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Old 03-31-2007, 04:50 PM
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My wife suggested that I use dryer sheets to keep the mice away! Served me well for years. Put them in the interior on the engine in the tail pipes anywhere you might think they would like to live. Try it!
Old 03-31-2007, 09:06 PM
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Irish Spring Soap. On mice since I started using it 4 years ago.
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Try some Irish Spring Soap on Fabric Softener sheets
Old 04-01-2007, 12:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Jughead
snuggle fabric softener sheets....mice hate them. stuff them everywhere during storage.
Plus your interior will smell fresh when you pull her out of storage in the spring
Old 04-01-2007, 12:22 AM
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thats gotta be a whole lot better then the current smell of moth *****. which actually kept them out of the interior this year. instead they just moved inside the frame.
Old 04-01-2007, 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by 77BlueL82
Irish Spring Soap. On mice since I started using it 4 years ago.

How do you catch the mice?? To put it on them seems like too much work.
Old 04-01-2007, 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by 82Collectors
I know its more expensive than soap or fabric softener, but the car jacket has worked well for me to keep any critters out.


Been using them for 12 years and never a rodent problem.

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Old 04-01-2007, 04:38 PM
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I pulled a dead one out of my frame a while back that had been dead for years. I had a different experience with my C5. My girlfriend (now wife) planted some flowers in a planter in front of my house. I did not have a garage at that house, so my car stayed in the driveway. All of the flowers vanished. I thought that deer or squirrels ate them. Went for a ride one day and my car shut down. Opened the hood and there were all of the missing flowers, pinestraw, sticks, and other things made into a huge nest right beside my alternator. Popped the serpentine belt and left me stranded.
Old 04-01-2007, 07:02 PM
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My Rat infestation.



Old 04-01-2007, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by tylershamilton
My Rat infestation.




Man i just threw my dinner up
Old 04-01-2007, 07:16 PM
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The worst part was that babies were still alive.
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Always keep a trap with peanut butter on it in the corner of the garage. If you don't kill them they'll just relocate to someplace else you don't want them to.
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My mouse "trap"....I just turn him loose in garage occasionally....



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Old 04-02-2007, 12:16 PM
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Look at all the food that she stored up…


I had a large rat living in my garage last year…with all the dog food I store in the garage that rat was living good…
Old 04-02-2007, 09:25 PM
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I have had more problems with mice in the vette than any other car we have, oh and pack-rats! Pack-rats are the worst, they chew through anything they can and pack crap in every nook and cranny, but sence I have been putting soap ( Irish Spring ) in the car I have had very few.
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Squirrells (tree rats) .... I caught three of them and relocated their butts and everything seems pretty clean now...
Old 04-02-2007, 11:25 PM
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C5s come with built-in mouse traps.

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Rats are almost impossible to get rid of once they have babies. They'll try to chew thru steel to get to them.
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The upper "income" mice set up shop on your intake...for the view....the lower income mice move into the area around the starter and chew on the fusible links....
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ive been lucky on that part so far. little bastards havnt chewed through anything important yet. theyve just lived any place and every place in the car so far. even had one try running up my pant leg after i scared the crap out of it when the car started.

i probably should rip my seats out some time and see whats going on under there.

weirdest one ive found so far was the cooked mouse that was sitting ontop of my exhaust pipe. not a clue how he stayed up there, seeing as it looked like hed been there for quite some time.

i think ill go throw a bar of irish spring in the car tomarrow. itll beat the hell out of hte smell of moth *****.


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