Mice!!

[subquark]

When I look at your avatar and think of the subject of this thread, all I see is this…

I had an issue with my truck a year or two ago after my truck sat idle for three or four days at the cottage - it was a real mess. I have since been spraying down the engine bay with a rodent repellent called Doktor Doom - not available in the U.S. but the label lists the active ingredients.

I haven’t had a problem since. I’m now at this location for four-five months each summer and continue to use it. That‘s not necessarily proof that it works - it could simply be that mice haven’t around. However, if you can find a product in your area with Denatonium Benzoate 0.075%, it just might work for you.

0.075% - man, I bet at full strength, it would cancer cancer.

You're right - it's a bittering agent used in things like isopropyl alcohol and methanol.

Like you said, Doktor Doom's Rodent Repellent like yours is not in the USA BUT ....

US Amazon has this for $24 and it makes 528 gallons of the stuff - just enough to bathe all of Soupie!

https://www.amazon.com/Denatonium-Benzoate-Bitter-Compound-Ingredient/dp/B0CJPVDMBP

I just might have a go with this! Probably has no smell (unlike my current concoction of Burrito and Cinnabon flavoured spray). =D

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[Doc]

My WRX had an awful smell.. I put two sticky traps on the backseat floor and there was a dead mouse in each one ..
( before, they ate the corner of my drivers seat, anyone know how to fix that) ?

 

[IdahoRanger]

My WRX had an awful smell.. I put two sticky traps on the backseat floor and there was a dead mouse in each one ..
( before, they ate the corner of my drivers seat, anyone know how to fix that) ?

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

My WRX had an awful smell.. I put two sticky traps on the backseat floor and there was a dead mouse in each one ..
( before, they ate the corner of my drivers seat, anyone know how to fix that) ?

How about this……..

Short of taking the cover off and sewing a strip or whole panel in, I can’t think of a way that will look halfway decent.

 

[Doc]

Can’t read it…what is it ?

 

[IdahoRanger]

Can’t read it…what is it ? Just humor.

Yeah it wasn't very good.

 

[Doc]

Yeah it wasn't very good.

Thanks ! I ebayed some 5/0 suture material, I have needle drivers at home ..

 

[Doc]

Put a couple of peanuts in the middle ..

 

[RangerTX]

I went old school and it worked.

I put a mouse trap with peanut butter in the passenger floor. Caught the sucker the first night.

 

[Ranger_Rocks]

I use these glue traps inside our garage. They work well for bugs, mice, shrews, lizards, etc.

If visible from outside while the garage doors are open... birds, toads, etc may come for the bugs stuck in the trap... then they too are stuck.

I doubt the glue is strong enough to hold a rat.

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

I went old school and it worked.

I put a mouse trap with peanut butter in the passenger floor. Caught the sucker the first night.

I would keep that practice up because I bet it has friends and family.

 

[Archer88]

Hello all.

I have that problem with my 2019 Ford Ranger. Yes mice. I trap them in the cabin almost 3 or 4 a week in spite of peppermint, cedar, moth balls etc... in the engine compartment and inside the cabin.
I am told and I have read they enter via the air intake to the cabin.
Air intake gets into the cabin via the air vents behind cowl, the plastic piece beneath the the windshield.
I have looked everywhere to understand how they get behind the cowl to access the air intake. There are no obvious holes around the cowl.
Is there another way they can get into the cabin?

There are two rubber pieces around the 2 tow hooks on each side beneath the front bumper. I attached a pic and it shows what they call the rubber piece Air Intake Duct Surround. Do mice enter here to follow a passageway that leads to the air intake beneath the cowl? From here do mice follow another passageway to the cabin filter and then drop onto the passenger side floor?

I am trying to figure out how to prevent them from getting in by installing a screen somewhere? Hoping to solve this once and for all.

Thanks for your ideas. Henri.

 

[RangerBill]

See this thread : https://www.ranger5g.com/forum/threads/mice.22418/

They can enter under the cowl below the windshield.

 

[airline tech]

There are threads covering this very issue.

But to answer your question - The Cowl & The Rear Exhaust Vents are the entry points.
Just search through the threads:

Here is my added screen, just a drywall sanding screen - tapped in place

They get into this area from the - Cowl Drains on each side of the cowl.

 

[Archer88]

See this thread : https://www.ranger5g.com/forum/threads/mice.22418/

They can enter under the cowl below the windshield.

Thanks. I could not see how they get into that space. I did not want to remove the cowl just to explore. Now I know there are two drainage holes that mice use to enter the space beneath the cowl. Thanks again!

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