Beware Of Mice inside of your air intake box

Now that cooler weather has hit, it is important to check for animals seeking warmth on your engine, wheel wells etc prior to starting your vehicles.

 

Here's a tip: Buy some peppermint oil, apply several drops to a cotton ball, and leave the cotton balls
anywhere you don't want rodents to visit. I use this every winter to keep them out of our motorcycles. My wife's Mazda 3 was a magnet for mice too. They loved to nest under the engine cover, so I soaked some cotton balls and placed them under the cover... no more mice. Works very well. Initially your garage might smell like mint, but the smell will dissipate.

 

This is true.

 

That cayenne pepper might not work if those mice are mexican mice!!!!!

 

You could always build a wall...

 

Thats how you catch the Cholo mice, right?

 

Dammit, beat me to it.

 

BRB...off to buying 10 biggest cats I can find!

 

You may be better off with 2 or 3 somewhat underfed cats. They will be motivated to get 'em all.

 

You have a valid point!

 

Mexican mice like cayenne AND tacos...
and burritos too!

 

mice got into my buddy's Tacoma while it sat at my house when we were on a 2 week road trip in my taco. They built a nest and ate the wiring. Unbelievably, the truck still started and ran. I find rat crap on the engine cover on my wires Macan but no damage so far. I taped a poison bar to it but don't know if it has done anything. Rats and mice seemed to have evolved that are too smart for traps and poison.
I had one that was getting into my washing machine and chewing up the plastic in the soap dispenser. Never could poison or trap him. Finally found where he was getting in and put steel wool in the opening. Has worked till he finds another entry point.
The Macan is garaged and we have cats that hand around all the time. The rats will probably finally get the cats.

 

Mice and rats aren't necessarily too smart, you just need to use our imagination. Of course, many generations of rodents have become resistant to Warfarin. I like my own version of the rolling log version of the mouse trap, but I use a soda can with a stripe of peanut butter around it. The water in the bottom of the bucket is because if it's dry, they can jump back out. They can't jump out of water.......

Costs nothing to make w a coat hanger wire, soda can, 5 gal bucket, one gal water and a little peanut butter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6xwUSkT1k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SIlYiiCGLI

 

Yeah wild feral cats are the hungriest.

 

Yep. Little fuckers got in and made a nest from the insulation under that plastic engine cover. Then chewed up the wires for the cam shaft position sensor. 400 bucks later.

 

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$20 The Original Rolling Log Mouse Trap Exact Trap - Perfect Kill or No Kill Trap for Mice, Rats, Other Pests and Rodents - Humane, Non Poison

https://www.amazon.com/Original-Rol...2-spons&keywords=rolling+log+mouse+trap&psc=1

 

I saw something like this about a Tundra, thought it was more BS news... can't believe someone actually had it happen. Glad to hear no major issues. Nothing a good .22 can't handle though if they are found.

 

I was visiting a ranger friend of mine in the backcountry and all night long heard splashing noises in the room- several dozen mice in one of these traps in one night!

 

Yeah but they’re such assholes. My old roommate had a feral cat inside the house. The fucking thing would come out of nowhere and start biting and scratching for no reason. Did bring in dead animals all the time though.