Storage

Good point. They say you should just 'dust' it on potatoe plants.

 

My granddad had a bucket mouse trap, and I built one as well.
Very effective at getting lots of mice. I too used peanut butter as an attractant.
We have an old cabin in the woods that they found their way in, and I put the bucket in there and got a dozen or more. But it solved that part of the problem.

 

Moth balls work but the smell is almost impossible to get out of a car. A good deterent that works is to use those softener pads that you throw into the clothes dryer. Put them under your car, in the trunk, under the hood etc. Don't use too many inside the car (you don't want to have that smell in there for weeks come Spring) and change them periodically. Mice won't go near it...just like moth balls but smells better and doesn't affix the smell to the car forever. It works.

 

Expensive car jackets OR cheap tarp wrapped from bottom up

Tried that, putting mothballs on the ground around the car and also placing mothballs on the floor, seats, in engine bay and trunk. Found the car in the summer with a gagging stench of a deceased mouse inside, not to mention the stinky puddles of mouse pee on mothballs in the trunk and at the bottom of the spare tire well and rear wheel wells. Had done more damage and cost more in cleaning expenses than a car jacket would have. Not to mention the disassembly work it took to find where it died, as the stench had permeated the vehicle.

It took more than a year to get the dead mouse smell out of the car. Once gone I still couldn't enjoy the car anymore, a lingering fragrance might have been in my imagination as nothing bothered the new owner. Now I only store cars in mouse proof car jackets, a financial sacrifice that saves a lot in future costs and heartache.

Vic

 

OK, Vic...that's maybe a new one on me. What's a car jacket?? I use clothes dryer softener sheets now because I have never found a car cover that would keep mice, etc out.

 

if possible, i'd like to see a picture of the car jacket in use and of the tarp wrap in use. do you use that car jacket outside? the website said indoors only but i'm sure that's just so you can't get our money back if a wild animal tears it up

 

I never thought about those things getting into my car over the winter. Well this winter hopfully she'll be at the body guys garage (mmm heated ) getting her spa treatment...but next winter OMG I may have to put in a garage door into the rec room...wonder if hubby's up for that? Or maybe one of those car jackets...might need a Parka around here Great question I'll watching to see what everyone comes up with. Nice cars by the way!

 

I never got an answer to the above question. Is a car "jacket" something that "closes" and keeps rodents out? I don't know of anything that will do that?

 

I did a bit of online looking, I don't know about rodents, IMO if they want in they will get in. Myself, I'm not sold on this jacket even before I read anything about it. I could see this working great if your storing it inside but then whats the point(?). In a very dry climate I could see little to no damage but in my case (The wet coast) I'd have to dry the car out and have it wraped up before the end of August. I could see where I live unwraping it come spring time if it was stored outside and finding the worlds largest blob of mold.

http://www.carbag.com/support/preparing_for_storage.html

http://www.carbag.com/support/jacket_technology.html

To me it seems the chances of "" are far to great, to use it in my climate any way even if in a dry indoor storage as they say is needed. I'll stick with sheets, at least the car breaths.

 

How big is your car?

To bad this wouldn't work

https://www.spacebag.com/10/Default.aspx

 

, could you imagine.......Your car about the size of a bail of hay after!

 

Actually....there was a place nearby here that used to shrink wrap cars and store them outside! I sure didn't like that idea and I noticed that after the first year they aren't doing it anymore....LOL

 

Teej problem??? The size of a hay bail...might help him too

 

I got a few of these. Mice NO PROBLEM

 

Cat's are a good deterrent but even then the mice build nests in cars that are stored. They get in in spite of the cats. The cat may get them eventually but the damage has often been done. I don't think there is any fool proof way to keep mice out of a car that's stored. Even ones that aren't stored. Especially in cold climates.