Stuff some steel wool inside your side pipes and cover the ends with a plastic baggy secured with a heavy duty rubber band. Some guys will put moth balls in the cockpit and engine compartment. Others have put bars of "Irish Spring" soap in the cockpit (then bathe, come springtime!). Sticky type of mouse traps also work. The secret to using a Victor type mousetrap with peanut butter is to mount a little bit of a cotton ball on the trip mechanism and then swab the cotton with the peanut butter; a mouse can lick off the peanut butter on a plain trip, but when they get greedy and tug on the cotton ball, "bam!" works everytime! Just remember everything you did, when Spring comes...you don't want your BB smelling like mothballs!
I will solve your problem for you ,try this, and let me know how many you get, I had them so bad they would even spit the nuts out of the peanut butter, till I tried the glue traps, there two peices of plastic like a shoe box lid with glue on them, then put your peanut butter inside, when they step inside there ass is done, they will flap all over the place till they poop out then have your square shovel ready, and splat, game over.
BTW - A friend of mine who lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains has had good luck with the Victor electronic mouse traps. A little peanut butter to draw them in and they get zapped.
I wrap a thin solid wire around the the trip lever a few loose winds and embed the peanut butter on the trip lever, even a little underneath. Otherwise they will just lick it clean with no snap. I
I suppose you could put the car up on 4 jack stands and greese the jack stands so the mice/rats couldn't climb up. Or set thejack stands in trays with oil to make a moat. Be creative. Good luck.
dangerous doug what do you have against drunk rednecks! Masnaka, rats and mice can jump feet into the air without help. I have a silverado duramax and they like to live in my airbox. everytime I open the box to clean the airfilter theres little reminder's they were there.
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How much are you willing to go through to keep them out?
Sticky traps work great, but the cost per trap is pricey. Peanut butter on the trigger has a less than 50% success rate unless you can get the trigger to pop at the slightest tremmor. The box/run traps work if you have a lot of mice, but if you have this many, you have a bigger problem.
We set out poison boxes. Most of the mice die inside the barn and are swept up. This is the most effective mouse removal we have used.
Put the traps up and out of reach of animals other than the mice.
Hope you resolve your rodent issue.
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I picked up a few sonic repellers last night, I figured they couldn't hurt.
The night vision scope in on the x-mas wish list due to the raccoons raiding the feed stalls in the stables.
I've used the tray sticky traps with a 75% success rate. The other 25% I find the empty traps all over the garage from where they were originally placed - empty.
Will the mothballs actually keep the from damaging the seats/interior?
I sealed any openings I thought they could get through, but did not realize that a hole as small as a pencil would be a problem. I will go through it again this weekend, just to be sure.
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I tried everything including the drunk red necks...plugged every hole with SOS Pads ....traps...fabric softeners ect.... but it was a continuous pain in the ass .. I hesitated to use the electronic stuff for fear it would affect the pets.. but it hasn't....now....I put one in nearly every electrical outlet in the garage and I haven't had any mice for several years...if they find out about the tests...they are going to be pissed...let us know what happens...:
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Everyone from the USDA down to the consumer reporting groups and PopMech have tested the sonic repellers many times over the last 30 years. Not a one got a positive result. IIRC, mice built a nest behind one operating unit. You can look this up in about three minutes flat and save yourself a lot of money.
Everybody has a solution their Gramps or Uncle Busky or neighbor told them about. Most are sheer folktale... but hey, they keep the elephants and aardvarks away, too.
If you're serious about rodent control, talk to your local ag university or county agent or equivalent. They'll tell you some specific, effective ways to control critters and pests, often a lot cheaper than anything you buy down at the hardware store. In my experience (aided with good, professional advice), there's never one solution. It has to be a combination of sealing up access holes and cracks, putting away ALL attractants, and then using traps etc. to nuke the persistent ones.
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Everyone from the USDA down to the consumer reporting groups and PopMech have tested the sonic repellers many times over the last 30 years. Not a one got a positive result. IIRC, mice built a nest behind one operating unit. You can look this up in about three minutes flat and save yourself a lot of money.
Everybody has a solution their Gramps or Uncle Busky or neighbor told them about. Most are sheer folktale... but hey, they keep the elephants and aardvarks away, too.
If you're serious about rodent control, talk to your local ag university or county agent or equivalent. They'll tell you some specific, effective ways to control critters and pests, often a lot cheaper than anything you buy down at the hardware store. In my experience (aided with good, professional advice), there's never one solution. It has to be a combination of sealing up access holes and cracks, putting away ALL attractants, and then using traps etc. to nuke the persistent ones.
I think we're going to need to nickname you Cliff Claven. You know way too much about rodents.
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The only thing I know about rats is that the distributor is on the wrong end.
... Only in that I have a persistent population of Norways in my back yard (we abut onto some undeveloped park/flood zone land) and they've given me endless sport over the years.
One was stupid enough to come up from under the house and into the living room, where a piece of wall trim had been removed during some remodeling.
It was a short-lived problem. We have Great Danes.
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The only thing I know about rats is that the distributor is on the wrong end.
... Only in that I have a persistent population of Norways in my back yard (we abut onto some undeveloped park/flood zone land) and they've given me endless sport over the years.
One was stupid enough to come up from under the house and into the living room, where a piece of wall trim had been removed during some remodeling.
It was a short-lived problem. We have Great Danes.
Doug, I don't know about Cliff Claven, but Gunner immediately reminded me of this movie character:
I'm rethinking the "drunk rednecks with a pellet gun" suggestion. My concern is the possibility of a secondary infestation. Sure, you get rid of all the rodents, but then you have a bunch of drunk rednecks hanging out in your garage. The only recourse is to cut off the food---er, ah---beer supply. Eventually, the herd will begin to thin out as they move to where the beer is readily available, but in the meantime, the damage they can do could be costly---especially if they don't run out of pellets before they run out of beer.
Hey, I don't resemble Carl at all... I've used every frackin' thing except dynamite. Those damned Norways are so tough and resistant that I've put a .22 pellet through them and they just scamper faster. Poison is the usual problem with dogs big and strong enough to flip over crates, etc. too.
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Moth balls do the trick!
I put a box in the cab and trunk, do not take out of the box as it will stink forever. Just open the top and leave on the plastic wrapper.
Also, place a few moth balls at the base of the garage door. Helps....
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You know way too much about rodents. 
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