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Originally Posted by Barabus
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The PLAN- Going to add peppermint oil to 2 magnetic GuardFather cans in the. engine compartment; Honda anti rodent tape on all accessible wires. Unfortunately, the injector wires under the intake are not accessible, so I plan to spay a small amount of pepper spray on these. I plan to add peppermint oil about every 2-3month and certainly before going camping. As to the pepper spray, not sure yet but it would also need to be reapplied.
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Maybe hold off on the pepper spray. I've heard that rats either can't taste it or actually like it and it doesn't work for this purpose.
As someone else pointed out, it may require something more along the lines of a petroleum based product to make them really stay away. Though purposely coating your wires with oil isn't the kind of thing you would think you would want to be doing outside of the rodent problem.
I'm not actually offering this as advice because I have no experience with it, but using like a can of spray chain lube to spray the wires while holding a shop rag behind them to keep it from getting on everything might be worth trying.
That will of course collect dust and be grimy, but that's the very thing likely to put them off.
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