posted 11-04-2008 10:45 AM                  

Seems that mice had made themselves at home in the trunk and the soft-top & carpeting had been used for nesting, they made a real mess out of it.

The first thing I did was to check on my Orange Prowler with a hardtop I don't drive very much at all & then my Yellow Prowler also with a hardtop, to my relief all was good so I decided to pull both hardtops off & keep the softop's up for storage.

Having had antique cars for years that sat for long periods of unattended of time I also spend a small fortune on rodent control with cute little chipmunks being the worst culprits

From now on my hardtop's come off for any long term storage.

posted 11-04-2008 04:55 PM                  

Don't expect to just jump in the car and go for a spin after a few months of mothballs sitting in your car, Unless you really like the smell of mothballs. I have found it really take's quite sometime to get rid of the mothball smell, in some of my old cars even though I haven't used mothball in some years they still smell like them.

Dryer sheets work good as well, & then of course I have TRAPS OF ALL SORTS everywhere inside & outside.

I get peanuts & hot glue them to the traps or push them into the sticky traps, I also have a really neat trap that I had gotten from an estate sometime ago, it is a 110 volt's & fries them on the spot like an electric Chair (this one is in a wooden box), & a few that wind up & are good for multiple rodents at a time.

I don't really have a rodent problem & haven't caught any mice or rats in a long time, Just a lot of the cute little destructive chipmunks .