headliner-mouseproofing

[DLK]

I had to chuckle reading the old posts and hearing people swear by a bunch of different solutions to keep them out of the inside of the car. I guess what I take out of the discussion is I will use about 4 of the suggested solutions and hope one of them works!

I have attached a couple pictures of the area next to my back window. I guess I have a pretty good idea what it is and that it cannot be cleaned. It's a shame because the rest of the headliner looks good.

[Frank Elder]

Flashlite and an inspection mirror, open the trunk and seal all unused holes and etc...same with under the dash/firewall,floorboards, check your door seals and last but not least roll up your windows.

Harder to get in without extra access points.

[claybill]

i think you are looking at a water leak and rust spots..

bill

[grey beard]

Haven't read the original thread to which you refer . . .

In my humble opinion, nothing you can do to plug holes or anything else can keep rodents out of vehicles. They can get in if they want to. And they want to . . .

Anything you put inside to kill them will allow them to die in there, as well. When that hsppens, you haul them around a good long time before they petrify back to the odorless stage - freeze-dried, mebby?

I have used moth balls with good success, storing a converitble over wihter months in a farm barn. I am told that osage orange seed balls also do the trick, but these rot within six months and must be removed or replentrished.

Good luck

[Tom Skinner]

Gentlemen,

Mouse traps.

What a novel Idea.

I keep several set continously.

One Christmas I got 4 little grey mice all in one day in my garage.

None got in my car.

You can buy a value pack of say 10 for $6.

If its a messy "Kill" just dump the hole trap instead of prying the little sweeties

out of there. The bloody messes make me think new mice won't approach a used trap so keep 20-30 traps on hand when the cool season comes

and watch em "rollin up the score" "10-20-30 40-50 or more the Bloody Red Baron of Germany".

Tom

PS. Please no bleeding heart liberal comments about animal cruelty.

They will Monk up your Car Man - That costs serious Money - WAKE UP.

[Don Coatney]

I agree. That looks like the window is leaking a little' date=' then caused rust spots. Don't think that's from mice.

Best way to keep mice out of a car is to at least start it up, and move it once a month or more.[/quote']

Norm;

Do your mice bail out if you leave the driveway?

[Captain Neon]

Do you have video? I need to see it to believe it.

I have a witness and photos to attest that my car gets out, and we do have video footage of Don taking his family to Sonic in his car.

[DLK]

i think you are looking at a water leak and rust spots..

bill

I hope you are right. Resealing that back window is a relatively easy fix.

The harder part will be finding a cleaner to lighten the rust spots without damaging the headliner.

[Frank Elder]

If all else fails....Whiteout!:eek:Seriously though maybe there is a fabric prouduct to mask stains, although getting rust out of white might be on the top ten list of toughstains...maybe try whisk etc.?

[Troganin]

OXYCLEAN!

[pflaming]

Leave them there, adds character to the car. There isn't any thing wrong with 'original patina'.

[Tony Cipponeri]

Norm, Thanks for putting up the picture of Karen and I , it sure reminded me of a good time we had. I want to tell everyone on this forum that we couldn't even see your driveway from there. Tony C