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If you look under the hood and kinda next to the hinge on the driver side you may see an opening that provides easy entry for a mouse to get into the fresh air cowell area leading to the cabin filter. I have found this opening is present on some but not all trucks, and it is 100% the most likely entry point leading to the cabin filter. A very simple fix is to block the opening with 1/4” wire mesh embedded in a mastic caulk.
Here’s a foto of the wire mesh installed to block the opening:
Take a small Tupperware container and cut a hole in the end. Fill it 50/50 jiffy cornbread mix and baking soda. The baking soda makes them uncomfortable and they go lay down. After laying down they die from bloating.
If you look under the hood and kinda next to the hinge on the driver side you may see an opening that provides easy entry for a mouse to get into the fresh air cowell area leading to the cabin filter. I have found this opening is present on some but not all trucks, and it is 100% the most likely entry point leading to the cabin filter. A very simple fix is to block the opening with 1/4” wire mesh embedded in a mastic caulk.
Here’s a foto of the wire mesh installed to block the opening:
Very cool.
That is the entry point I was looking for.
Take a small Tupperware container and cut a hole in the end. Fill it 50/50 jiffy cornbread mix and baking soda. The baking soda makes them uncomfortable and they go lay down. After laying down they die from bloating.
I fought this in my 2010 Prius for a year. Sealed everything up, poison everywhere and nothing worked. Eventually I went nuclear and wrapped the car up in plastic and flooded it with pure nitrogen for a day. The smell of victory was a dead mouse smell in the car for a week or so (could not find it) but that was the end...I new use a poison bait bar called "just one bite" and they work. I assume I got the mice at work as people fed birds seed in the parking garage. Bad thing about Toyotas is that some of the wiring is made from SOY. EPA idiots.
We have a Rav4 Hybrid and the same mouse intrusion is happening on it also.
Mark
