Rodent/mice in my engine bay, help
 

so i been noticing mice poops in my engine bay

how can i get rid of it or scare them away ?



i heard WD-40 or Cayenne pepper works? or even black pepper?

you can put mothballs in your engine bay, the smell will keep them away

can get it from Rona
http://rona.ca/img/product/full/0263042.jpg

I made a thread about this a year ago!

I tried alot of things and did alot of research, basically, nothing really worked. everything people suggest including moth balls DO NOT WORK. laundry sheets DO NOT WORK.

i used peppermint oil soaked into cotton pads. but it still didnt get rid of them. they simply avoided the pads, but went into other areas of the engine bay. so... that KINDA worked.

BEST WAY is to avoid parking there for a while. I hear mice are very memory based, and are used to your car being in that same area. park somewhere else for a week or more, and CLEAN OUT the poop. they are also very "smell" based. their own poop and other mice smells left in your car will just keep attracting them.

also make sure, assuming you're parked outside near bushes etc, is to clear the bushes of any trails of food if there are any. my dad threw onions outside in the bushes near my car. the mice went for the onions, and brought a bunch into my engine bay

i hear cat pee and litter is also a good way, but i dont own pets, and not too willing to put litter or urine on my driveway LOL.

good luck!

EDIT:
oh, and if you're wondering. I still park there now, and no problems with mice this winter. last winter is when this happened, i did what i said above, and cleaned everything out. this whole year no problems anymore!

i read online that cayenne pepper works, so i went to safeway and spread whole bunch of them on my intake manifold and valve cover since tats where they were shitting on etc. Fuck

we have those green poison shit, they brought that shit to eat in my engine bay
pissing me off


also noticed some in my dads car


after spraying my cayenne pepper, i notice my cf hood has three vents! Which means water will go in, and my cayenne pepper powder will be washed out

lol

like PuYang said, lot of the shit said online works and doesnt, i tried laundry sheets and moth balls, they literally took a shit on the fckin laundry sheets so that didnt work..
they were inside my engine bay, inside on my new Sparcos, and worst of all made a nest right in my interior cabin filter area under the glove compartment..

only thing that did work was the most common sense thing, which was cleaning everything out carefully disinfecting it with spray, and placing mouse traps around the car. But I think cleaning did the trick since they never came back and mouse traps never caught anything. Also if you use mouse traps, use peanut butter instead of cheese.

cleaning it all out the poop, the little nests they make is basically like destroying their house and they will have nowhere to come back too, this is the only thing that worked for me.

I found rat shit under the hood in one of my cars during this cold winter.This is what I did,I got one of those sticky pads for mice/rats,put some peanut butter in the center of the pad,placed the pad right underneath the engine and not drive the car for a few days,sure enough on the 4 day I caught a huge rat.

Since you most likely drive your car daily,you should put one of those pads under your car when you leave the car for the night,then remove it when you drive it the following day,keep repaeting till you catch one of them.

Like me and G-spec said, cleaning it out completely and removing their home is the best fix. Consider parking your car somewhere else for a week, (and clean it of course). This will force them to find a new home (hopefully somewhere else), and not bother coming back to your car when you park back to the original spot. Worked for me!

I live on acreage and had a mice problem a few years ago. All did was prop my hood up about a foot at night. When they realized a cat could get at them now, they stayed away from my car and haven't been back.

