rev up your engines, all right the leaves are starting to fall, cold weathers
coming on, so I'm going to show you how you can keep rodents from getting into
your car and damaging electronics, now when it gets cold outside rodents, a nice
warm car what a comfy place to come in make a nest and live and it happens to
more than just people in the country, it happens to people in the city, it's
happened to me, as you can see on my old tree here my neighbor got a chainsaw and
cut all around to kill the vines, well guess what happened inside the vines
rats were living inside, here's their little nest holes, because a few years ago I was
working on a car in the driveway here it was a windy day and all of the sudden I heard a
flop and this rat landed on the ground and ran away, I guess it was in
it's nest and the wind blew it out, now it's not too cold and here in Houston very
often, rats and mice aren't looking for warm places to hide like they are up
north, but still in the winter they get in the car they get under the hood and
they start chewing on things and from what I've read of scientific research
the rodents like chewing on the wires because the 12 volts doesn't hurt them
but it does something to the endorphins in their brain and it turns them on, so
they like chewing on all the little wires and they get a little tingly
feeling inside and of course you don't want them messing with your wires especially
on the computer system is your car so you want to keep them out of there, now I
guess you get a cat throw it in there but I don't think the cat's gonna want to
be living under the hood of your car, so here's something I found years ago that
works quite good, it's an ultrasonic rodent chaser, I had a leg up on most people
because my old house there, it's crooked its pier and beam, hey there were rats there that would
get in the walls, we'd hear them in the winter, so years ago I stuck 120 volt
versions of these ultrasonic pest repellers inside various parts of the
wall and I know it works because we never hear them anymore especially in
the winter when it's cold behind our bed on the wall, we used to have to beat on the
wall in the middle of night we'd hear them squeaking and rattling around
we haven't heard that in years, but little did I know they make 12 volt
versions you can stick under your car's hood, now they emit ultrasonic sounds
that rodents can hear but we and cats and dogs can't hear, when you put in the
battery, I hooked it up to a 9-volt battery here
a little light comes on but really, how do you know it's not a scam and it
doesn't do anything well, here's how you find out, being a mechanic at one of
these ultrasonic sound detecting machines, yeah you might I think, what am I
doing with that, well it's good for finding special noises in cars when you
work on them, so I put this on, put it next to the generating machine and as you can
now hear when I put the headphones next to the microphone on a camera, it emits
horrible vacillating sounds, now the early ones only made run frequency and
it turns out that the roads got used to that one noise, but these they keep
changing the frequency and it drives them nuts and they run away and you
don't have to worry about it bothering your cats or dogs look, they sleep right
through it, they can't hear it either, you can just put it anywhere you want under
the hood, I hooked this one up to a 9-volt battery and it actually lasts quite some
time, but it's also set up that you can just get the positive the negative wire
and hook positive to the positive battery terminal and negative to the negative
battery terminal, these things use up such a small on a power hooking it up your
battery it's really gonna hurt anything in a car you drive everyday, it uses a
really tiny amount of electricity, now I've been using this one for years but I
only use it in the winter so I use this little 9-volt battery, because here in
Houston most of the time it's really hot and no rodent wants to go under a hot
engine on hot day you know, they're only gonna go there when it's cold outside
seeking shelter, now over the years I've seen customers have the fuel injection
wires chewed up, that can short out to the computer, I've seen them mess with the
alternator wiring it can do a lot of damage if a rat or a mouse gets in and
starts chewing away and I suppose since they're kind of getting high with
endorphins chewing on it getting that a little electric thrill, they probably
start chewing even harder the higher the rats get, now these little
ultrasonic repelling devices, they cover a pretty wide area so something this
size easily will do under your car but let's say you got an RV or something
you're storing and you don't want rats and mice getting in that, they also make
large ones that are for like outdoor areas and you can get one of those and
throw them in your RV, I've seen them where they run on three C batteries and
they'll run for months on that and they'll chase anything from coming
inside your RV and making a mess, now since its
mechanic Monday I'm giving away at one of these ultrasonic pest repellers, to have
a chance to win, just place a clean non offensive comment on the YouTube comments
below and a winner will be chosen randomly by computer to win a little
machine that will keep rats and mice away from your vehicle and all that
expensive electronics that they can destroy, so if you never want to miss
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