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No to poison. You then have dead mice to find and the stink to go with them.
Yes to traps. Use bait-less unless you already have an incursion to control. These are especially effective if you can check them throughout the storage cycle to replenish. Place them in and around the vehicle on a solid surface to prevent staining when you score. Cardboard works great.
Yes to bounce sheets. Place them everywhere. Leave glove box open and clear but for one sheet as it is the pent house suite.
No to moth balls. I've seen chew marks on moth balls... they quickly lose their deterrent strength and are nauseating as wayner points out. Once they don't deter they are food. Cloves work better and are easy on the nostrils. Tractor supply sells all natural rodent repellent bags with cloves/peppermint inside.
Yes to pull battery and crack windows. Yes to stabilizer and full tank. If the storage is likely to be extended then there are also fogger options to fog the engine in. The fog is available from marine and snowmobile shops and is an aerosol oil for the engine to ingest. Most manufacturers sell their own version; I use Polaris. Follow instructions on the can which generally are to open throttle butterflies enough to clear and spray evenly into all cylinders until engine bogs and then shut off ignition. It makes for a bit of smoke come wake up time but keeps rings from sticking and preserves the combustion surfaces/valves and seats etc. If you store in a dry climate then fogging is probably overkill. Yes to air up tires. Better if you can remove wheels and rest vehicle on jack stands under the suspension.
Pull the floor mats, leave a wake up list on the dash, cover entire vehicle.
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“Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment to previous values. In motorcycle maintenance, you MUST rediscover what you do as you go. Rigid values makes this impossible.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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