How To Protect Cars from Rats

Oh its a real brutality to rats, as well as to cat,what will they eat

Uh, don't feed it to rats ?

we use moth balls in the states to get rid of mice maybe

they will work

Buy some rat poison and sprinkle it around your car while it is parked.

Keep the car with me. I will keep it in use, and also protect it from the rats.

Pepper spray.

coat the underside once a month or so.

Wear goggles and a mask.

Interesting problem. The mothballs for mice, I hadn't heard of.

I haven't had this problem.

Is the car parked inside a garage?

Del the cat recently was impressed that one of his cats had brought home a rat it had caught, and was in the process of finishing off.

It is a sign of love for a cat to bring home what it kills.

Alastair, our killer cat demonstrates his love for us by bringing in dead rabbits, though sometimes all he leaves are feet and the liver.

He did adopt one rabbit as a pet, that hid behind the dryer and ate some phone cords, so I know how irritating such events can be.

Cats get on well with possums. I don't know why.

Anyway you could buy a chain motor and sling wrap your car and lift it into the air in the garage when you are gone, so it is out of reach of the rats.

That solution would depend some on the building strength of the building you park the car in.

Then you might park the car in a inflatable pool, of great enough depth, to drown the rats, or better yet drown and poison them, though you may have some unpleasant odors infused into the car when you return to a car sitting in a pool of dead rats.

Possibly you might consider turning the car into a taxicab and getting some profit from it while you are gone?

Interesting problem. Hope to hear how it is solved.

In fact (Del the) cat may have best solution for the problem.

Where are you Del?

spray the ground around your car with this, or this. the first one is supposed to be good for 2 to 3 months.

with this, or this. the

First this says that

Rat A-Way rodent repellent is effective in reducing the number of rodents entering a treated area.

And

Cannot be shipped to AK, CA, DC, HI, ID, MT, NV, NY.

One should know why it can not be shipped in those many provinces? Any hazard reasons!!

vendor says the product is natural and won't even harm the rodents. it's supposed to smell like the rodents' mortal enemies (animals in the canine species). I don't think the issue is health hazard, or it would not get manufacturing approval. the first one contains napthalene and sulfur. please see the material safety data sheet of the second product. _{(both contain chemicals that can be used as an ingredient for IED!).}

perhaps members from the states would know the exact reason(s). legislators have their own quirks and fancies that escapes engineers sometimes. :D

Things can't be shipped to NY because the government bureaucrats want to make sure they get their kickbacks when issuing licenses to their friends and relatives.

The mothballs (naptha) will work but don't leave that in contact with paint or wiring or anything of that nature. Just put it on the ground under the car. The commercial repellants are probably pretty good but might be more expensive.

Cats are always good.

Is the car parked somewhere where no one else will touch it: what about connecting the bodywork to live mains: because the car is insulated by its tyres it will not use any power (except when it's frying rats).

WARNING DON'T FORGET TO SWITCH IT OFF

I don't know what the law is like in India. In the UK and the US you would probably get prosecuted if you inadvertently electrocuted a thief.

You could probably design other floor based "electric fences" by gluing parallel strips of aluminium foil to polyurethane sheeting.

Only a voltage that is high enough to overcome the resistivity of dry ground would work, but then it will cause a lot of cracks to your tires, EVEN if they're brand new. Believe me I've done it before.

take care of car by put flypaper around tyres. rats will stick also.

Naw, just hire this little fella, and he'll watch out for your property...

Wow ! You've got a killer pussy. Grrr !!!

I too use my Opel Astra Advantage quite sparingly and have faced similar damages by rats. The problem got eliminated quite simply by:

a) using a rat trap with a cut piece of partly rotten tomato as bait and

b) reorienting the car- instead of the usual nosing the vehicle into the garage, backing into the garage- dis-orienting and confounding the rat(s).

Try it - it has worked very effectively for the past 4 months!!

I think it was your rat trap that did the trick, and not your reorientation. this is because rats locate food by scent and sight, not by thinking. <LOL>

the downside about rat traps is that you've got to rinse the rat trap clean after every catch, especially if there's rat blood in it, as the others will simply evade your trap after smelling rat blood.

I've stopped using rat traps and only changing the orientation every week and it has done away with the problem for the past 3 months. So I guess rats do think partly after all!!

I had a rat problem this spring, mostly coming into the garage and nesting.

I trapped vigorously for 3 weeks. I thought the problem was gone.

Now they are back, three months later.

Perhaps we are in a life cycle, food availability situation.

Sell the car; 2-3-times-use-per-year is not enough to justify the cost of owning—much less, the cost of repairing. Rent a car when and as needed—on those 2-3 occasions. Save lotsa money. Find peace of mind.

Let the rats find food/shelter elsewhere.

In other words: now is alway the best time to cut losses, even if you have to eat some. Sad to say, there is probably not other reasonably priced solution,