anyone else ever get pests in the engine compartment of your vehicles?

any ideas as to how to prevent this? our house backs up to a creek which is home to small wildlife, and i don't think total extermination is feasible

we are keeping the vehicles garaged, and using dryer sheets placed underneath the vehicle (a tip we've been offered)...

i park outside quite a bit, and i can't keep them out of mine...so far, no chewing, but my wife's mustang suffered a gnawed fueld injector line last fall which was an expensive replacement of the whole fuel rail

edit: forgot to mention the limitations on traps/poison bait--we have a dog...the first exterminator somehow didn't get the message and laced our property and garage with poison where pugsley promptly found and ate it...maybe we get a cat? the neighbors have a mainecoon, and it's a monster...just too many mice i suppose...

 

Put one of these in the garage, and I guarantee the critters go away...

 

we have a wolf-dog, but our lab-pit mix is the rodent killer of the house...he sleeps inside with us though!

beautiful shepherd man!

i think it might be squirrels getting into mine, because i haven't seen a mouse in months since i went on my rampage with my hatchet

 

We had our Ranger pickup parked in a little shed at the corner of our driveway last summer, I opened up the hood one day and discovered that the squirrels had hauled a bunch of insulation down from the ceiling and stuffed it in the fender well on the truck!! They didn't chew on anything but squirrels can be damn destructive when they do!

A cat or two would be a good option. My folks used to have mouse problems years ago, they have kept 2-3 cats around the place for several years now and they no longer have mice in the house, not many left in the barn and very few gophers in the yard. They're cats now go across the road into the field to hunt because they've wiped out the local critters!!

 

I had some in the Grand Marquis since it was sitting in a field for 2 years. The mice were easy enough to get out of it, its the smell they leave behind that is the pain took almost a month to get it out.

Moth ***** around the vehicle will keep them and squirrels away, just make sure the dog cant get to them.

 

You don't have any hulks flying around your house, do you?

J/K

 

We had a mouse or something that would drag dog food onto the top of the motor on my mom's mountaineer.

 

Yup, seen it lots of times around here. Moth ***** planted on top of the engine will usually keep them away.

 

On my grandparents farm, the cats would sleep in the engine compartment... talk about a horrible sound when you crank the engine...

 

I kept getting critters in my attic. Still don't know how the hell they were getting in there.

I wish I had a few cats, I'd let them roam the attic for a few days, just to clear up any issues. Cats wil make short work of squirrels too.

But, my three dogs live in the house, and so far, no critters have been THAT stupid.