Mice in my ute!!!

[goodpawn]

I dont open my ute up too often as its parked up at work and only gets driven every 3 weeks, but had to get something from inside it today and noticed ******* mouse crap on the seat.
Where are they getting in from?
The mice around here are freaking tiny and I ve tried trapping them in the kitchen but the traps arent sensitive enough to catch them, I just end up feeding the little ******.
But this now means war. any ideas on how to stop them getting inside the cabin? I noticed a few weeks ago some crap in the engine bay as well.
Please help if you got suggestions
Cheers

[Kil4Collingwood]

Id be more concerned about the engine, mice like chewing wires.

[J.C.]

Ever considered investing in a cat?
If you do, don't feed it to much as they get lazy..............just like us.

Failing that, Mortein Ratsak generally cleans them up pretty quicky. Just make sure that your fat, lazy cat doesn't go eating the baited mice.

[goodpawn]

Originally Posted by J.C.

Ever considered investing in a cat?
If you do, don't feed it to much as they get lazy..............just like us.

Failing that, Mortein Ratsak generally cleans them up pretty quicky. Just make sure that your fat, lazy cat doesn't go eating the baited mice.

I live on a mining camp so cats out of the question. I did see a feral cat walking over my ute one night. I should have caught it and chained the bastard to my wheel. Cant use ratsak either due to mines environmental policy. Cant even kill a spider here, have to call enviro officer in to remove it, same as mice but not worried about getting caught killing them!
Any other ideas?

[rancidpunx]

If it is a B series ute they get in through the aircon. Pull the glove box out and have a look in there, possibly behind the filter. Its actually a fairly common problem shared with the Territory. Theres a pipe underneath that they can climb up through and then nibble their way in.

The problems with baiting them is they could die in a body panel somewhere that you cant find or fish out.
Realistically theres not much you can do. Ive, touch wood, never had them in the cabin in my FG but found one in my front bar after I left the car in the carport whilst I was on holiday. I now leave a fake rubber snake under the car and another in front of the intercooler.

[dave351cid]

i had one in my BA ute last year. i had forgot and left the window down one night in the shed. i knew i had mice in the shed i was trying to get rid of.
anyway i set a normal mouse trap and put it behind the seat, took out any other goodys he might want to eat. next morning i had a dead mouse in the trap.

i dont know if its related or not but the heater hasnt worked since. have to pull the dash apart and look if it chewed something. not looking forward to that job.

[goodpawn]

Originally Posted by rancidpunx

If it is a B series ute they get in through the aircon. Pull the glove box out and have a look in there, possibly behind the filter. Its actually a fairly common problem shared with the Territory. Theres a pipe underneath that they can climb up through and then nibble their way in.

The problems with baiting them is they could die in a body panel somewhere that you cant find or fish out.
Realistically theres not much you can do. Ive, touch wood, never had them in the cabin in my FG but found one in my front bar after I left the car in the carport whilst I was on holiday. I now leave a fake rubber snake under the car and another in front of the intercooler.

Just checked the filter and sure enough there was crap on it. ******* little ****ers. Does the rubber snake trick work? It will make me look like a right goose if I get one and it doesnt work.

[J.C.]

I'm all for the Raksak.
Crack one open in your car and in the engine bay. Who going to know? The mice will run off by morning and not show the following night due to a sore belly.
You're only pretecting your property.
If the enviro's are so concerned about their mice, ask them what they would do if it was their rig. I'm sure they wouldn't like hopping into their cars and driving along, all the while sucking up the smell of rodent p!ss.

[rancidpunx]

Originally Posted by goodpawn

Just checked the filter and sure enough there was crap on it. ******* little ****ers. Does the rubber snake trick work? It will make me look like a right goose if I get one and it doesnt work.

Ive not had anything since but then its summer now so the chance of real snakes being around is a lot higher. I also heard that ****ing around your car works as your marking your territory, big predator kinda thing lol. Mothball is another old wifes cure as well as plenty of those big rat traps.

[matty88]

Try one of those one way "humane" rat catchers, mousey gets in, can't get out.

[J.C.]

