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Old 06-27-2009, 10:42 PM
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Angry MICE/RATS chewing your car wires..

Have you had this problem before? What is the best way to combat this problem..They chewed thur our new Dodge 2500 control panel and cost a lot of $$ to fix..not a warranty coverage..
Some say moth ball's ??

Need help on this.

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Old 06-27-2009, 11:07 PM
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Get a cat.
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Old 06-28-2009, 10:01 AM
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Have you had this problem before?
What is the best way to combat this problem ...
I've known people that had this problem and resorted to keeping
a light bulb lit in the engine compartment as well as keeping the hood up overnight.

They also backed in, so the engine compartment wasn't sheltered against a wall, bush, etc.

If the above wasn't possible, I'd put a trap under there.

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They say the early bird gets the worm, but it's the second rat that gets the cheese. -- Stephen Wright
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Old 06-28-2009, 12:34 PM
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Wiring has been chewed in three of my cars. Unfortunately poison is the only solution I have found. I did make a circle of diatamaceous earth around one car in the garage with poison outside and inside the circle and did not have trouble. This fall will do again. Cats are great but not combined with poison. Good luck. It is a constant problem. Oh, have also sprayed with a clorox solution around the car and it seemed to help. Son placed bobcat urine around the outside of the garage........come to think about it I don't know why. Warm engines in a garage on a cold night invite mice......but, come to think about that, warm engines outside also do the same? Maybe I should just scratch my head and delete this and admit I don't have a good insight into this big problem!
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Old 06-29-2009, 02:13 PM
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Poison the rat ba$tards
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Old 06-29-2009, 02:40 PM
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Default Bounce fabric softner sheets

No store brand cheapo, gotta be the real Bounce. Stuff sheets around in the engine compartment and they'll leave it alone.
The cheap ones they tear up for nests, Bounce smells as bad to rodents as I think it does.
.They ate the injector wiring off my F150 twice and Chevy Astro. No damage since Bounce.
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Old 06-29-2009, 04:40 PM
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Bounce? Interesting.

What about putting one of those professional boxes, you know- the ones with holes just big enough for mice/rats?- atop the block with a poison block in it?
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Old 06-29-2009, 06:09 PM
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Joe... is their a chance for fire when the engine is hot? I have one mid-engine car that you can't get to without great effort. One time a pack rat got into the disc brakes of my MDX. I could smell it everytime I drove the car. Talk about crotch pot cooking. They finally found it when they rotated tires and checked the brakes. I was cooking him over and over!
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Old 07-01-2009, 09:19 AM
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A good friend of mine swears by a light under the vehicle or in the engine compartment. It works very well, he says. The critters like working in the dark and are spooked by light..makes em too gnervous to gnaw.
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Old 07-01-2009, 09:30 AM
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A lot of good tips in these videos: How to Get Rid of Mice in a Car: Mice Pest Control | eHow.com


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