I just got a pretty big bill for repairs on my 2022 F350 4x4 due to damage caused by rodents chewing through various wires and such. Is there any long term solution to this issue?

 

The only one I found to work is to leave the hood open when truck is parked at the house.
Second best is to pick up one or two cats.

 

PCP Air Rifle

It’s open season year round on any rodent i see anywhere near my truck or RV.

60 yard zero OSOK every time.

 

Electric powered, full auto BB gun should suffice! Just have to buy large quantities of BB’s!

 

having been a dealer SM most of feel for people who suffer from rodent damage, it's not easy to tell someone how much damage a mouse or rat does, like a 6 day old audi a6 3.0 quattro where a mouse got under the timing cover, than when started wound up under the timing belt making it break and jump time, 24 bent valves with holes in the pistons, her insurance footed the bill for a new motor yet told her loose your bird feeders or we lose you should it happen again, bill with labor and core charge was just under 25k at the time
deterrent wise these seem to help https://mouseblocker.com/ put one under the hood, another near by or in the garage should you use one, place a few of these on top of the cabin filter https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/pr...ks-12-pack-866 as mice also find their way up there , they leave a mint like smell that mice seem to not like

 

We live in a very rural area. Sometimes I park my truck in the barn. My car is in the garage. My other truck sits outside. I've never had rodent damage, but then again we have 4 cats that stay outside.

 

https://www.scahealth.com/p/peppermi...1J2LDgYHFqQWCi

 

If truck is garaged - D-Con

 

I put wire mesh (used in screen doors) over the air intakes. To catch the suckers in the barn or garage, I used to use the old fashioned spring loaded traps baited with peanut butter but I think I caught all the mice that like peanut butter. Now I use the rectangular live rat traps baited with Ramik poison. Mice, rats, etc can't seem to resist the bait and it kills them making disposal easier.

I don't like putting out poison without a trap because mice like to store it in their nests...you'll find poison pellets under your seat, under the hood, everywhere. And when it kills the mouse, the mouse dies where you can't find it but you smell it for months.

 

The peppermint oil idea works great...and it smells good. I use it religiously in my race car trailer. Fold up several paper towel and coat them several drops of the oil. Placed throughout the living quarters and garage area. Keeps out all critters including rats, mice, spiders, ants, and other insects.

 

This trap is the best I've ever used. The web site also has a wealth of information regarding pest control, highly recommended:

https://diypestcontrol.com/ketch-all...trap-clear-top

BTW, if you use steel wool to cram around places of entry, use copper wool instead. Mice and rats don't like the taste of the copper, apparently.

 

Our 2020 F-350, 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee, and 1999 Jeep not-so-grand Cherokee live outside in the west slope forest of the northern Sierra Nevada.
After some unidentified rodent(s), which may include some Kamikaze squirrels, ate the PCM wiring on my 2011 Grand Cherokee.
I'm finding lots of acorns in air filter boxes and heater ducts.
I looked on the internet to find out what to do as a defensive measure.
I bought some recommended, battery connected gizmos that both emit a high pitched tone and a blinding strobe light when activated.
This is supposed to scare the buggers away.
I'm not so sure these do any good, but so far, after 3 years have had no further woes in this regard.
Apparently, mice/rats love modern, soy based wiring. The wiring on our '99 XJ is, it seems, too old to be considered as rat bait.
California has banned poisonous liquids to kill mice/rats so the population of rodents has, as was warned, exploded.
In the house we've done everything possible to keep the varmints down. Stuffing stainless steel wool; many kinds of mechanical traps; sticky rat plates; and as we have no pets- glycol.
The same technique has been applied to our 2020 Northstar Laredo truck camper. Rodents loved the 4" blue foam insulation blocks I glued under the floor. Lots of stainless steel wool was strategically placed at entry gaps.
It's an ongoing problem just to stay one step ahead of them.
jefe de nada

 

I prefer the electronic traps. Have a couple in my RV. Have not found where they get in, but they don't last long when they do.
One year our house got invaded by both mice and rats, I live out in the corn fields and a barn up the road got infested with rats. I found where they got it and sealed it and eventually got rid of all the rats using poison, but the mice got into the kitchen wall behind a trash compactor. Peppermint oil did nothing to deter them, then tried traps, they ate through the plastic and escaped. Found the electronic ones and no schiznit, placed it where they were running through and ZAP, cleaned it out, put it back, ZAP, and this went on for a couple hours, killed about a dozen mice that night. Whats weird is we have cats, but they couldn't catch them. When they did, they played with them until they got away.

Once I found the hole, which was under the old garage slab, and they chewed through the baseplate, then through the wall to get into the house, I filled it with rodent proof foam. Have not had a mouse or rat for that matter in the house.

 

soy based wires is the big one, and man do they love it. garage wise i have sticky traps with peanut butter placed in the middle works like a dream. car trailer ultrasonic's and sticky's , classic cars, battery powered ultra's .
inside the air filters under the intake end,peppermint packets,

 

Sorry for your troubles. We constantly battle them in our fifth wheel.