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.

nice

Fumigate.

Incredible

Too much talk

Couldn't it have been shortened?

Blah blah blah. Dont own a chewable car

Get a Nairaland zombie ...

If they are not online chanting sai barber

They are offline eating rats

Rat no go chop ni?

nice one

Sm1 said put sm camphor in the engine bay. The smell wud drive them away bt haven’t tried it yet.

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

Okey?

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

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'.

I learnt that putting charcoal inside the bonnet wards them off.

9jaBloke:
I learnt that putting charcoal inside the bonnet wards them off.

Rats cant stand the smell of charcoal.Simplest and best solution.

yet to get my first car tho...

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.

Sharpshooota:
Get a Nairaland zombie ...

If they are not online chanting sai barber

They are offline eating rats

they usually gather at this joint

I dealt with them decisively

Cat works wonders on Rat.





Check signature for this LENOVO LAPTOP in ILORIN .

Cat is the best solution. One single cry of mmiaaaaon, sends all rats at 50 metres radius packing.

weyreypey:
Fumigate.

That's what I do. Just use e-de-kill mosquito well well and all rats will run away.

you cannot believe rat ate gum trap without catching the rat. i fear anything wey dey naija

OyinO:
Cat is the best solution. One single cry of mmiaaaaon, sends all rats at 50 metres radius packing.

Fumigate in the dark night like 11 PM

Put canfur in strategic areas of your car and you will never see rats again

Wiseandtrue:

they usually gather at this joint

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

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

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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.

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