Help,Mice in car September 09, 2006, 08:29:44 PM I am buying a Turbo from a guy thats been setting in a garage for 8 years.I will be using it for parts.But frist I must pull it.Howevery I saw mice in it.I was told moth ball will run them out.But I want to be sure their gone since I will be setting in it.What will rid the car of mice?Thanks Quote Selected
Help,Mice in car Reply #2 – September 09, 2006, 09:00:49 PM BB gun and have fun OH WAIT! dont do that you might damage the car.Or shot your eye out Quote Selected
Help,Mice in car Reply #3 – September 09, 2006, 11:36:34 PM Bug bombs,moth balls, jar of gas inside over night,etc.... Quote Selected
Help,Mice in car Reply #4 – September 09, 2006, 11:44:19 PM Set a couple of mouse traps in there with a little peanut butter.They love that stuff. Quote Selected
Help,Mice in car Reply #5 – September 10, 2006, 12:05:49 AM Many years ago we had a mouse in the walls of my kitchen at my parent’s house. Between me and my brothers we almost destroyed the kitchen getting it. It was funny and it was around the time when the movie mouse hunt came out. But the next morning I got up early to see and we got-em. 3 men vs. 1 mouse and we won a lot of food lost, money spent on traps and kitchen pulled apart but we got-em. Quote Selected
Mice Reply #6 – September 10, 2006, 12:13:06 AM A victor mouse trap and peanut butter.................works every time. Quote Selected
Help,Mice in car Reply #7 – September 10, 2006, 09:12:24 AM Hopefully if you're planning on using any of the interior upholstery, they didn't eat it out. Mice invaded my Fairlane before I got it. All I can say is it had a perfect headliner and nice re-upholstered seats... before the mice attacked :( Quote Selected
Help,Mice in car Reply #8 – September 10, 2006, 10:43:25 AM Mice suck!They got up in my bird's heater box while it was sitting last winter, filled it with junk which I had to clean out, and now when I turn on the vents it smells like mouse pee Quote Selected
Thanks Reply #9 – September 10, 2006, 04:58:48 PM Thank all of you for the help.But I will try the bug bomb,moth balls and gas.The others I use to my biggest problem.The Wife. The car has no front clip,I am told that it ran when parked.I,ll salvage what ever I can,but storage will be a problem.I keeping it in the back of a house I working on.So I will leave the moth balls in it over the winter. Thanks again. Quote Selected
Help,Mice in car Reply #10 – September 10, 2006, 07:48:38 PM Don't put mothballs IN the car, or it'll reek like them forever! You'd be better off putting mothballs on the ground around/under the car, that's enough to keep them away. Worked the first time I stored my car for the winter. Quote Selected
Help,Mice in car Reply #11 – September 10, 2006, 09:01:08 PM I have your solution... Ceder chips... it's a natural rodent repelant. That's why you shouldn't use ceder in a pet's bedding. They can't stand it cause it messes with there lungs. Just put some ceder bedding in the car and it will repel them. Quote Selected
Help,Mice in car Reply #12 – September 10, 2006, 11:35:26 PM If you use a bomb or gas,wouldn't that leave odors that you'd be lucky if you could get out? Quote Selected
Help,Mice in car Reply #13 – October 29, 2008, 05:09:58 PM Quote from: blu84302;103410I have your solution... Ceder chips... it's a natural rodent repelant. That's why you shouldn't use ceder in a pet's bedding. They can't stand it cause it messes with there lungs. Just put some ceder bedding in the car and it will repel them.Hello!I'd never think it may happen to me :mad: I've replaced fuel filter in the Turbo Coupe and took it for a ride. I noticed some pieces of those sound deadning minced rags on the pass side floor. After a minute of driving I saw something gray on the floor, but thought it was just a light reflection... well... it wasn't... ! After opening the glove box I was really mad to see it's full of those sound deadning! Than I saw a mouse staring at me from the edge of glove box... I was hunting for it with vacuum cleaner with no luck, so I set two traps hoping to see the mouse there tomorrow.But the question is... where did it take all the sound deadning from? Is it somewhere under the dash?Are you sure cedar chips will work? I heard that there are some red bugs in cedar chips which attack rodent lungs, but it will take forever! Or maybe it's all about the smell of cedar... there are some cedar moth balls, do you think they may work?I'm really concerned about rodent attack in my limo... it may mess up a lot of stuff there! Quote Selected
Help,Mice in car Reply #14 – October 29, 2008, 06:11:48 PM I had a squirrel living in my car the first summer after I bought this house. The cats tried and tried to get him but he always disappeared deep into the bowels of the car whenever they got close. Eventually they got him, though. I didn't think he did any damage until I turned the blower fan on and it sounded funny (led, no airflow) and the whole dash started vibrating. I looked down under the glove box and the blower fan was stuffed solid with insulation. I ended up cutting the plastic screen off the front of it and pulling the insulation out that way, since it was much easier than pulling the dash (which I eventually ended up doing anyway, to replace a cracked one). I also found insulation and seeds sitting on my engine when I pulled the upper intake off to do valve cover gaskets.You think squirrels/mice/other rodents in a car are fun, try having 'em in your house. That first year I trapped eleven squirrels in my basp00get. s would scare the bejeesus out of me every time I went down to stoke the furnace. That's in addition to the several that the cats got outside. Never did find out where or how they got in. For two years I'd been squirrel free, but now I occasionally hear another one down there again. I guess after the original bunch were taken care of the cats did a good job of keeping them away from the house, but Igor (the large cat in the pic above) was killed last summer and my good mouser disappeared this summer (I think she got pissed off at the dog and left). No mouse or squirrel would ever show itself in the main house, mind you (I've got three indoor cats), but the cats don't go into the basp00get, so I guess squirrels feel safe there. Until I get out the Victor and peanut butter again...Here's what I pulled out of my heater fan: Quote Selected
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