12-13-2019, 10:16 PM
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I live out in the country, our house has a huge hay field in our backyard and we have a bunch of field mice. I seen one in my engine bay before, I used peppermint oil and I don’t think it’s working. No garage we just have a carport. Anyone know how to get mice out of the engine bay?
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12-13-2019, 10:32 PM
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I have a similar problem with my trucks that sit oustside. What I do is I just set mouse traps on top of the engine with penut butter. It seems to have made them stop coming even though there are definitely mice around still.
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12-13-2019, 11:22 PM
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You can try a few jars with a rag soaked in ammonia that will help repel them. If not yeah a bunch of mouse traps baited with peanut butter. For anymore tips look up Shaun Woods on youtube he is a rodent trapping genius! Good luck with everything.
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12-14-2019, 01:33 AM
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Leave the hood open: rodents love dark places. I keep my truck's hood open when not driven especially during the day time.
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12-14-2019, 01:45 AM
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I have a friend who parked his Trans Am for 30 years. Always kept mothballs around the engine bay. When we pulled the car out after all those years nothing was chewed. Cheap enough to try.
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12-14-2019, 07:39 AM
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Place cat in engine bay. Do not feed cat. Problem solved
Moth balls will work too.
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12-14-2019, 07:50 AM
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The problem with mothballs is that it smells like mothballs. The former owner of my tacoma kept mothballs in the engine bay, and yes there were no mice in the truck. But after spending months of work and thousands of dollars making the truck look, drive and sound badass,it still smelled like a 80 year old spinster
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12-14-2019, 09:05 AM
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I toss a bag of mothballs on the ground Under the engine as well as using weekly mint oil. Can't do a cat, the coyotes like to snack on them and I'd go broke trying to replace all the traps that go missing.
Mothballs and mint oil have stopped the problem (I have 4 vehicles to deal with).
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12-14-2019, 09:38 AM
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I live on farms and grew up on a dead end road in the woods. The farms have some cats around and they keep my vehicles here clean. I store vehicles were I grew up.
I currently use Irish spring soap bars cut in quarters and bounty dryer sheet to keep the mice, squirrels, chipmunks out of my vehicles.
It also helps to move them around some too.
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12-14-2019, 10:53 AM
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I live on farms and grew up on a dead end road in the woods. The farms have some cats around and they keep my vehicles here clean. I store vehicles were I grew up.
I currently use Irish spring soap bars cut in quarters and bounty dryer sheet to keep the mice, squirrels, chipmunks out of my vehicles.
It also helps to move them around some too.
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12-14-2019, 11:42 AM
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Wow thanks for all the reply guys, only thing about putting anything like traps and moth balls in the engine bay is that it’ll be annoying every time I drive I’ll have to take it out and set em back up again. I like the idea of putting a bag of moth balls under the truck. I’ll just leave them in a bucket maybe and just park my truck over them, hopefully that’ll work.
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12-14-2019, 02:03 PM
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Here is a thread I started a while back showing my mice battle. My issue has been mice visiting when camping and dancing a jig in the engine bay. They still periodically do but at least they can't get in to the air box or cabin now.
No more mice!
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I use Irish Springs bar soap. One under a seat year round, and one in engine compartment in warm weather. Works well and does not have the moth ball smell. But we also have 2 male cats who spend most of their time outside in warm weather.
But even with those two guys...I still had an occasional mouse problem...until I started Irish Springs .
By this time of year. If a mouse has not found a good inside home ( for them) they are frozen so then there is no issues with cars etc.
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I use Irish Springs bar soap. One under a seat year round, and one in engine compartment in warm weather. Works well and does not have the moth ball smell. But we also have 2 male cats who spend most of their time outside in warm weather.
But even with those two guys...I still had an occasional mouse problem...until I started Irish Springs .
By this time of year. If a mouse has not found a good inside home ( for them) they are frozen so then there is no issues with cars etc.
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How often You changing yours? I will let it go until a dont smell it anymore. The same with the bounty dryer sheets.
I have no cats in one location. So I am strictly relying on these 2 products to do their job.
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12-14-2019, 06:40 PM
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Just put the traps near/under the car. They don't have to be in the engine bay. They will find it.
You don't want them IN the car because you will attract them TO the car and they will gnaw through things to get at traps in the car.
Also, traps are the only proven solution. Anything chemical that harms/repels mice, harms/repels humans.
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