Originally Posted by rancidpunx

Ive not had anything since but then its summer now so the chance of real snakes being around is a lot higher. I also heard that ****ing around your car works as your marking your territory, big predator kinda thing lol. Mothball is another old wifes cure as well as plenty of those big rat traps.

Excellent suggestion. Buy a carton, call three of your mates around, head to the car and take a corner each . That's sure to confuse the little furry buggers.

As silly as the above suggestion may sound, it .......may.....just ...work!
Just don't do it while sober, just in case you get sprung.

[IceValk85]

Originally Posted by J.C.

Excellent suggestion. Buy a carton, call three of your mates around, head to the car and take a corner each . That's sure to confuse the little furry buggers.

As silly as the above suggestion may sound, it .......may.....just ...work!
Just don't do it while sober, just in case you get sprung.

hahahaha great idea!

only one problem... instead of your car smelling like mouse pee, its smells like your mate Chonga's whiz!

probably strip the paint too

[jaydee]

Put a half full bucket of water in the passengers foot well with a little bridge out of plastic/perspex, (something that they cant get a grip on) for them to walk out onto and when they get to the end they fall in and I dont think they can tread water for very long.
Have it going from the seat out into the middle of the bucket.
Obviously a little peanut butter on the end of the plank as bait, have it on such an angle that that they should just slip off the edge.
If you use ratsak they might go and die in your A/C vent or something and stink out your car.

[goodpawn]

Originally Posted by rancidpunx

Ive not had anything since but then its summer now so the chance of real snakes being around is a lot higher. I also heard that ****ing around your car works as your marking your territory, big predator kinda thing lol. Mothball is another old wifes cure as well as plenty of those big rat traps.

Theres a few holden fans round here that would happily **** all over my ford if given the chance. I was told that there is a poison that makes them seek out water before they die so might give that a go and hope one doesnt get stuck in the panels somewhere and die.
cheers for the suggestions

[J.C.]

Originally Posted by jaydee

Put a half full bucket of water in the passengers foot well with a little bridge out of plastic/perspex, (something that they cant get a grip on) for them to walk out onto and
when they get to the end they fall in and I dont think they can tread water for very long.
Have it going from the seat out into the middle of the bucket.
Obviously a little peanut butter on the end of the plank as bait, have it on such an angle that that they should just slip off the edge.
If you use ratsak they might go and die in your A/C vent or something and stink out your car.

He's trying to get rid of them dude, not offer them free entry to the water park.
With ratsak, they go looking for water,so hopefully, they make it outside an not get to sidetracked before going leg up.

[dave351cid]

you can get those posion blocks now.

a pest control guy told me that the red ones will make them go away looking for water, the green ones make them hemerage internally and they will not get far from the bait.

i had a large rat in the ceiling of the house week before last , put one red bait up there tied to a fafter with cable tie. in 2 days it was completly gone and there has been no sign or smell of the rat since.
last winter i had a heap of mice got in the shed . put out green baits and had a shed full of stinky dead mice.

[LUV DE COUPE]

At my place the mice have thinned out,went to start the P6 the other day would'nt fire lift the bonney a family of sh#$%y rabbits were living on top of the engine and had chewed the leads off the dizzy. Towed car out of machinary shed and into fully enclosed shed

[Phyber]

Holy crap! Rabbits! Sure they weren't gigantic mutant mice?

[mik]

Originally Posted by dave351cid

you can get those posion blocks now.

a pest control guy told me that the red ones will make them go away looking for water, the green ones make them hemerage internally and they will not get far from the bait.

i had a large rat in the ceiling of the house week before last , put one red bait up there tied to a fafter with cable tie. in 2 days it was completly gone and there has been no sign or smell of the rat since.
last winter i had a heap of mice got in the shed . put out green baits and had a shed full of stinky dead mice.

i have just been told about this stuff recently myself, i believe the name of the stuff is something like racumin, we have a rather large rat that`s taken up residence in our garage/ back yard, we had a cat take up residence in our back yard for a while ......but i think the rat ate it

[aussie muscle]

Originally Posted by jaydee

Put a half full bucket of water in the passengers foot well with a little bridge out of plastic/perspex, (something that they cant get a grip on) for them to walk out onto and when they get to the end they fall in and I dont think they can tread water for very long.

dunno about treading water, but they can swim. they can also hold their breath for about 5-6 minutes underwater.
i have problems with them getting under the bonnet (i can see their foot prints in the dust). trouble is it's cold outside and nice and warm under the hood.

