Cold Storage - Car cover or not?

[Allen]

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one word. or is it two? MOTHBALLS!! I crush a few around the doors of the garage and put them in the ashtrays and glove box. no rodents come near the car.....

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Probably because they're scare of what you'd do to them after seeing what was left of the moths.

[Keith Tedford]

Mothballs seem to work pretty well but not entirely. Ask my wife what she felt under a seat when pulling out the old mothballs last spring. At least the furry little critter was dead. Dale wasn't impressed. Mouse traps are for sure.

[BBIGG BLOCK 396]

Does anyone use those clear plastic car capsules that you seal your car inside.I have a friend that uses one and he loves it.His setup even has a dehumidifier setup that keeps all the moisture out of the capsule! Thing looks like a large bubble blowed up!Also about the mice ! I like the old spring traps also and the glue traps work well too.

[SmallHurst]

I have also heard that the green Irish Spring bars will do a good job of keeping mice out of cars. My grandpa always left the hoods open on the trucks at the farm. Mice will not make a nest if it is not dark and closed off.

[black69]

I just thought I would throw out my 2 cents on car storage. I do have cars stored all over the place because I don't have one big fancy garage with forced air heat. What I came up with is I use the 220 hookup at the airconditioner and wired into that for baseboard heater and set it at 40-45. I put that in 3 garages over a weekend, the trick is to mount the baseboard heater on the opposite side of where the 220 junction box is for the airconditioner, to keep the 220 wiring short. Clean easy and safe. No new breakers to install. You can get the whole set up at home depot and its easy to install. No gaselines, venting issues.
I put the standard cover on and 4 mouse traps (one at each corner of each car.