Mice Chewing Up Your Car Wiring? A public service message from Andrew Yiannakis

Mice Chewing Up Your Car Wiring?

Folks:

I have found what appears to be a permanent and effective solution to this problem. And it’s a very serious problem because if mice decide to nest in your engine , or anywhere in your car, they will eventually chew through all your car wiring and your car will become inoperable.

I’ve had to spend over $650 to just repair the problem with our two cars!  To cut a long story short the solution I’ve come up with, after talking to a lot of people, is this:

1. Place about half a dozen mothballs in each of two socks and attach them overnight somewhere under the hood of your car. Remove the stocks before you use your car. Don’t drive with the socks under the hood.
2. Install an ultrasound device from Amazon (or where you can get a good price) and every night stake it in front of your car about six feet away from the front bumper of your car
3. Sprinkle a dozen or so loose mothballs on the ground under the engine of your car.

From my experience over two months of use the mothball solution is about 70% to 80% effective and the ultrasound device about 20-30%. These are 0nly estimates.

The problem has disappeared completely. No more mice and no more chewed up wiring.

NOTE: This is the ultrasound devices I bought (for two cars):

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M2V6NJ4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Hope this helps.

Andrew Yiannakis, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Author: andrewyiannakis

Andrew Yiannakis, Ph.D., is currently a Research Professor at the University of New Mexico (USA). He is also Professor Emeritus from the University of Connecticut where he taught the Sociology of Leisure, Tourism & Sport, as well as Research Methods and Computer Applications. He also holds the rank of 8th Dan in Traditional Jujutsu and a 6th Dan in Traditional Kodokan Judo. He is the Director of the Institute of Traditional Martial Arts at the University of New Mexico. He is also the Chair of the Traditional Jujutsu Committee of the USJJF. As an amateur historian, he has led several expeditions to Greece to conduct research at Thermopylae, and locate the path the Persians used in 480 BC to encircle, and defeat King Leonidas and the Greek allies. Prof. Yiannakis has published extensively in a number of areas. View all posts by andrewyiannakis