Mouse Turds In My Car--What To Do?

I don't get mouse logic. The first year we moved here we parked our Suburban near a nice, dry, locked storage shed. A mouse or mice systematically carried pounds of bird seed out of the cozy shed, into the Suburban and squirreled it away under the head liner in the far back. We didn't notice until we drove it and a deluge of bird seed rained down. Why wouldn't they just camp in the shed and eat at leisure? Why go to all that trouble? It was the first evidence of mice so they had to forge their own expedition into the Suburban.

The water bucket traps works well. We have a rule for my daughter when she brings one of her ponies into a stall for the night: Empty the waterbucket when you turn the horses back out. You'd think cleaning the buckets once after she finds dead and bloated mice teeming with maggots in them would do the trick, but still she forgets to empty the water buckets.

Try mouse traps on the tires when parked...lots of mice climb on them. Some people have had luck with peppermint oil keeping them away too.

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Try glue traps inside the car. You could also set a few on the ground around the tires. Safer for kids, that way no snapped fingers, the only drawback is disposing of a sticky mouse. Since mice love to chew things, like electrical wires and hoses, you may want to bait a few and put them in the engine compartment and trunk. Just remember to remove them from the engine comparment BEFORE starting the engine...

You probably have a bigger problem than the mice inside the passenger compartment.
My mother had mice build a nest INSIDE the air duct system of her car, completely plugging the heater/ac. They chewed wires in the engine. They bring in bedding and fill the ducts with it to live in it. They poop in the air ducts and if you DONT have a nest completely blocking it, whenever you turn on any source of air in the car you are filling the air with mouse poop dust and urine.

Park the car away from the mouse smorgasbord of grain and woodchips, I guarantee that parts of your car are now filled with woodchips and grain from the barn.

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No food no mice??? HA, we didn't keep food in the van and we cleaned it out immediately after if we had to eat in it (our camping vehicle) and the mice not only got in but brought their own food with them!!!!! If there is a sheltered place and mice can get in it they will nest there.

We had the same problem, the mice were getting in our new minivan. We set 3 traps in the van before we went to bed and I would empty the traps in the morning, after 4 or 5 days they didnt come back.

Yeah, this is a recent problem, because I was in that very compartment two days ago jumping someone's car, and no nest nor mouse. This morning when vacuuming, I found the mouse had made a nest of some of the car insulation, plus some wild seed, etc. that it had brought in. I think the sticky traps on the wheels is a great idea that I'll try since I'm getting some sticky traps to put in the car under the seats. I'm off to check the snap traps...

I opened the glove compartment in our jeep and found a mouse nest in there! GADS. They ARE disgusting creatures.

Clean, clean, clean and clean some more. No food in the car.

Hm...I better follow my own advice! Mine needs a good cleaning too.

2 weeks ago I found a big rat in my grandpas shed. I chopped it twice with a hatchet then my cousin stabbed it with a pitch fork and brought it over to the fire screaching and screaming. He slid it off the pitch fork which it was impaled on into the fire, it ran out of the firepit about 15 feet before I could catch it and chop it a couple more times. We threw it in the fire again and it twitched for about 30 seconds while it burned. These things are almost unkillable.

Mothballs work well here to keep mice from going in the attic or pantry.

They'll make your car smell something fierce, though.

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Mothballs in discrete locations throughout the car. My grandad used to do this with any car that was going to be parked for longer than a week or two. Worked like a charm.

That's not good inhaling moth ball poison. It would be better just to trap 'em.
Mothballs contain Naphthalene, repeated exposure to fumes can be FATAL. Naphthalene can be absorbed through the skin, always wear gloves. Watch for signs of eye, nose, throat, lung irratation, respiratory problems, confusion, headache, nausea, vomiting, and fatigue. Mothballs are to be treated as hazordous waste and disposed of as such.

I use a spray called Mouse Out......Some of the farm implement dealers carry it to rid mice in trucks,cabs. It sure works good inside the house.Spray a little on a paper plate . U will see no mice again.

I knew someone in Texas who had roaches in her car.

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Throw the cat in the car...mouse problem resolved

I took it that you eat while driving too because of the way you phrased it 'on the way'.
I ended up with this picture in my head of you driving with your knee while you had a spoon in one hand and a bowl of cereal in the other hand.
Fruit Loops.

Good luck, hopefully you were able to scare it off. They work fast. It is amazing how many tunnels field mice can dig in my garden in just a couple of days. That's the main reason why our coop/run has a concrete floor and a buried wire perimeter.

No prob, burb. I worded it wrong.

I thought about the cat in the car thing, and then I had a vision of some little morsel that my cats would always leave on the doorstep when I was a kid--a stomach, a little paw--and the thought of one propped on my steering wheel in the AM is a bit much...that and the fact that DH is allergic.

Thanks for all your help, and I'll report back if anything comes up that's dramatic or funny enough to post.

Speaking fo funny things...I don't have any advice, but when I was scrolling through the topics I thought this one said MOOSE turds in my car