I cannot keep mice out of my engine compartment

I got dryer sheet pics somewhere…

 

My neighbor has pics of mice nesting on top of his hard wired $150 ultrasonic pest deterrent, complete with strobe lights. This thing used so much juice he had to run the truck every few days if it wasn't being used just to keep the battery up.

I've had them use a sponge, freshly soaked in pure peppermint extract (another forum favorite) as nesting material in the cabin filter box.

Folks underestimate the lowly mouse's will to survive.

 

Does anyone have pics of how those rodent deterrents are connected to the battery and mounted?
2018 Toyota Tacoma.

 

2 or 3 different brand sonic rodent repellers. One on the floor, one under the hood and one inside the cab. In my experience rodents can get used to one sonic repeller, but add 2 or 3 different frequencies and patterns overlapping each other and they don't hang around for long.

edit: I have a Victor plug in on the floor, a cheap ebay underhood that clamps to the battery and a battery operated one inside the cab.

$27 Angveirt Rodent Repellent Battery Operated Ultrasonic Mouse Repeller for Car Engines Squirrel Pest Repeller Under Hood Rat Repellent Mice Deterrent for House Garage Attic Indoor 1 Pack

https://www.amazon.com/Angveirt-Rep...cwsgHubIwwaovaeYm_trYOBCGo0aAtnKEALw_wcB&th=1

https://www.amazon.com/Victor-Heavy...x=victor+rodent+repeller,lawngarden,87&sr=1-5

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1158736556...D8aizzLNU0Knh+Jygk59nttA==|tkp:Bk9SR4Su8Y-1Yw
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I tie it to hood support rod 15 months still working no batteries needed

 

https://youtu.be/b7yGhEtsW1s?si=G0m9SApbJG7XE8g5

 

Ive never had this issue before, but today I found pieces of dead mice after he took a sht..or whatever it was. From the fur and the body parts , bones it looked like mice. On top of the air filter, not sure tf it was doing there. I must have drove off while it was there and i guess died, no idea.

I guess it said might as well sht this place before i am gone and did it

 

They don't like the smell of lavender. You can try a little lavender fabuloso in a spray bottle diluted with water and spray in the engine bay, on the ground under or maybe soak straight fabuloso on a rag and wedge it in there somewhere. I was getting them in my shed and don't see them any more. Just a little bit mixed in water has a pretty strong smell.

 

On August 21 1882, a man by the name of Matthias Alexander Williams from San Saba County, Texas filed a United States patent No.269,766. for a mousetrap incorporating a handgun, "by which animals which burrow in the ground can be destroyed".[1]


Drawing from US Patent 269766, "Animal trap"
The patent application suggests that the device might also be used to kill or injure "any person or thing" that makes the fatal decision to open the door or window that it is placed by.

The patent application was approved on December 26 of 1882 and Matthias Alexander Williams said "The object of my invention is to provide a means by which animals who burrow in the ground can be destroyed, and which the trap will give an alarm each time that it goes off, so that it can be reset."

Life was so much simpler back then

 

Sorry to bump this thread—but my cousin keeps pushing me to try Box-Kat. Says it’s a kind of mouse wall you lay around the truck.

Claims he hasn’t had a single issue since setting it up 2 years ago. I’m still skeptical, but honestly getting tired of cleaning out nests every few weeks.

Anyone here actually used one?