Rodent squatters setting up camp under my hood

[PB]

Cats have gotten old, fat and lazy. Rodents pissing and shitting all over my car engine, possibly more serious damage (engine light just came on). Unable to nuke from orbit due to cranky neighbors who do not tolerate beheading.

Any secret voodoo for sending the varmints packing?

Car's in an open carport (no closed garage available) so novichok's out.

[El Chupacabra]

I used to have mice in the garage stealing dog kibble and nesting under the hood. Made quite a mess with nests. Now I put a sandwich Ziploc bag with old fashioned mothballs under the engine compartment of each car, with a couple holes poked in the Ziploc, and it seems to have worked to deter them.

For the old truck that is parked outside, uncovered, I do the same thing with the ziplock but zip tie the ziplock in the engine compartment.

[Hopeless Sinner]

Peppermint oil.

[John_B]

5 gallon bucket with a piece of coat hanger through an empty beer can smeared with peanut butter assuming it's warm enough that it's not freezing solid. If it's going to freeze then buy either a cheapo aquarium heater or a small stock tank heater.

Edit: The perk of this is that when your idiot dog eats all of the bait it's only peanut butter instead of d-CON or radiator fluid.

[m2711c]

they love the sweet taste o radiator fluids... leave a tuna can half full under there and let them fuckers lap that shit up. quick and easy.


fact.

[halliday]

they love the sweet taste o radiator fluids... leave a tuna can half full under there and let them fuckers lap that shit up. quick and easy.


fact.

BAM!

[Truckee Joe]

Scented dryer sheets seem to keep them away.

[detrusor]

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Under-Hoo...d-Ve/621053961

Is what I use when the van sits for raft shuttles. Fuckers ate a bunch of wiring at a take out. No
Problem since.

[yeahman]

Scented dryer sheets seem to keep them away.

I've used those successfully in the past. Need to start again because some critter (rabbit I think) has chewed my daughter's wiper fluid hose in half twice now.

[PB]

they love the sweet taste o radiator fluids... leave a tuna can half full under there and let them fuckers lap that shit up. quick and easy.


fact.

Yeah .... no. Other critters also relish ethylene glycol; no by-catch freebies.

[PB]

Most of these suggestions seem ..... fringy.

Imma go with hood up and traps laid when parked in carport.

[frorider]

In one of the threads identical to this one, I think I mentioned that some rodents took the dryer sheets and made a nice comfy nest with them on top of the intake manifold. So yeah that solution ain’t foolproof.

[nickwm21]

Cayenne. You can get it in like a gallon jug at a restaurant supply store.


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[Buster Highmen]

Augmented with non cooking peppermint extract (the cooking stuff has sugar, get the extract at a health food store)

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Moth balls. Pack rats chewed the shit out of my trucks injector harness, and were setting up a pretty sweet pad under the hood, with kitchen on one side and bedroom on the other. They went away as soon as I stashed the moth balls around the engine compartment.

[PB]

Moth balls seems legit - just pack them own spots where they won't fall out? Any noticeable mothball smell inside?

[SoVT Joey]

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those are legit and work really well. I got some of them and then more essential oils and just reoil them.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Moth balls seems legit - just pack them own spots where they won't fall out? Any noticeable mothball smell inside?

Plenty of nooks and crannies to place them, never smelled anything inside the cabin in my truck or in the wife's grocery getter.

[El Chupacabra]

Moth balls seems legit - just pack them own spots where they won't fall out? Any noticeable mothball smell inside?

No smell inside. Read my post #2 - use ziplocs.

[Hood26]

I have been using the peppermint oil based engine spray. Some rodent bastards got after my wiring about 6 years ago and no further damage since. I should have been using it all along.

[hooked]

I guess it would depend on the model of your ride. Plenty of clearance under the hood of my Ram to snap necks but not so much with my Audi. Went 3 for 3 last week while the truck sat for a couple days. Since all the traps were cleaned of peanut butter, there's got to be at least one more fucker that needs to go. Also, tethering these helps with retrieval.