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Owned the truck 5+ yrs and for the first time have mouse intrusion into the cabin air filter.
Truck is stored outdoors in a carport.
Our barn cats died a couple of years ago.
Engine air filter is clean.
No visible wiring damage as yet.
Questions...
Where under the hood where do the mice enter?
Those with experience with this what have you done for preventive measures?
Mark
I had a mouse in my truck once. Stupid thing got into my coffee mug (with lid opened) and drowned while i was in a store. Came out and sipped from it till i got home. Discovered the mouse when i went to wash it out. I park in my garage and used to leave the window open couple inches, which i don't do anymore. Even leaving it open quarter inch will let mice in. If the head fits (pencil size), the rest will go through too.
I had a mouse in my truck once. Stupid thing got into my coffee mug (with lid opened) and drowned while i was in a store. Came out and sipped from it till i got home. Discovered the mouse when i went to wash it out. I park in my garage and used to leave the window open couple inches, which i don't do anymore. Even leaving it open quarter inch will let mice in. If the head fits (pencil size), the rest will go through too.
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.
I park a truck for months on end in my barn. Mice are nocturnal and don't like light. I slide an 8ft led light bar ( like what you'd put on a shop ceiling) under truck on floor facing up. Its on a timer so only comes on dusk to dawn.
Been over a yr and so far so good. There are also feral cats running around so who knows.
Owned the truck 5+ yrs and for the first time have mouse intrusion into the cabin air filter.
Truck is stored outdoors in a carport.
Our barn cats died a couple of years ago.
Engine air filter is clean.
No visible wiring damage as yet.
Questions...
Where under the hood where do the mice enter?
Those with experience with this what have you done for preventive measures?
Mark
The mouse is taking the insulation off of the backside of the hard black pieces on either side of the engine. Get a flashlight and look in the vally of the engine thats where the mice would also build their nests on my 16 6.7. Mouse trap on the fuse box, mouse trap on the turbo pipe keep setting them, discard the dead and reset. I don't use poison because of my dogs.
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