Ok so I drop my car off yesterday to the Ford service center to have the regular maintenance done, fix two of my curb rash rims and get it detailed. The service manager calls me today and says they found food and pieces of rats and it's droppings inside of my engine. I give him the yeah ok buddy reply he then says no I'm serious and that I'm lucky that it didn't chew any of the wires or components inside the engine bay. He also said it was a common thing. I've never heard it before. His advise was to put moth ***** in a sock and hang them in the engine. So how many of you guys /girls have heard this b4 and does that moth thing really work?

 

Glad I don't live in NYC!!!! Now I know what's meant when folks say "bigger than a New York Rat".

My dad used to use moth ***** around the shrubs to keep the local dogs and cats from peeing or crapping around them. That worked, so I guess rats will not like them either.

What about rat poison? I'd rather kill them then chase them away.

 

We had some sort of rodent trash the underhood NVH deadening stuff on a Malibu and a practically brand new Camaro SS about a month ago at work. The **** things can make a big mess in a hurry.

 

You can also check with your local hardware store for a rodent spray. You can spray it around the car perimeter, as a first line of defense. The moth ***** may work. Try googling it. This can be a disaster if they chew through the electrics or brake lines.

Here is a link to a story in the NY Times that I just found. The end of the article talks about repellents. Hope this is helpful.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/29/nyregion/29rats.html

 

If your talking about the rats in the city i dont think moth ***** are gonna help. You may need a lion though, those things are ferocious.

 

Ny rats are beasts

 

Holy hell! ^^^

 

Just one more reason not to live in that hell hole.

 

A rat who prefers the taste of GM? Maybe it's like Life Cereal to them of something? "Mikey likes it!!!" :shrug:

 

Yikes!!! A couple of those can be hitched to the front and could pull your car to work!

 

A squirrel got into my bosses Audi a few years ago and caused $4k in damage.. rats are worse

 

My friend had to take his Mustang to the mech because a cat got caught up in his drive shaft. Animals can and do go to warm dry spots..

 

heard of it before. its real.

 

Glad thats a dead one.. Those things in the city are fearless they will come after you!!!

 

Thanks for the link to the article, very good read.


This thread is pure comedy. lmao

 

Being a former NYer and having had lots of classic cars that got stored all winter.. mothballs in socks do indeed work to keep rodents out of the car.

 

Thanks buddy. I was convinced it would work after everything I read, how about the smell from the moth ***** seeping into the cabin? Was it really noticeable?

 

Yea i had the same thing with my 2005 mustang my car was always smelling like a grill chicken i was lie wtf is up with this so when i was installing supercharger on it we found like 10 chicken leg bones under it and i couldnt believe it the car was parked outside close to the building where i live sooo long story short i sold the car 3 months later couse every time i was driving it i keep smelling that and the chicken bones picture was stock in my head it was nasty ....

 

That could be an issue.

I'd suggest placing a few cats around the car, but those rats would most likely eat the cats. Plus they crawl on top of the cars and sleep. When I had to park at an apartment complex a few years back, I got annoyed at coming out in the morning and seeing cat paw prints on my windshield, roof, and hood.

 

that sucks man. my dad had a '68 camaro rs 327, meaning a small engine for a large bay, so the fan shroud was really long. because it was nice and warm after driving home the family cat used to crawl up and actually sleep in the fan shroud. you know, until it got all of its limbs dislocated by the fan...