Mark42
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Every winter its the same thing. Mice always make nests on and around the car motors. We keep our cars in a garage, and that probably makes it even more convenient for the mice. They seem to be attracted to the heat of the motor when the car is parked.
The problem is that the mice often start chewing on the wires and doing damage.
This year I decided to do something besides putting poison and traps in the garage. Remembering how well moth balls keep the mice out of the boats over the winter, I decided to try it with my Firebird. After taking the shop vac and sucking out the 3rd nest on the intake manifold, I found that they chewed through the wire loom (but not the wires themselves, thank goodness). So I took some cloth and moth balls and made two small bags and tied one onto the intake manifold, and another to the fender well.
This has been working very well. No sign of mice at all. No nest materials and no droppings anywhere under the hood. I don't smell the moth balls when driving the car, except occasionally when stuck in stop and go traffic. The garage really smells of moth balls after shutting the car off, and that might be helping to keep the mice out of the garage all together, seeing as they haven't been eating the poison lately.
Should have done this years ago.
The problem is that the mice often start chewing on the wires and doing damage.
This year I decided to do something besides putting poison and traps in the garage. Remembering how well moth balls keep the mice out of the boats over the winter, I decided to try it with my Firebird. After taking the shop vac and sucking out the 3rd nest on the intake manifold, I found that they chewed through the wire loom (but not the wires themselves, thank goodness). So I took some cloth and moth balls and made two small bags and tied one onto the intake manifold, and another to the fender well.
This has been working very well. No sign of mice at all. No nest materials and no droppings anywhere under the hood. I don't smell the moth balls when driving the car, except occasionally when stuck in stop and go traffic. The garage really smells of moth balls after shutting the car off, and that might be helping to keep the mice out of the garage all together, seeing as they haven't been eating the poison lately.
Should have done this years ago.