We had a van come in a month ago with rat chewed wires under the hood. There was also green stuff melted all over the engine area. That stuff we think is rat bait/poison. It made a big mess and not so sure if that stuff was a good idea. Although it is poison, it is still bait and will attract them.
I'm not sure what would really work to deter them from coming back but there's some good idea's in this thread. Common sense, keeping is clean of poop under the hood with engine shampoo and pressure washing and i like the idea from 911fan of propping the hood up over night.
This rodent problem seems to happen more so during the colder months.
A while ago, a car came in for an engine light on, checked it out and said no signal from cam sensor or something like that. Opened the hood and noticed rat crap and chewed wires all around. I moved in for a closer look when i hear this rustling noise to my right. I step back take 2 steps to my right, point my flashlight under the air intake into a pile of leaves and see a pair of eyes looking at me, looking at him. We stare each other down for a minute as i wondered what to do. A few other guys come over and we all stare for a minute when one of us starts poking at him. He jumps out and now we have a rat running around the shop and the witch hunt was on. We eventually caught him and had to put the poor guy down. Fun times

I've found the sticky pads aren't too effective if you're dealing with rats. I had a few of the laid out in my garage and I would see them the next day halfway across the garage. (they had gotten trapped in them but were so big they could drag the sheets around and get loose).

Poisons are alright if you don't have pets around. The only issue I have with poison is that it means you'll have to find the dead rat/mouse after it's eaten the poison. Most likely you'll smell it before you find it and I can tell you in the middle of summer, it's not a good smell!

I've used these before. More sensitive than the old fashioned rat traps.

Like others have said, clean the rat poop and try to seal any potential entry points. Keep potential food sources (compost boxes, grass seed) away from the garage doors. Then just bait some traps and catch those suckers. Nothing scares away mice/rats like the smell of death.

i had this problem as well, at night when you park just bear spray ur engine bay, sounds ridiculous but it works

One of my car suffered this problem. The rat built a bed using leaves found around the garage. The leaf-bed was on the battery inside the engine bay. Lots of rat shit everywhere too. When you turn on warm air, omfg it stank up the car.

All those online tips don't work. I bought a Victor rat snap trap. Put in some gouda cheese. Left it outside beside the car for 3 nights and landed a sweet victory. No more rats.

I felt my car bog under acceleration, i popped the hood and found a mouse/rat built a nest of leaves and towels near my throttle cable. well that explains the bogging. I cleared out the nest and couple days later, I found another smaller nest being built in the same area.

Im gonna fucking kill this POS.

where can i buy mouse traps? Canadian Tire?

dollar stores and Canadian tire

catch one, kill it, and hang it inside the engine bay. It's about sending a message.

:troll:

should he burn a cross too

this happens to my FX35 when I park it in the carport... I heard that infinitis all have that problem due to how the bottom plate is designed... ask one of the mechanics at the dealership they say this happens quite often.. with FX and G35s etc

I laid out the traps yesterday night in my car park, I parked my car on the street.

Didnt catch the little bastard. Maybe it realized my car isnt where it normally is so it left.

Engine shampoo plus hose off your parking area. Set traps nearby.

The mice obviously forage for food then come back into your engine bay.

Once in a while I find a surprise waiting for me when I lift up a car.

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/a...2AC9E32AA9.jpg

bringing this back from the dead. i'm now having this problem after a old home in my neighborhood was torn down and now there are mice everywhere :(

mothballs do not work. heat from the engine bay dissolves them.

laundry sheets do work, but they fade after about 2 weeks and the mice come back and you have to keep changing them.

it has to be a certain kind of pure peppermint oil that works, but i haven't been able to find it in stores. it's also over $9 just for a few mL and is barely enough to soak up a few cotton balls.

unfortunately i park outdoors so it's difficult for me to relocate because spaces are limited.

the food comment is correct. the mice are bringing in fruit and nuts leftover from the backyard of another home nearby.

it has been suggested to me by others to soak the ground around the car with ammonia, especially around the wheels because that is how they climb up. others say i should use some sort of ultrasonic device...

help?

I would use rat/mouse traps and put them underneath the car beside all 4 tires for a couple of days and try washing your engine bay so the smell doesn't attract them

i have to wash the engine bay at least 1-2 times a week because of all the mouse crap all over the place. when you turn the heater on you can smell it :(

i've tried the mouse trap thing but because i'm parked outdoors on the street i keep forgetting to pick them up when i leave for work every morning... argh.