Rodent vs soy based wiring

[MaverickDragon]

Cats - The non-poisonous rodent control.
Pre-cat - It was a battle.
Post-cat - I won the war.

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[Cancunbadlands]

Damn rats!

 

[Randorita]

The only good mouse is a computer mouse!

 

[HeyBales]

Because of rodent issues on my 2020 F150 a few years ago I started parking @ night over bright LED lights. The LED lights stopped my rodent problems.

Hmmmm - for those where the nesting is mainly when it's cold out.
Another thread mentioned marking over a bright non-LED light for extra heat on oil pan - some level of warmup.
Seems that would be serving double function then.

 

[Ryom]

You can also spray some corrosion inhibitor around the engine bay to make the wires distasteful to critters and protect the components.

https://www.amazon.com/ACF-50-Anti-Corrosion-Lubricant-Compound-Aerosol/dp/B000P1C8UO
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HX3VFH3
https://learchem.com/products/acf-50.html
https://learchem.com/files/brochures/acf-50-techspecs-2016.pdf

 

[KenR]

Parking over the LED lights for 6 years now with zero rodent damage. My first and last rodent damage was just weeks after buy my new 2020 F150 & before the LED lights. As for the heat from the KED lights attacking rodents in the winter... the lights are on 5 watts each and about 8-10 inches from the bottom of the truck pointing to the back side of each brake assembly.

 

[Ecorydr]

Lived on a big (woodsy) lake in MO for several years. Mice, chipmonks, cats, rabbits all like warm engines with tasty wires. Had our brand new '23 Superduty get hit by a chipmonk that partialy bit thru a injector wire. Noticed the misfire going to the store one day....

Fixed it, did the pepermint spray and the 12v noise/light boxes under the hood and no more issues. Also would recommend checking under any (several days to a week) parked car hoods occasionally. The frequent checks also deter them via activity.

BTW, they like to nest and chew on cabin air filters too.

 

[Bret Grabber]

Several prior threads on this, had posters recommending peppermint oil soaked in cotton ball inside an old pill bottle with some holes in it, zipped tied to a few areas of truck.
Made resoak easy with cap.

Now - if you go camping in bear areas where they know to check out vehicles for food - not a deterrent or recommended.

Be careful with mint oil if you have cats. It is poison to them! But, I know from experience the mice won't go near it! Just keep it fresh!

 

[Fordoldfart]

Irish spring soap grated and scattered around the engine bay works for me.

 

[Finnster]

Irish spring soap grated and scattered around the engine bay works for me.

Time for me to go shopping!

 

[Ecorydr]

Irish spring soap grated and scattered around the engine bay works for me.

+1. We also use Irish Spring soap bars in closed plastic soap dishs with approx ten 1/8" holes drilled through top and sides. We placed these in our RV (on) storage pass-through, kitchen, pantry, bathroom floors. They are very effective as a deterent year round.

That along with a couple of traps baited with a few half cut reseese pieces in each incase any adventurous ones get by our soap deterent, and we do get a few of them occasionally too!

For our long parked cars, have used dryer sheets in the glove box and ontop of floor mats which works well to as a deterent and freshness smell!

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