

 

Will give dryer sheets a shot, should also help with the poop smell now too.

 

Good old rat traps work around here.....

 

I used mothballs to keep them out of my engine bay. Keeps the squirrels out too.

 

There is also bait you can get that dehydrates them and they literally dry up. Have a few of those around my garage in the winter when the car is put up.
PS- **** squirrels too.

 

if you have pets that can get in areas where you use some form of critter poison....they will eat that to or eat the dead critter that ate the poison....and they to will...

Ugly way for a pet to go down

within a closed car though where no pets can get in it would be OK...but "bait poison" attracts the little *******

I found the battery operated mouse/rat traps work well in my stored trailer

 

Oh noes! I've been doing it wrong all along!11

 

That is sadistically genius. Now even the mice can play American Ninja Warrior.

 

Dryer sheets rock. I have a 1984 pop camper that a fng raccoon could squeeze himself into and never any mice. Put em in my 68 Burb that sits outside most of the year. No mice. Put em in my garaged Transam that moves once or twice per year. No mice. Parked my pickup truck in front of my camper for two months before I changed the transmission last year, did NOT use dryer sheets - fng mice everywhere. They had a field day with a role of paper towels I left i there. Chewed half a roll up and distributed throughout my ENTIRE HVAC system. Turned it on and paper fragments and mouse turds started flying everywhere. Took forever to get it cleaned out. And some of it is still in there.

Use dryer sheets. Plus they make everything smell nice.

 

Not sure if this is awesome or terrible. I'll stick with redneck funny!

 

1. Store car in garage, and;

2. https://www.carid.com/car-capsule/in...iABEgI50PD_BwE

KW

 

Lol, it works like a charm. This is the scoreboard from last year......

98CayenneT/A - 16
Mice - 0

I got 16 of those ****** in my bucket last winter. Like a mini Tilt a whirl you can only ride once before it's night night forever.

 

That bucket trick works great but leaves a smell that could gag a maggot.

 

I would put Piranha's in the bucket,too...

 

I caught 44 chipmunks in the bucket last year, a couple of stray mice, and even a couple of squirrels. The word is out across the county and now all of these bastards stay away.