Mouse in Mi Maserati, what am I gonna do?

[MrCoop]

I'm gonna fix that mouse, that's what I'm gonna do!

Cracking day yesterday, so decided to take the car out. Opened the boot to turn the battery back on and I find my daughters blanket completely shredded. Not sure how the mice got in, but it looks like they are living in the rear passenger side panel. I found further evidence of the blanket/mice droppings in the passenger footwell, and more blanket coming out of the gap between the rear seat and the door card.

Annoyingly, when I'd looked at the car last week, there were no mice.

What's the best way of getting rid of them? I've put some poison in the boot but last thing I want is a decomposing mouse in my car!

 

[CatmanV2]

I'm gonna fix that mouse, that's what I'm gonna do!

Cracking day yesterday, so decided to take the car out. Opened the boot to turn the battery back on and I find my daughters blanket completely shredded. Not sure how the mice got in, but it looks like they are living in the rear passenger side panel. I found further evidence of the blanket/mice droppings in the passenger footwell, and more blanket coming out of the gap between the rear seat and the door card.

Annoyingly, when I'd looked at the car last week, there were no mice.

What's the best way of getting rid of them? I've put some poison in the boot but last thing I want is a decomposing mouse in my car!

Lock a cat in there

Ultrasonics are meant to be good. Regarding poison, I read somewhere that mice are too dry to rot in any meaningful way, so they just desicate. Not sure I'd trust that particular internet gem though.

C

 

[Wack61]

Little nipper , peanut butter

I've tried the humane ones and they don't work in my experience

Do it quick before they chew the wiring

 

[daverichardson]

The wiring is a big concern and any flexible pipes
My mate had to replace ALL his home plastic plumbing downstairs because they had chewed around each valve or bend.
I assume the plastic is tougher there and better for them to gnaw on
Anyway it is urgent!

 

[spkennyuk]

http://how-to-get-rid-of-mice.com/keep-mice-out-of-cars-rvs/

https://youtu.be/JeBnKBnBBMM

I would sort it asap they can cause £k's in damage italian electrics can be bad enough without the "meeces eating them to pieces". (Best mr Jinx impression required.)

Its less like this


And more like this

 

[CatmanV2]

Little nipper , peanut butter

I've tried the humane ones and they don't work in my experience

Same here. The cats worked fine, though

C

 

[GeoffCapes]

A bit extreme, but a mate had a mouse (turned out to be mice) in his VW Camper van. What he ended up doing is taking anything out of it that they might find as a nice place to stay warm. Which meant all of the seats, sound deadening, padding, foam, I think even the carpets came out.

He found absolutely zero places left in the van where they could be, just as he was about to start putting it all back in, a mouse jumped out of the bottom of a seat, followed by another 4 or 5.

Fortunately for him, the VW Camper isn't the most hightec of vehicles and there wasn't much in the way of chewed wires, but they crapped everywhere.
A proper pain in the backside though.

We had them in our loft and they are a nightmare. I'm all for being human to animals etc, but poison is your only way. Chocolate covered in the stuff works a treat.

 

[allandwf]

Chocolate works well also. Face trap towards wall/bulkhead as the little blighters tend to scurry along the edges.

 

[c4sman]

Traditional trap with peanut butter will be your best bet. don't mess around with the sealed plastic trap as they are not as good. Poison is not ideal as they will smell as the decompose and generally go and hide somewhere you can't get at them in order to die.

 

[StuartW]

Sorry to hear that MrCoop, I feel your pain - I have horror stories but I won't share them, the memories are still too fresh but ask Shiltech about my AC if you want to know!

I use bait boxes under the car with either chocolate, peanut butter of the pasta based mouse poisons. I also position plastic poison boxes in the engine bays

I live in a farmhouse next to a yard with grain stores so harvest time is bedlam.

A feral cat is the way forward but that doesn't work with the dogs we have

 

[allandwf]

We had them in the Cinquecento we had in storage. The only chewed bit was the red insulation from the battery +ve lead! Took ages to find the nest, it was in the air filter box!!!

 

[Wack61]

They like hard dog food as well which is why I can't keep it in the garage any more

watch your fingers with the little nipper though, I was fully expecting to find a king charles spaniel coming out of the garage with one stuck to her nose because shes like lightning where food is concerned but luckily it had a mouse in it

 

[2b1ask1]

Traditional traps (multiple) with peanut butter (not too much) smeared over the trigger plate so they have to gnaw it and set it off. Don't just use one trap as you probably have a family in there by now.

Act fast and put them in the cabin as well as boot. Has the alarm been set off at all?

 

[daverichardson]

Yes traps are better than poison,
You know you have the little bu99ers then
Set a few (chocolate works as bait too) in different places over a week and then hopefully you have done it.
I had to do this in my greenhouse because as fast I planted seeds, they dug 'em up again and ate 'em - it was all out war
But where did they get in?

 

[RSM Masser]

Mate of mine had them nesting in his exhaust on a Ducatti
Termignogi cooked mouse didn't smell nice - but the perplexed look on his face when it just would not rev was a picture until a roasted mouse popped out the pipe!

 

[TridentTested]

Do something quick before they eat wiring. A car can be written-off by rodents. Just imagine the replacement cost of one of the main looms.

We had mice in our block of flats a few years ago. Together with our neighbours we tried everything: humane traps, traditional traps, chocolate bait, cheese bait, ultra-sonics, everything.

They only thing which finally worked was getting a commercial pest control company in and putting industrial quantities of poisoned traps everywhere.

 

[rossyl]

I would put the traps (the proper ones as already mentioned) EVERYWHERE!

A few in the boot, rear parcel shelf, seats, on the carpet, under the car, under the bonnet.

A few in each place.

I would keep replacing them for weeks. Till you've killed all of them. You will struggle to find their way in to the car.

The area they are in is chock full of wires and relays so it's pretty urgent.

Good luck!

 

[Guest 1678]

The Northamptonshire branch of the rodent world are very partial to White Chocolate buttons or the Strawberry soft centres from Quality Street. They are not so partial to the little Nipper that seems to break their backs.

 

[conaero]

We used to have mice in our barn office we used to trade from. Many time would get in and droppings all over the desk.

We used the Little Nipper but at first I loaded it with cheese, bit of a cliche and did not work.

Then an old lady client of ours told us about McV's Hobnobs, I did indeed have the same effect as a Kebab house to a drunk!

 

[Needamaser]

Not poison. As said will die somewhere you cant find them and also the risk of something eating them after they die or are half dead.
Good trap with peanut butter or Nutella (although bread works well too) and I would suggest you tie the trap(s) to something solid with likes of twine or strimmer wire as I have had many over the years that get caught by one leg and will drag themselves and the trap away somewhere you will never find them until the smell gives you a clue!
I found one in the garage last night that had vanished with the trap over 2 years ago before I started tying them to something.
Always concerned dead mice will attract rats.
Had an Alfa and a Subaru over the years attacked by them and wiring and insulation was their targets.