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I see postings warning of mice eating car wires. I suggest that you leave a cheese loaded mouse trap under your cars over the winter period. I didn't think there would be mice in my garage but I was wrong. I came to put on my wellingtons for snow clearing this winter and 5 mice jumped out of them and scattered into 'god knows where ' inside my garage,.. Within 24 hours, all were captured. I felt sorry for the little critters.
Better this than having to rewire part of your car after a winter parking. I never leave my car longer than about 3 days before driving it but if I did, I would leave a mouse trap loaded with blue cheese under the car on the garage floor. The little blighters can smell that stuff from 3 blocks away lol.
We had rats in our crawl space. They chewed their way through the wall and into the garage. The exterminator laughed at my electric traps from Home Depot but was shocked (ha ha) when I told him that I was catching 4 a day. They work by shocking the rat once and because rats can restart their heart, it shocks them again until they're well and truly exterminated. I found that peanut butter and Bologna worked well as bait.
The only improve would be if the electric traps looked like Daleks!
I'd also add putting a cover of some kind over the exhaust and air intake - just in case. At the family small engine store we see all kinds of nests in all kinds of places on lawnmowers and I'm not sure furry critters care if it's a car or lawnmower or whatever.
When I walked to work years ago my Jeep was left for a few weeks in the spring on the street. A squirrel decided that under the hood would be a great place to build a nest. The first place they tried was where my large power line for the sound system is, and they got a pretty good shock. The next place was right on top of my main harness, or one of the main harnesses. Found out about it when the car turned over and wouldn't start, and still didn't start after a trip to the gas station. In a way I'm very lucky they didn't build one over the intake and I started it, but either way it was a few hours of scratching my head and a little bit of time putting the wires together and cleaning it out.
