How do you store your car?

[trularin]

I am was out cleaning my big barn where I store the car. I was doing well until I found a box of electronics and noticed mice had moved in and ruined the contents.

Do any of you store your cars where mice might invade?

I must have set 20 traps all over the place.

Have you ever found rodents had visited your car? I have this vision of mice nesting in the side pipes or in the cockpit.

I am a little concerned and am thinking of moving the car to the garage.

I was just wondering.

[Lowell W]

I stored my Cobra in my new garage this past winter. It's heated and I never leave the doors open when the heat is on. To the best of my knowledge, there's not a mouse-sized access hole anywhere but, just in case, I put packages of poison mouse bait all along the edges of the building (inside) and in the cars, machinery, etc. A dead mouse will smell for a couple of days and then it's all dried up. Beats the heck out of having your seats chewed up or your pipes full of acorn shells. I bought an old motorcycle (Royal Enfield) for parts several years ago and when I removed the pipes, they were full of mouse bait, so they'll go anywhere they can fit. When I'm not working under the car, I put a bait pack on the top of each tire and a few on the floor under the car. Sort of like leaving a bottle of whiskey on the kitchen table for the burglars when you go on vacation (an old South African custom, according to an Afrikaner friend of mine). I think mice are less of a problem when the weather warms up and there's more activity in your garage, but I still make sure there's plenty of bait for 'em. Some folks advocate using mothballs to repel mice. It may work to a certain extent, but in my old Jeep snowplow, I found a mouse nest in the glove box on top of the mothballs. Also, the Jeep always smelled like mothballs. Now it smells like a dead mouse every now and then. To paraphrase a famous line: "I love the smell of dead mice in the morning. It smells like...victory!"

[Todd Hedges]

For $350 try the car capsule.
It keeps the car clean, dry and free of rust.
I realy works well.
No, I don't sell these.

[uncltodd]

Todd- other Todd here.

Ignorance is simply lack of data, I never heard of "car capsule."

In my climate mice are definitely a problem. My BDR will be garaged, along with my tomcat's bed, but he is 18 years old and has no interest in catching mice anymore. As long as the little fart is alive I don't dare put out traps or bait.

Do you know of a link that stoopid here can go to for info on the car capsule?

Thanks!

UT

[Lowell W]

The car capsule is nice. A friend bought one to store his car but it's in a big heated building with nothing around it but a bunch of other cars, stored for the winter. In a working garage, I'd be afraid of poking a hole in it. It might be a good idea to erect some kind of a frame like 2x4's and chicken wire around part of it to keep stuff away.

There's also some kind of mouse trap stuff that's like flypaper: the mice walk on it and get stuck. If you put that where kitty can't get to it it should be OK. All the squeaking might be some entertainment for him, too...

[blykins]

Very off topic question....Todd Hedges....I'm trying to look at your car in your gallery. For some reason, none of the pictures will load...what color is your car?

[uncltodd]

Blykins- just peeked over there, pics loaded just fine for me...

Your browser settings, maybe? Sometimes the "Rottweiler" programs I have don't like some sites.

#45 appears to be a very deep, almost blackish green.

Drop-dead gorgeous.

UT

[blykins]

Hmmmm....I'm having trouble with his and his only....I'm sure it's something screwy.

[Cobra4Me]

I have a car capsule for my Cobra, even inside the garage the car tends to get dusty and everytime you clean it up some fine scratch marks will start to show, so I decided to buy a Car Capsule to protect it, I liked it so much that I highly recommend it to anyone that has a Nice Ride, if you go to that website and click on "add your picture" you'll see my Car there. The correct size for a Cobra is "CC16" don't order the "CC16T" which is tall.... here's a pic:

[lineslinger]

I had trouble with mice getting into my place and chewing on various parts. I put out some mouse poison but then found a dead owl a few days later. I'm afraid he might have eaten a poisoned mouse. I then started catching black snakes out at my farm and turning them loose around my shop. No more mice. I do find a shed snake skin once in a while but for me that is an acceptable tradeoff any day. I figure everyone on this site likes snakes. Right?

[trularin]

I live in the greater North and can only get on the road when it is dry. Hey, what can I say; life on the farm.

This capsule looks like the nut.

Do you have to buy one each year?
Can you open and close the bubble at will?
Is it reusable each year?

Or, in a nut shell, how does it work? Other than it looks like a plastic bubble inflated by a vacumm cleaner.