Thread: This has nothing to do with shaving

I don't know if this will help anyone out there or not so here it goes. For those who have an auto. that sits through the winter in a garage or shed this might be helpful.

I have 2 pickup trucks. one is my do anything truck. a 2002 Nissan frontier and the other a 207 Toyota. The Toyota is mostly dedicated to pulling my fishing boat. so in the winter it sits in the shed with the boat. Last year I had trouble with the A/C not blowing good and the smell was terrible. I started looking and found that the A/C had a air filter and that the filter had a mouse nest on it. A large one. I removed the nest and vacuumed the area put in a new filter and thought i was ok. Well the mouse was not. He came back. after 2 more filters (at $17 each) i decided to get rid of the mouse. I used moth balls . I broke them up in small pcs and put them on the filter. This worked in getting rid of the mouse and after a couple of weeks i started airing out the truck again. it took a while but the smell of moth balls left. so this last winter i stored the truck with the moth balls and when i brought it out of storage i replace the filter and soaked it with faberese air freshener . I left the doors open for a couple of days and now the smell is all but gone.

I don't know if anyone else has had a similar experience but if you have i would like to know how you handled it. I've thought about mouse poison but then i would have the smell of a dead mouse in the truck. If nothing else those who service there own autos you might want to ck your A/C filters .

So far the motorcycles haven't seen any mice in them over the winter, but my Rv gets one every now and then, they find a way in no matter what you do, I haven't found a good way to repel. What. Do when we air out and get ready s set a couple of traps that way we get them dead and out of the Rv. Their pretty stupid, not like city mice they get caught real quick, usually before we lock it back up. So maybe a mouse trap in the floorboard every now and then and check it a couple days later. Tc

Oh and i forgot to tell ya'll about the motor air filter. the tube from the finder well to the intake was full of acorns.

I do not know if they have it in the US, but here in Canada we have a bar soap called Irish Spring. It is pretty mediocre soap, but mice hater the smell of it. I grate it with a regular kitchen grater and scatter it around the doors of the storage shed. I also put out a steady strap, as I do not check the shed often. Take a 2 1/2 gal or a 5 gal bucket, put an empty can on a wire across the top, so it is a spinning cylinder, then a stripe of peanut butter around the middle of the can. Now fill the bucket 1/2 way with water and put a stick up to it on the sides by the wire. The mice climb up and along the wire and when they get to the can it turns and they fall in and drown. I am going to say my mouse trap catches way less mice when there is soap on the floor around the doors because of the soap. The traps will work pretty steady as long as there is enough heat to keep them from freezing, which is all winter in my area. I hate mice.

To extend your trapping season, you could replace the water with used antifreeze.

Originally Posted by RezDog

I do not know if they have it in the US, but here in Canada we have a bar soap called Irish Spring. It is pretty mediocre soap, but mice hater the smell of it. I grate it with a regular kitchen grater and scatter it around the doors of the storage shed. I also put out a steady strap, as I do not check the shed often. Take a 2 1/2 gal or a 5 gal bucket, put an empty can on a wire across the top, so it is a spinning cylinder, then a stripe of peanut butter around the middle of the can. Now fill the bucket 1/2 way with water and put a stick up to it on the sides by the wire. The mice climb up and along the wire and when they get to the can it turns and they fall in and drown. I am going to say my mouse trap catches way less mice when there is soap on the floor around the doors because of the soap. The traps will work pretty steady as long as there is enough heat to keep them from freezing, which is all winter in my area. I hate mice.

This is some real interesting advice. I have few friends that complain about mice. We have Irish Spring, pretty popular too. Ingenious mouse trap as well.

Anti-static dryer sheets work pretty well to keep mice away. As a bonus, they don't leave a mothball smell.

Originally Posted by Utopian

To extend your trapping season, you could replace the water with used antifreeze.

Anti-freeze works great except if the neighbors cat or pet gets to it they die to. I really don't care about the mice but for one of those kids pets is a different story. My shed is open in the front. We call buildings like pool barns. we kind of country.

Originally Posted by CZMark

Anti-static dryer sheets work pretty well to keep mice away. As a bonus, they don't leave a mothball smell.

When I used to store a car in a friend's barn, she had me put moth balls in the floorboard. About the time the car quit stinking it was time to put it back in storage.

Wish I had known about the dryer sheets.

You guys are lucky you don't live in NYC. You wouldn't be dealing with puny little mice but rats and they would devour every wire and hose and non metal object under the hood plus you would probably find the remains of an unlucky cat who tried to tangle with the rat.

The best mouse catcher are those sticky boards they sell Put some peanut butter on one and leave it under the truck and you'll get him. Rodents can't resist peanut butter.