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How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by CarMecx(m): 11:59pm On Aug 22, 2018 |
Rats they are omnivorous like all rodents, need to chew. Chew anything they can find to keep their incisors from growing through their jaws, but they find the wiring of cars particularly delicious chewing which translate into expensive repairs. If by chance you happen to have some food stashed away in your car, that’s a bonanza for the rats. A car provides for plenty of chewing stuff like Plastic, carpet, seat fabric, anything. I have even seen a rat chew through the fuel line of a car. The worst part is when a live rat running around and chewing through stuff in your car die. A dead rat in the AC system of a car with smell that is stomach-churning and the car had to be aired out thoroughly even after a disinfectant wash for a couple of days. Such is the menace of rats. Another person had his entire instrument panel go dead because of rats chewing through a critical set of wires that resulted in an expensive wiring harness replacement. Here are some 7 tips to help prevent the rats’ nastiness and costly repairs. Are They in Your Car? 1. Leave Your Car Bonnet Open: Rats love dark place to nest. This idea may help discourage them but may not be the ultimate solution, do this if you have a secure parking garage in your house. 2. Check under The Bonnet: Rats love the engine bay especially the air filter, cold air intake, air vents and the bonnet. This is also where most of the delicious wiring that they we be chewing up is located, ensure that the air filters and hoses are free of things rats may have stored. It would even be better to have your car professionally steam wash cleaned to ensure all rats’ evidence is removed. 3. Thoroughly Clean Your Car: Remove used food plates, left over junks wrap from the car. 4. Use Rat Trap: Place rat trap on the front, back and top of the tire tread of your front two tires, bait them with oily food and replace the bait once a week only set these trap anytime the car is parked using the old fashioned spring snap rats trap. Don’t use rat poison it attract more rats also to avoid its rotting smell. 5. Clean your Parking Area: Always clean your parking area, keep the area free of garbage that rats are likely to pickup and store in your car. 6. Don’t Let Car Sit Unused: Drive it once in a while to discourage rats from doing mechanical or electrical work. 7. Finally get a cat, but only if you can deal with a cat keeping a cat as a pet. 8 Likes
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Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by Michael8026: 12:03am On Aug 23, 2018 |
nice 1 Like |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by GAZZUZZ(m): 1:13am On Aug 23, 2018 |
summary. Leave Bonnet open Use a rat trap employ a Cat. 58 Likes |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by weyreypey: 6:28am On Aug 23, 2018 |
Fumigate. 3 Likes |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by mofeoluwadassah: 7:23am On Aug 23, 2018 |
Incredible |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by iamTP: 7:24am On Aug 23, 2018 |
Too much talk Couldn't it have been shortened? 1 Like |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by pablobellins(m): 7:25am On Aug 23, 2018 |
Blah blah blah. Dont own a chewable car 2 Likes |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by Sharpshooota: 7:26am On Aug 23, 2018 |
Get a Nairaland zombie ... If they are not online chanting sai barber They are offline eating rats 11 Likes |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by FroshD: 7:29am On Aug 23, 2018 |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by YorubaAssasin: 7:31am On Aug 23, 2018 |
Rat no go chop ni? |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by bigfat05: 7:32am On Aug 23, 2018 |
nice one |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by jaxxy(m): 7:38am On Aug 23, 2018 |
Sm1 said put sm camphor in the engine bay. The smell wud drive them away bt haven’t tried it yet. |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by Speedo17(m): 7:39am On Aug 23, 2018 |
For me I just poison them by applying some indosid capsules on bread crumbs placed in the car. Sometimes it could be difficult locating the dead rat |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by Centcanada: 7:41am On Aug 23, 2018 |
Okey? |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by OboOlora(f): 7:45am On Aug 23, 2018 |
Leave ur bonnets open in Lagos? I pity u if ur neighbor is a Ladipo Ibo boy , e go turn ur car to casket with only AC knob remaining 19 Likes
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Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by Exponental(m): 7:56am On Aug 23, 2018 |
Rats.... those stubborn creatures. Since I saw a rat bring out bait professionally out of a trap as at 1999, I knew the millennium rats will be worse. Op, if the rat is interested, it will get there. They think like humans except for what is called 'mistakes'. 3 Likes |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by 9jaBloke: 7:57am On Aug 23, 2018 |
I learnt that putting charcoal inside the bonnet wards them off. 1 Like |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by nakoks(m): 8:01am On Aug 23, 2018 |
9jaBloke: Rats cant stand the smell of charcoal.Simplest and best solution. 5 Likes |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by jericco1(m): 8:02am On Aug 23, 2018 |
yet to get my first car tho... 1 Like |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by Unlimited22: 8:03am On Aug 23, 2018 |
These are the kinds of things that should be on FP. But no, it's either Cee-C clapping back or sultry photos. Kudos, OP. |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by Wiseandtrue(f): 8:08am On Aug 23, 2018 |
Sharpshooota:they usually gather at this joint 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by mcstan18(m): 8:39am On Aug 23, 2018 |
The rodent in the picture looks dead |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by lacoach: 8:47am On Aug 23, 2018 |
I dealt with them decisively 4 Likes
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Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by dPriv: 9:30am On Aug 23, 2018 |
Cat works wonders on Rat. Check signature for this LENOVO LAPTOP in ILORIN . |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by OyinO: 9:51am On Aug 23, 2018 |
Cat is the best solution. One single cry of mmiaaaaon, sends all rats at 50 metres radius packing. 4 Likes |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by banio: 10:23am On Aug 23, 2018 |
weyreypey: That's what I do. Just use e-de-kill mosquito well well and all rats will run away. |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by globalresource: 10:23am On Aug 23, 2018 |
you cannot believe rat ate gum trap without catching the rat. i fear anything wey dey naija |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by weyreypey: 10:23am On Aug 23, 2018 |
OyinO:Fumigate in the dark night like 11 PM 1 Like |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by manshoro: 10:55am On Aug 23, 2018 |
Put canfur in strategic areas of your car and you will never see rats again |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by Xkalaban(m): 10:56am On Aug 23, 2018 |
Wiseandtrue: Omo see meme o @Op all this open bonnet, clean car thoroughly and getting a cat no go work as easily said so far 9ja is concerned. Bad things can happen to ur car very sharperly. The best way to do it is to buy a packet of cigarettes, open the contents, mix am well with better ground pepper wey dey hot weller, now spread am all over ur engine. Especially in places where them shit full. Na confam tear gas be that to those rats I tell u 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by MobilityExpress: 11:05am On Aug 23, 2018 |
Buy kill-N-dry rat poison, throw like 5 in different areas under your bonnet. By the time like 4 rats eat it and dies, the rat council will warn the entire rat community in your street to avoid your car like Ebola 1 Like |
Re: How To Keep Rats Away From Eating Your Car Wires by InvertedHammer: 12:06pm On Aug 23, 2018 |
/ Leave your bonnet open? You will drive away rats but invite other kinds of rats. One group chew wires while the other make parts disappear. / 2 Likes |
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