The damage mice can do to a car...
The damage mice can do to a car...
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buzzer

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3,621 posts

270 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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My mate had his VW sirocco in storage for a few years. When he went to look at it one day, he was gutted, mice had got in the car and chewed EVERYTHING. The leather on the seats, the wiring in parts, the carpets, the seat foam... even the leather on the steering wheel.

Doors and windows were closed, save for a tiny gap at the top of the front windows to let the air circulate, hell knows how they got into the car? He ended up scrapped it.

one of my cars tends to spend a bit of time in the garage and although I don't have a mouse problem at the moment, I would be gutted if that happened to my car... So I have set a few traps on the floor and keep an eye on them to see if there is any sign of mice in the garage. I do go in there regularly but I have to keep changing the bait on the traps...

Anyone suggest a bait I could use that will last more than a week?


LuS1fer

43,545 posts

275 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Bournville chocolate was recommended by a farmer once as being the best lure.

Le TVR

3,097 posts

281 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Always found peanut butter to be the most effective.

Zod

35,295 posts

288 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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On the hillside opposite the Aston Martin factory at Gaydon, is a chromed DB9. It is just a shell. It used to be a car.

The car was shipped to India for the opening of a dealership and got stuck in a crate on the quayside (thanks to Indian bureaucracy) when it was supposed to be returned to base. When it was finally released, the crate was opened, only to reveal that several generations of rats had lived, eaten, reproduced and died in the car. The car was beyond rescue, so they stripped out the shell, steam-cleaned it, blacked the windows and chromed it (odd decision there) and stuck it as an ornament on the hillside.

Garybee

453 posts

196 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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I'd be worried about attracting mice/rats by putting bait out if you don't currently have a problem. Decided to leave my track car garage bait free for that reason.

GetCarter

31,300 posts

309 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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I had mice nesting in the exhaust pipes of an M3. You should have seen them exit when the car was started up!

I constructed a garage that was completely mouse proof. Sorted.

willld

239 posts

290 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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buzzer said:
Anyone suggest a bait I could use that will last more than a week?
Dried pasta, they love it! You need one of the traps with a little cup on it though, rather than a spike for the bait.

jackh707

2,132 posts

186 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Get a cat.

buzzer

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270 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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GetCarter said:
I had mice nesting in the exhaust pipes of an M3. You should have seen them exit when the car was started up!

I constructed a garage that was completely mouse proof. Sorted.
If a mouse can get into a car... how do you make the garage mouse proof?

buzzer

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270 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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jackh707 said:
Get a cat.
We have got one... he is scared of the garage hehehehehehe

12v3pot

5,135 posts

165 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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What - the mice in Bagpuss were lying? :-o

(I did use a trp in my last garage - just in case. Never tripped.)

Greg_D

6,542 posts

276 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Zod said:
On the hillside opposite the Aston Martin factory at Gaydon, is a chromed DB9. It is just a shell. It used to be a car.

The car was shipped to India for the opening of a dealership and got stuck in a crate on the quayside (thanks to Indian bureaucracy) when it was supposed to be returned to base. When it was finally released, the crate was opened, only to reveal that several generations of rats had lived, eaten, reproduced and died in the car. The car was beyond rescue, so they stripped out the shell, steam-cleaned it, blacked the windows and chromed it (odd decision there) and stuck it as an ornament on the hillside.
I thought it was a V8V?

GetCarter

31,300 posts

309 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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buzzer said:
If a mouse can get into a car... how do you make the garage mouse proof?
Easy for mice to get into cars... but I made the garage with zero possible entry points - think container that sits on a container lorry. The door goes flush onto a 2" tall retainer. So assuming the buggers don't get in whilst I'm moving the car, they ain't getting in.

Had three lots of mice infestation in 2 years... new garage, none in 7 years.

They still get into the house mind!

Zod

35,295 posts

288 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Greg_D said:
I thought it was a V8V?
I actually meant to type V8V. I was deciding which it was and determined V8V, but typed DB9. Must be going senile.

Greg_D

6,542 posts

276 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Zod said:
Greg_D said:
I thought it was a V8V?
I actually meant to type V8V. I was deciding which it was and determined V8V, but typed DB9. Must be going senile.
I'll let you off wink [/nerd]

rigga

8,806 posts

231 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Got electric power in the garage ? Get a ultrasonic repeller
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s_ss_i_1_8?...


The Vambo

7,748 posts

171 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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LuS1fer said:
Bournville chocolate was recommended by a farmer once as being the best lure.
yes

My Polish flatmate was insistent that chocolate was the correct bait to catch the mouse that had invaded our 3rd floor tenement. Not believing the silly foreign bint, I bought four traps and loaded them up with bread, cheese, chocolate and donner meat.

Chocolate won, mouse lost.

YankeePorker

4,830 posts

271 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Damn things will try to eat anything. Years back my boring company diesel was stuttering badly. The mechanic who fixed it showed me the neoprene hand pump bulb on the diesel feed line - it had teeth marks in it and had been letting air into the system. He told me that it happened quite often and then got out a cardboard box of various things that had been replaced on cars because of rodent damage, mostly gnawed wiring.

So bait the traps with diesel soaked neoprene or short lengths of wire with gaily coloured insulation.......

buzzer

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3,621 posts

270 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Ok, the traps are now baited with some chocolate... and I am now sporting a throbbing finger and blue nail


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5RedLights

155 posts

157 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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This is why you should never de-Cat a car.....

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