how to keep mice out of your stored car.

Now that I have your attention, How the hell do you keep the mice out of a stored car?

I'll send you my worthless cat.
Maybe you could get some cat urine soaked kitty litter from a friend and put it in a coffee can (open) in or around the car. I've not had a lot of luck keeping mice out of anywhere they take a mind to go. There's always mouse traps. I bait mine with peanut butter.
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Our friend out in Oregon has to pop the cover off of her air cleaner just about every day before going to work to get the new, nightly nest out of there. The mice caught on a while back and then set up their newest condo in her heater!

I've seen (at home depot) a little electronic device that emits a high frequency sound that supposedly repels mice - Kathy even tried one in our last house and it seemed to work. Can't say I guarantee it, but at least the sounds in the walls got less.

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Now we have four mini-Doxies patrolling the garage daily. But, unfortunately, last year they chased a rat up into a wall through a hole in the drywall where they stood watch until it died. Hundreds of blow-flies started to assemble and for a month I thought we were going to have to move out because of the putrid death smell. Exterminators wanted an arm and a leg to tear out the drywall to retrieve it. Their other solution was to burn incense until the body had fully decomposed which we did, reminded me of the 70s. After that situation, we patched up all the drywall, and now we let the Doxies have free rein to patrol the area regularly as they see fit. Result = no rats. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm about to lose my breakfast from all this blow-fly talk.

When the fall chill came early this year, I received a couple of uninvited guests in the house. A couple traps confirmed the worst. I got those plug in electric gizmos and put them in the room where I was pretty sure they were coming in and traps throughout the house. After catching 2 more.....nothing. The dog would stare out the back patio door for about a week after the electric gizmos went in and then she lost interest. So, I think they work.

Another group swears by Bounce fabric softner sheets placed in their cars. No personal experience, but they seem to have found favor.
FWIW Bill

Bounce sheets in the bottom of shop work benches, no little visitors since placed there.

My wife hates mice. We have softner sheets all over!!! No mice. My oldest son made the mistake of buying unscented sheets. They do not work.

Electrically wire the floor and buy yourself rubber boots. If a mouse comes in, BOOM, SNAP, CRACKLE, POP. With some brewskis this could be a winter entertainment device with friends. Just remember to always put on the boots.

Scented Bounce also keeps mosquitos away...

Traps with peanut butter. Place alot of them, check them often and replace the used ones immediately (I don't reuse them!). My wife has the electric gizmos in the garage and I trap mice right under them.

Now, THAT one I haven't heard

- bet'cha they'll work a whole lot better than that Mosquito Magnet I wasted a lot of money on...

George, I never thought I'd hear you utter the words 'scented Bounce'. I bet you don't say that in the gunshop! :-)