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Bloody mice chewed through two turbo sensor pipes in my Passat. Result? A bill for £85. Now they've done it again on the repaired pipes.
I killed one mouse under the bonnet yesterday with a spring trap but I want to wrap these pipes in wire mesh. You can buy SS mesh on Amazon but it won't roll tightly round the pipes or accommodate their shape.
What about copper mesh? Anyone tried it?
Seal the car in a polyethylene bag. Run engine for 30 mins. Gas the little ****ers.
Can you not use an ultra sonic deterrent.
This looks alright:
There seems to be absolutely tons of this kind of stuff on the internet.
Although the deterrent idea (peppermint oil is mentioned) would be better if it works because if you wrap one bit of pipe they'll just move on to another - or maybe some wiring.
How about poisoning some peanut butter or something they'll prefer to rubber?
An engineering solution on the Vauxhall Vivaro was to wrap the bulb fuel pump in a fancy tin foil. So you could try wrapping them in tin foil. There is an additive in the rubber that attracts some animals. The Vivaro issue was found in Germany in an area that had a lot pine martens.
Thanks. I think it will have to be copper, which will scrunch and pack around the pipes. Until I can get some I'll use foil from a pie dish.
I think it was something like this that we used.
https://www.vikingtapes.co.uk/collections/aluminium-foil-tapes
Use poison, stop mucking about with traps
Yup, poison is the answer.
I put some out in the garage, they must of liked it because the ate a hole right through the box to get some more.
It must be a diesel Passat. Petrol ones have an inbuilt cat.
Poison will sort the problem. Until new ones move in.
Wrap the pipes, remove the source and they'll find something else.
Park outside like everyone else does.
How many separate mouse threads do you need?
Mice are small, making them hard to keep out with mesh. But cats are large, making them easier to keep in. Sorted.
I've put two bait stations and three traps under the bonnet.
I've never come across this. Though back in my civil engineer days we had a huge problem in Northumberland Water Authority sewage works with rats eating plastic pipework valves and penstocks. We had to go back to good old fashioned expensive iron.
SWA cable. Pull out one of the cores them push your vacuum hose through the gap
You will habe some on your building site
One of these 😀
Just wrap the hoses in anti-rodent tape:
No idea if it works. The reason they like the cables and hoses is that they are extruded using a vegetable (Soya?) based lubricant*.
*According to the internet
Scattering round poison outside will potentially lead to the deaths of other animals that come across a nice juicy recently deceased mouse. Traps are the way to go but put them in a box to prevent hedgehogs etc getting stuck in them.