Moth balls: A buddy put them in his Mustang for winter storage. A family of mice ate the mothballs (which is poisonous to them) and died inside very hard to find crevices. The mechanic pulled out several dead mice but the smell never went away. Beware.

I tried peppermint oil and cayenne oil to no avail. Finally got a cheap jar of ground cayenne powder, sprinkled that around under the hood and they haven't been back.

have car manufacturers ever considered not using rat bait for wire coating.

Cars are designed by companies who don't care if rodents get in because it is not their problem. I had a Hummer H3 that was designed as a squirrel apartment complex with spacious penthouse suites between the inner and outer fenders. But the worst problem is the air filter boxes. Only a few cents of wire mesh would have prevented the squirrel from building a nest in the air box and dying when it got too big to get out. I had to put on a respirator and pour out the liquid squirrel.

Rodents love hot peppers. I lost my entire crop of Jalepenos, Vietnamese, and mild peppers to rats. I put my Ring camera out there and watched as they grabbed a pepper and came up to the camera as if to say, "What?! You got a problem?"

We live out in the country. Chipmunks were attracted by bird seed from the feeders close to the back door & garage doors. They built nests under the hood of my wife's Chrysler Pacifica. Damage came to $1,400, including a wiring harness that wasn't stocked anywhere, and had to be custom made, causing a two week delay in return. When the Pacifica was in the shop, they moved into my Town & Country's engine - another $1,200 damage. We bought a "Chipmunkinator" trap from Tractor Supply, and trapped 24 chipmunks and 1 grey squirrel in it over the next few weeks. They don't 'play well' together, as we observed. We now use moth balls in pans under the engines of the vehicles when parked. No more chippies.

We have 4 feral cats that we have TNR (Trap, Neutered, Released). We feed them & they are the best deterrent to rats/mice 😺

Good advice!

Having trouble with them eating the wires under the hood of our car. I took some zip lock sandwich bags and put dollar store sponges in them soaked with ammonia. Punched a bunch of holes in them and zip tied them to vulnerable areas under the hood. It's been a few weeks and so far so good. Probably need to re-soak periodically. 🤞

This never happened until my mom got a new car. Shes been in the same house since 1992 and suddenly she gets a nice new car and there are holes in it every where! What the hell!! Is this something newer cars have an issue with

Mothballs and peppermint? Been there tried that does not work 😞

Honk the horn every-time you start a car will scare rodents but attract Karen.

Hi CR, I too have a video "How do I rodent proof my car?" on my channel which I show using some products I bought from Amazon. I wonder what you think about those if they really work or not.

How about fabric softeners? Heard tgey hate that smell and you can easy put some in the glove compartment and around where the cabin filter is. Even thinking of putting one in there with the cabin filter. Tgey keep getting into one of our cars. Thoughts?

Once you smell it in your car you have to change the cabin filter and engine air filter. I had to vacuum out near and dead mouse from the cabin filter area. What a stink and mess. I spray mint everywhere.

🚧 Thank you

If you're in a garage there's some basic rat protection steps like traps and rat bait.

There is a channel that tests rodent deterrents. Pepper and Mothballs do not work. Real Mint Oil does.

Why are cars designed without a bottom panel to keep rodents from entering and gnawing on vehicle parts? It seems so simple to have a bottom panel attached to cars.

do you recommend leaving the hood open and leaving a light on?

Um how about being like CR and comparing rodent repelling products? Ultrasonic, sprays etc? Also who wants to cover their own car in cayenne?

Next week on CR: How to come in out of the rain.

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CATS ARE GREAT! THEY REALLY HELP! 😺😼😼😼😸

Step 1..... Get a cat. Now put the kettle on.

My insurance just paid 9k for harness and sensor damage 🐀

Careful with the moth balls. I've seen them erode anything rubber in the same space. Cars have rubber parts.

I just paid over $400 from rodent damage in my car!

If you want your car de-moused, put a rat snake in it and leave it in a cool-ish enviro for a week getting the snakes out is a chore, but still less bothersome than whole-ass disassembly and you can lure the snake out easily w/ food or heat Edit; is there a yt upload of the music. Pretty catchy

squirrels ate wiring.. covered by insurance... $11,000... now use peppermint spray .. buy oil at health food store,. gonna add cinnamon and cayene pepper to sprayer per youtube ideas.

Does this mean CR did not follow these suggestions and the expensive Infiniti was infested with mice? Or that these tricks did not work? Viewers would like to know!

This is a poor video!!! You could do much better with more details.

If you have rodents invading your car, you probably have a bigger problem than the car -- like WHY is there a rodent problem near your home in the first place?

It's an infiniti so no one cares if it has rodents.

Don’t park in Mar a Largo. Lots of rats there.

I have an animal that keeps coming back and eats my air filter and it disables the car because it gets stuck in the throttle body. Going back to the mechanic again twice in a month. This is ridiculous.