[rancidpunx]

Originally Posted by goodpawn

Theres a few holden fans round here that would happily **** all over my ford if given the chance. I was told that there is a poison that makes them seek out water before they die so might give that a go and hope one doesnt get stuck in the panels somewhere and die.
cheers for the suggestions

**** around your ute numb nuts not on it I live in the country so didnt see a problem waving my wang around the car port. But after finding Mr mouse under my intercooler I went a bit nuts and would try anything. As someone said its nice and warm in the engine bay. I have about 10 traps a couple of rubber snakes out there now and not seen any evidence since. Apart from the dead ones in the traps.

Remember also where there is one there are many. As winter comes around the problem gets worse especially with the wet summer. Last year there were plague amounts for rats and mice around. I imagine this year will be the same. With all the snakes moving in to peoples ceilings for the winter they roam about outside fairly safe.

I also may be talking complete ***** but have come across a few unwanted hitchhikers with customers cars and had to seek advise from Pros on how best the customer might remove them.

[b2tf]

Originally Posted by dave351cid

you can get those posion blocks now.

a pest control guy told me that the red ones will make them go away looking for water, the green ones make them hemerage internally and they will not get far from the bait.

The different colours signify different active ingredients, green ones are typically Bromadiolone, red ones can be Brodifacoum and Comalateryl etc.

I wouldnt spend too much time 'proofing' the car but rather focus on getting rid of them from the area where the car is stored. Use bait placed around the place and minimise any food sources that might be making the area attractive to them.

[galaxy xr8]

I'd be going something like this,
http://www.derwenttraders.com.au/con...n-us/d236.html
I have a different version that I bought from Bunning's, they work and are very effective.
For one you don't have dangerous bait around to harm other animal's, like if you have a dog on your property and you use harmfull bait, the mouse/rat takes it, run's away and dies, then the dog etc eat's the mouse/rat ?.
And you don't have to worry about setting the trap each time like normal mouse trap's that will only catch one per time, so obviously your vehicle is not used for period's of time, this will catch number's of them if they are there.
A little peanut butter and they will find there way there.

[dylby1]

Dont bait them. Thats what i did and the ****** died in my vents somewhere, never found it but it stank so bad for ages. Cant remember the name of the carpet deoderant stuff i got but one drop in each of the 4 footwells was enough to kill the dead mouse smell for 2 days, and it had completely gone away after about 2 weeks.
It sucks.
That was with the red bait that makes them hunt for water too, so i wouldnt trust it to stop them dying in your car.

[mik]

Originally Posted by dylby1

Dont bait them. Thats what i did and the ****** died in my vents somewhere, never found it but it stank so bad for ages. Cant remember the name of the carpet deoderant stuff i got but one drop in each of the 4 footwells was enough to kill the dead mouse smell for 2 days, and it had completely gone away after about 2 weeks.
It sucks.
That was with the red bait that makes them hunt for water too, so i wouldnt trust it to stop them dying in your car.

nilodour?

[dylby1]

Originally Posted by mik

nilodour?

thats the one. bloody Good stuff.

[1970galaxie]

Get one of these new fandangled plastic mouse traps. Similar to the old wooden ones but modern.
Peanut paste will do the trick every time. Better than cheese.

Something like this one.

[cowboy]

I had this problem a while back in all my cars. I work on the oil rigs so I'm away 4 weeks at a time and the mice moved into my shed. I now place Racumin sachets or Storm blocks under the cars and in the footwells of all of them. Never had one die and stink up the car yet.

I also built bucket traps. Ordinary bucket with a wire across it and a small bottle coated in peanut butter skewered on the wire. Fill the bucket half full of water and put a ramp leading up to the bottle. They walk onto the bottle to eat, it rotates and drops them in. They can swim but they can't tread water forever. I was getting 40-50 mice a night in 6 of these traps for a while.

[BPXR6T]

My Porsche and GT are stored in a shed in the country. No mice as I have a BIG brown snake lurking in the shed somewhere. Not that I'm recommending you stick a brown in your ute...