Car Under Attack

scottyf · Post by **scottyf** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:51 am

How safe is your garage?

Took the car out this morning. Tried to scoosh the windscreen, nothing, no problem - top up screen wash. Still nothing. Remove one of the front access panels to have a route around and joy of joys Mice have eaten through the pipes!!! WTF!

But it started me thinking, not so bad they ate through a non essential item like the screenwash pipes...but what if they chewed through some thing a little more important

Ive had a route around as best I could, cant see anything else that looks as if its been chewed. anything else I should check?

The annoying thing is we have rentokill on contract and the wee buggers took a liking to the car and not the bait. Looks like Ill be spending the weekend filling up cracks, holes and doing my best to make the place an unwelcome place for the blighters.

tut · Post by **tut** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:59 am

Thats what happens when you remove your CAT...................

tut

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:02 pm

Good luck with stopping them getting in, they can get through a fingernail sized hole to eat your tasty car...

Lots more poison, then then when you turn on the heater you'll get hit by a dead mouse...

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:23 pm

Ali had to rewire a Mitusbushi this week after the owners daughters hamster escaped in the car ...... well that was his story!

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:25 pm

get som good oldfashioned mousetraps mate. Put chocolate as bait and you'll have 'em. Either that, or speak to Noops.

If it was me, I'd be double checking if all of the 'important' hoses and cabling are ok/are braided.

tuscan_thunder · Post by **tuscan_thunder** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:34 pm

chocolate, peanut butter and the ever present cheese (I find gruyere is best) are good as bait.

They can squeeze through a hole the diameter of a biro pen so stopping them is nigh on impossible.

They love brake fluid, as do rats, and it doesn't poison them.

Putty bait isn't bad, a selection of good traps also helps - I usually put them beside the wheels of the car.

Alternatively, get down to the pet rescue centre.....

alicrozier · Post by **alicrozier** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:05 pm

Andy G wrote:Ali had to rewire a Mitusbushi this week after the owners daughters hamster escaped in the car ...... well that was his story!

Pet Shop Boy...

I remember my dad had a new loom on his company scooby after mice scoffed it.
Plentiful packets of poison taped around the engine bay and leave a bucket of water out (otherwise they get thirsty and chomp your coolant hoses to get at the water...)

skellyjohn · Post by **skellyjohn** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:48 pm

There was a Cat C right off on Ebay last year that was perfect but for the fact that mice had ate their way through the wiring. So get rid of the little barsteward quick!

tenkfeet · Post by **tenkfeet** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:17 pm

tut wrote:Thats what happens when you remove your CAT...................

tut

gorrie · Post by **gorrie** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:40 pm

Chips... I had the little buggers when I lived in a cottage. Always this time of year they would come in from the fields. I found that they ignored the traps with cheese, but loved the ones with a cold chippy chip (some brown sauce on it too).

steve_weegie · Post by **steve_weegie** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:46 pm

gorrie wrote:Chips... I had the little buggers when I lived in a cottage. Always this time of year they would come in from the fields. I found that they ignored the traps with cheese, but loved the ones with a cold chippy chip (some brown sauce on it too).

Now that's a quality mouse! I wonder if weegie mice have developed a taste for vinegar instead

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:47 pm

I have found the little plastic boxes with the powder work well you put them next to the wall, they run through it get covered in poison and then they wizz off, clean themselves and die. It means they can't tell all the other mice where they got poisoned.

scottyf · Post by **scottyf** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:01 pm

Chaps, We have Rentokill on contract cause of the no. of the wee blighters we get! They ignore the traps smeared with chocolate spread and even ignored the really potent stuff Rentokill put down. Seem to be having success with the paste and grain Rentokill put down at the moment though.

Cant even feed the birds or squirrels any more cause the food attracts them.

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:00 pm

Hook the car up to the mains?

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:18 pm

We used to live out in the sticks and my mum didn't like the old fasionned mouse traps so we had a humane trap and released them miles away. Until we got sick of that and used to take them out for a walk with the dog.

Now a 2oz mouse will ourrun a medium dog as it will "have it in the corners" as the dog will understeer into the hedges, however in a straight drag race the dog has the longer legs and will quickly outpace the mouse.

Sadly for the mice we then got 2 terriers which are quick on the straights as well as reasonably manouverable (Oversteery but still quick) and the mouse stood a much reduced chance of escape.

It was quick crunch-gulp if caught, better then being stuck in a trap all night with your leg hanging off... they even got to finish the chocolate hob nob bait before their sentence was carried out.

This is now called hunting with dogs and as such illegal