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#1 ·
This is driving me nuts. I get in my car in the morning and I notice in my passenger side floorboard something flashes by. Or it will jump the other way and look at me. This is the second one. It's driving me nuts. Where the hell can they possibly be getting in. I need other ideas. I've checked the basic areas. Where does the antenna wire go into the interior in the body mine is going through the hole where the door jam is that has your speaker, window motor wires running in it. That's one place I suspect so where does the antenna wire run so I can seal that hole back up? A mouse in a car that electronic is very bad news and it's already starting to smell and its pissing me off.
 
#2 ·
If you're serious, then put in some poison. That'll hopefully kill the ****er before it destroys anything internally. Then, where do you park it? Inside/outside?
Is there anything inside your car to attract them - food, drink etc?
It either drops onto the car from above or climbs up the wheels and into the car - can only be via the heater or somewhere in the trunk I would think...
 
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#4 ·
Jiffy said:
If you're serious, then put in some poison.
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I would NOT recommend poison. If you do poison it then there's a good chance it's going to crawl into your car somewhere and die. Then it's going to rot and stink up the car. I would go with a trap of your choice so you can capture it (dead or alive, your personal choice) and remove it somewhere that's not in the car.
 
#6 ·
Moth balls don't work. Two our the summers ago i covered my shed floor with moth balls to keep the mice out of my mower. You couldn't step on the floor without stepping on at least one ball. With the shed closed you could smell it 100' away if you were down wind. The mice still got into my mower.

But peanut butter is a good bait.
 
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I think moth balls effect mice just as humans. Some people don't bother them others can't stand it. The first one I tried peanut butter on sticky trap. Didn't work. Then my baby girl rode in the car one day with some fruit loops, the next day I found one with chew marks. I said to myself "now that's your ass!" Caught that one that night. Now the second one, the current one, I still have the sticky trap out with different foods and still nothing. But I haven't seen it lately either. But usually when I drop my guard on it I'll spot em again. I have no choice to park it outside and I live right next to a field on both sides of my trailer and I live in a trailer yyeehhaaww lol. The land is always grassy and wet from all this damn rain lately. Where's the hole for the heater/ac vent? I'd like to see about blocking it with some netting of some sort. Again, does anyone know where the factory antenna cable runs into the car?
 
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The fact of getting rid of them isn't the problem. I can catch them all day long. The problem is I'm trying to get ideas to prevent the next one coming in. I have a 98 GT convertible with no top just sitting at my house and it doesn't have not one sign of a mouse in it. Crazy.
 
#12 ·
Check under the back seat. There are plugs that lead to the underside of the car. I had mice in mine and I think that's where they were getting in. I had a nest where my spare tire was and under my speaker cover in the back...

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What you do is get 1 part powdered aluminum, 2 parts powdered iron oxide, and some strips of thin magnesium. Preferably at least six inches long.

Mix up the aluminum and iron oxide and pour it into a soda can. It's best if you fill it up. Now stick one of the magnesium strips in the powder and have it poking out the top. Set that somewhere in the middle of the cabin, light it and shut the door. It creates a gas that is noxious to life, and will kill all the rats. Let it permeate for a few days the air it out. Boom no more rats! and a gaping hole in your car and pavement


Don't actually do this, I'm not responsible if you ruin your car :lol
 
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#17 ·
lol, i was sitting here reading that and saying to my self "isnt this how you make a bomb?! is this guy serious?!" lmao. i havent seen any since but it hasnt been raining alot here either. i really think its because they were trying to get out of the rain a few weeks back. my whole yard becomes a pond when it rains for more than two days. but thanks guys.
 
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#20 ·
Nope. Did that already too. Stuck my nose in the air coming out the vents. As I stated before. I did check the basics. I always check the basics before I post. Sometimes one of you might say something that I didn't think about.lol. I still need to know where the antenna cable goes into the car. Anybody know?
 
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#21 ·
well. i unplugged my antenna cable and plugged up the rubber grommet connecting the door to the chassis and i havent seen a mouse one. but im giving it time as i let my guard down ill see one lol. i still have yet to find or have been told where the antenna cable actually goes into the interior of the car as it too has a grommet.
 
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