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Hi All,
With fall and winter approching soon, I was wondering, does anybody have any remedys, (homespun or otherwise) to keep mice out of your car while it is in storage?
I was at a car show last weekend and a guy with a GTO told me that he uses canisters with cloves in them. He said it works great.
I figured he was b.s.ing me when, sure enough, he pulls out a pill bottle sized container full of cooking cloves, with an open fabric cover held on by a rubber band.
He said in 4 winter's of stoage, they never failed to work. He places 4 or 5 containers through out the car, and it always works.
Anyone Else with some ideas?
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I live and work around people with scientific minds and thinking. I need more proof than that to start using cloves. So, I use cats. Big ones. Years of scientific research and several generations of TV cartoons prove that rodents don't like cats.
Seriously, I know a rodent can chew through most anything, so a physical barrier seems useless. Cloves might work but maybe he's just had good luck and it's not really the cloves.
Moth balls will probably keep rodents AND YOU away.
I have been intrigued by those small electronic devices that repel rodents with sound frequencies that humans can't hear, but that might not be easy to rig up or even practical.
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I've also heard that mothballs, work. Also heard something about clothes dryer sheets, eg... snuggles, white rain, etc....
I guess in all these remedies, it is the smell, that repels them.
I have some barns and outbuildings on my property and I would rather use them instead of paying for a strorage garage. However, I would be happy to pay a storage fee instead of having a mouse eat through the wiring of my Galaxie.
It will be the first year i've had to store anything through a winter,and I would like to avoid all rodent, troubles.
Last edited by blue oval me (August 17, 2013 8:48 am)
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I use drier sheets. works fantastic!!! I have used them several winters and never had any issues.
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Thanks Daze, that seems to be the most popular remedy i've come across so far.
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So far, I have had no problems with rodents, but I would hate for my 64' Gal to smell like mothballs, especially the sweatty ones. I have ,however, found sunflower seeds in the hood insulation of my F-150. The feeder is on the opposite side of the house. Go figure. Just in case anyone wondered, I'm still around. LOL Don
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ragan64 wrote:
Just in case anyone wondered, I'm still around. LOL Don
I really was starting to wonder. glad to here from you!!!
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