I have been finding mouse or rat turds under the hood of my Miata. It is parked outside and we have a large open park behind our house. I only drive it once or twice a week. Does anyone have any suggestions to keep them out of my car?
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I have been finding mouse or rat turds under the hood of my Miata. It is parked outside and we have a large open park behind our house. I only drive it once or twice a week. Does anyone have any suggestions to keep them out of my car?
Are you sure it's mouse or rat and not gecko?
I thought I had a mouse because of the little turd trail on the side of the garage, and I finally saw the culprit. It was a salamander.
I think that mouse poop smells more than lizard poop. Give it a big whiff and report back.
I'll take a picture of it next time. No sniffin' it for me.
They are a little bit larger in diameter than a #2 pencil lead, brownish in color and are curved like a banana, around 1/4 to 1/2 inches long.
Get an outdoor cat.
You could always just drive your car more ;-)
Park your car over a bucket of moth balls. Rodents don't like the smell.
Make sure to keep an eye on all the wiring with special attention to the sparkplug wires.
We had a rash of rats in my house, after I destroyed the little bastard rat colony I was greeted with this crap.
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My bro-in-law was an exterminator at the time and he said rats & squirrels love wires. Has something to do with sugar or some sweet chemical in the wires. I've had to replace wiring here & there from little bastard chew marks like this.
Get some of the solid rat poison. It looks kinda like a stick of butter. Cut it into small pieces like pats of butter and lay it around in the engine area. They eat the 'butter' and are toast.
See what I did there?
I cleaned the turds and put a pan of moth balls under the engine. I'll start there and report back.
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Damage from last night with mothballs under the engine bay area;
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We've already had to replace several wiring harnesses at work on brand new cars because of rat damage. It's horrible. We keep bitching to management, but they haven't done anything about it yet. Yay for building a dealership in the middle of a fucking field!
Day 4 with the mothballs scattered around under the hood and in a pan under the engine, no signs of rodents returning. I will be buying sone 100% pepermint oil to spray atound the engine soon just to be sure.
Park more in the open if possible. They like to travel along fences and walls. Open spaces give them the heebee-geebees.
I had problems last fall-winter when parked in the driveway near the house. Once I moved the car to the street, nesting problems ended.
cheers and good luck.
Buy a hawk, let him go into your trees. Zero rodents in no time.
Then he will be hungry and come take your children. Of course, that might not be objectionable, but consider yourself warned.Quote:
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Just checked tonite and the poops are back, no new wires chewed though. Looks like I'll have to pick up the peppermint oil tomorrow. Crap
Buy some fox urine at Bass Pro Shops and spray it around your car. Or mix some canned corn with car coolant for their last supper.
Plaster-of-Paris (dry) mixed with raisons or other dried fruit also makes a great last mouse-supper, and they do love it.Quote:
Originally Posted by motorollow
I bought 100% pure peppermint oil at GNC and sprayed all of the wiring under the hood along with random places under the car. I will report back after it gets cold again. My car smells good for sure.
I found a place in Plano called the Pest Stop at 15th and Custer. I bought some Red Fox urine. I guess this weekends weather will be a good test.
So far so good with the Fox pee. I have seen no signs of the rodents returning. It does suck to have to remove the containers every morning before I leave for work though.
Well you learn stuff from family. My sister may have had the answer to what is behind this love affair for your car's wiring.
In a nutshell, the wiring may just be a yummy, soy based treat.
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Yeah that's what they told us at work. I get to do a wiring harness on an IS250 in the morning. wheeee!
So far so good with putting fox pee under the hood. No signs of return visits so far.
How does it smell when you turn on the heat?
No odor at all. I have put cotton balls in small pill bottles with holes in them and soaked the cotton balls with the red fox urine. I put the pill bottles in a ziplock bag when I leave in the morning and put them back under the hood in the evening. On a side note, my cat got a whiff of my hand before I could wash them. I didn't see my cat for 2 days and he's an indoor cat.Quote:
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Just don't Google where fox pee comes from. Sometimes you are better off not knowing.
I know, my wife is having a hard time with it.Quote:
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Arghhhhhh! Effing mice built a nest on the patio, under the pool floaty-chairs. I pulled the chairs from the pool last month, and put them on the patio, as it got too cold to "float in the pool" with beer in hand. The little fookers destroyed the floaty-chairs by chewing them up for nest-parts.
Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
You need more snakes and owls in your yard.
I have them in my yard. I need them on my patio. ;-)Quote:
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Your clearly not drinking enough. Buy new floaty chairs, and a flask of Hot Damn.Quote:
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Wait mice can still swim can't they...