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 another one of my new car repair videos,
remember to ring that Bell!
