tonite i decided to take my 71 to the store to get a case of cold ones after it was parked for the winter due to road salt and about 2-3 miles down the road a dang mouse run up my pants leg.HOW and the heck ya keep these lil varments out of your truck in the winter????? i put moth ***** in there (thats what i always use) but that didnt seem to work this year.just imagine goin down the road and a lil fury thing winds up in your brittches so not cool they sould all meet a realy mean cat lol.

 

Now that's gotta be one of the more unusual truck problems I've read on here...!

Reminds me of when I bought my '68 last winter. It had been sitting for 10 years and was full of droppings so I know it had been home to lots of little beasties...(I had to pull the glovebox and toss it, it was full up with droppings...there are even stains running down the dash from the glovebox door that rusted into the paint! Carpet was gross too...)

The funny part was that a buddy bought a '69 F-600 water truck from the same guy, also sitting for the last 8-10 years. After we got it started (fired right up of course with some fresh gas and a battery) he was driving it home while I followed and he suddenly swerved to the shoulder of the road and sat there for a minute or two before moving out again. After we got back to his shop I asked him what had happend there and he told me that a rat had jumped up on the seat next to him and sat there looking at him, he was looking for something to swat the little bugger with when it jumped off and went back into hiding! Made my day...

I like the small containers of D-con for parked vehicles. Only problem is if the critters have a nest somewhere in your vehicle and croak in it, they can start to decompose and get a little stinky. Not too bad though, the D-con dries 'em out so you find this little hard, dessicated corpse sometime in the future.

 

ya i thought about d-con but i dont want the things to die it the truck.the mothballs stink bad enuff but i just leave the doors open for a day or two in the spring.the worst part of this whole ordeal is i didnt even get the case of cold ones!!

 

Lol that is a good one like what tiger dan said i never heard of any more unusual truck problems funny story

 

Just put a mouse trap in there and check it about every week

 

I've been using drier sheets [ the ones the wife uses in the drier to avoid wrinkles] in my project trucks for several years. They work great! Something about the smell keeps the mice away! A friend in the used car business told me about the trick, and it seems to work. I put one on top of the air cleaner, and it keeps the mice out of the engine bay too!



FABMANDELUX.

 

Probably makes things smell too clean and fresh for the little buggers...

 

Peppermint oil will work according to my wife. She uses around the house in the winter time.

 

Had this problem with my vette, drove it the next weekend we found insulation on the floor. I used traps inside and out. Willing to try what ever to keep the buggers out of my rides. We bought a farm years ago, the old machine shop is where we store the vehicles. The problem I had with poison is the mice pack it around the place, I found some near by the chicken coop.

 

Thing about rats I didnt know is they do not have a bladder control muscle.They leave a trail of pee everywhere they walk.As far as getting them out try a nice big black snake,,,just jokin but be glad that it was just a rat runnin up your leg and NOT a snake. Snakes sometimes like to get into parked cars too,they must be lookin for the mice

 

OMG, I thought I was the only one this ever happend to, driving down the road about 70 mph and I had a rat jump up on my knee then onto the widow sill, suicide rat made the dive, I almost wrecked when he hised at me from the window sill, but the guy tailgaiting me did go off the road.....lol

 

i couldnt imagine a rat!this was just a plain simple mouse i just got done buildin my new house in july probly shouldnt have built it in a hay feild them lil feild mice are every where.i know all about the snakes in car to when i lived in tx a freind and i drug home an ol50 somthing chev truck and there was a king snake living in it

 

my friend had this problem with his car he bought from some guy up in sequim, WA. mice had run up the tailpipes and built a nest in the cylinder. luckly, nothing bad happened, he just had to pull the heads and clean 'em.

...he wondered why it didnt start.