Remember the Jurassic Park poop lady?




BTW: Apparently mice likes eating newer cars. Honda sells a tape to put on wiring to stop rats from eating them. Rats Eating Wiring

 

Soy insulated wiring--from the Corporate Farm Lobby that brought you ethanol in your fuel.

 

Thanks. I bought a bottle of mice repellent, online, for around $30. It is not a big bottle. Every night I spray around my car. So it is almost gone. I don't know if it is helping. I also set up traps everywhere, caught zero mice. But then I have never seen mice in or around my house.

 

I have read a lot of threads but this one I can actually contribute with valuable info. Rodents hate peppermint. Any spray, powder or oil you apply will have to be reapplied regularly and after it gets wet.
If you want to catch them, rats tend to like local cuisine (mexican neighborhood =mexican flavors, indian = curry) and mice go mostly for grains, seeds, dried fruit and nut butter.
If you wanted to use an animal to rid you of your rodent problem cats make great hunters but lack in the motivation department. What you want is relentless regular perimeter checks and above average problem solving skills. Unfortunately ferrets are illegal in cali.
There are a lot of poop studies out there. My vet prescribed healthy chinchilla poo for one with digestive problems. Scientists are studying bacteria in rat poop to see how processed foods can lead to poor digestion. In some places people can even store their poo to repopulate good bacteria after surgery. Their is also a poop transplant. Poopology is very important, i would say it's no laughing matter but imagine the jokes in these labs.[/QUOTE]

 

Not sure which type of rodents right now, but I know something ate through our fuel line and it will be a $1500 bill for our 2015 FIT.

 

that sucks. i keep a small bowl of DCon in my garage to invite rodents for buffet style eatery AWAY from my cars.

 

Wow! What is it with mice and Fits in west Michigan?

Back in the winter of 2008, a few months after I got my car, my air intake switch stopped working. I thought there was ice build up or something and gave up trying to flip/force the switch. When I took my car in the following spring to have the air filter replaced (there was an odd smell...), my technician pulled out a massive mouse nest. That was what was blocking my intake switch! Thankfully, they didn't eat anything in/on my car... but it was just the weirdest "discovery" I'd ever found in any car I owned. :P My switch worked perfectly from there on out!

 

yah my 2009 got eaten too... i kept getting thermostat error and replaced the thing and flushed coolant only to find later the dtc kept coming back after driving through rain.

later took another GOOD look and found that an animal (rat?) bit through the harness. rain water was shorting it out.

resoldered and all was fixed.

 

It is probably BS, but I read on the internet (so it must be true) that the wires are supposedly made with a soy product and the mice are attracted to it. I have glue traps in my garage and caught one 6 hours later.

 

i'm gonna bring some peanut butter to the next car show and smear it on people's wirings

/evil laugh

 

I think Crunchy would work best.

 

lol it is true, actually.

i have dcon setup in my garage while my hobby cars hibernate in the winter, just in case.

 

Wow that is messed up! I had no idea my Fit was a rolling mouse magnet...

 

Got rodents in N. Florida, too. The car's been in the driveway for 6 years and only 1 cable damaged, so far. Easy fix with electric tape.

18 years ago I worked in Connecticut. Rodents were chewing our warehouse security/phone wiring on a regular basis. Something about plastics that seems tasty to them.