🛑 STOP Rodents From Eating Vehicle Wires
🐀 EASY and SAFE
Repel Rodents from your vehicle wiring and save thousands of dollars in repair bills and the extreme headache of being a victim of these prolific chewers.
A box or bag of mothballs lasts 1-2 years under the hood
An alternative is Mint Oil, but it is not as long lasting.
If you don’t like the smell of or are allergic to moth balls (naphthalene) you can use mint oil.
Peppermint, spearmint or wintergreen which is a combination of peppermint and spearmint oils.
It is very effective and comes with a plesant smell but it degrades and dissipates fast so it will require a monthly refresh.
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I took essential oil of peppermint soaked with cotton and put in my engine.
That will work too.
Thank you, i can live with peppermint scent. I’m going to do this. I must be allergic to mothballs. I get soo sick when I smell them. I feel like I’m gonna die. If mothball smell was in my car? I’d have to throw it away.
It’s a better and less toxic way to go, if the animals hate mint.
I have found that rodents eat wires that machanics touched after they ate food with oils and such whitch flavers the wires with what ever they handled. The pack-rats that infested my home when I was gone ate all the silcone buttens out of all tv remots and walkie talkies as well of my cordless phones. Just thought I would add that. I like your videos.....good help.
Apparently they made a lot of rubber coating out of a food product such as soy. That is another reason. I heard that was going to be stopped due to the rodents. We’ll see.
Thank you, Cougar ranch for this. Have a blessed day 😊
My Pleasure. 🙏🏽
Thank you! This is awesome❤️
Thank you so much! This is an amazing tip, will buy some tomorrow.
Thank you !!!! I had this and still haven’t got it fixed ! Wish I had done this ! I’m doing it to the other cars this weekend!!!
Good idea! Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you 🙏🏼
Great help. TY
good tip! I'd use zip ties instead of a twisty tie
Thanks, great advice.
Thanks for watching
How about getting rid of squirrels from the garden, any idea will be much appreciated. Love your channel. Thanks for sharing all you tips.
Good one Brad. I've had this problem at our place.
Well, the snow is melting and I'm bracing for the onslaught. I've got all of my mothball packages mounted and 10 buckets out!!
How about the attic with the bag of mothballs? 🤔 Will it work? Because I noticed the mouses' poops everywhere in the attic.
I've been trying to take care of squirrels in my house which is a major project for the last year I tried everything from ammonia to mothballs to the stuff they sell at the store peppermint cages I've shot a handful of them with my 22 pellet gun that's been the best deterrent cuz they don't like to be shot and they know when their family's gone but really none of it work totally they stayed in the house and I couldn't totally get them I closed off the holes and they would chew through things and the whole deal so then I finally hear this from the ranch here a bucket with a can and a wire and peanut butter and it does the trick thank you you know it takes somebody thinking outside the box I mean I I'm pretty good at inventing things but I wouldn't come up with something like that it's great so kudos in the mothballs under the hood for the wires is good one too
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Thanks Jerri
10-4 Good buddy ! Thanks Jim Canada
Good one, thanks.
Glad you liked it!
Great idea. My friend had her wires chewed.
I know it happens and I'm also so sorry to hear of it.
Cap’n! This is great! Can You talk about those Deer Whistles on Kauai Chrissie’s VW?
While we're waiting, I will say I've used them for years and for at least 2 million miles as a trucker. The sound seems to stop them in their tracks, almost as if they were paralyzed, and enables the driver to simply drive around them! Hope my perspective is helpful.
@@goldfieldgaryhi I’m a trucker here too. Nowhere near 2 million miles tho (250,000) I was wondering about those myself and heard “I Dono” or “They don’t do anything” sounded like another idono. Running over deer is a horrible experience. Amazing how fast they travel and erratic, then right in front of you! Moose or elk is concerning. Met a trucker who paid five grand for a bumper because a deer tore his truck up and five years later was still making payments on the repairs. He regretted not having a deer bumper from the start. Probably should get some whistles too! Anywho, drive safely!
@@felishiadarling I bought deer whistles after hitting one on US6 in Utah, if you travel that route there are always dead deer littering the entire area.
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This will also help keep my cat out from under my Jeep. I saw him slide out last nite. Last thing I need is to fry him or leave him somewhere lost. Thanks
Good stuff
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That is good to know for under the hood now I can fix that. But what about inside the car? They got inside my car and what an expensive mess. Any help ? Thanks
They generally find their way in from under the hood.
Do you have a remedy to stop those pesty little brown birds from building nests inside the engine of my car and truck? I spend hours every week now that it's nesting season pulling nests out of my car's engine compartment and from down inside my truck's engine cover. Thank you for the advice on keeping mice from chewing the wires 2 years it cost $6,000.00 to replace the wiring harness in my truck from the mice and like you said the insurance companies does not cover rodent damage.
I've never had the problem with them building nests in cars but in my airplane, yes this is a huge issue. I landed in Provo, Utah and while they were refueling the plane and we were inside getting snacks and paying the bill, those pesky blackbirds feverishly hauled an unbelievable ton of nest material inside the cowl and on top of the ultra hot engine. We had to take the engine cowling completely off to clean it all out, all the while the birds were trying to put it back with us RIGHT THERE. Access is the key... if they can't get in, they can't build. When our plane is not flying we have covers that block every entrance to the engine compartment and they don't get in. Sorry but I have no idea on this one...except for suggesting that you maybe use screen material to block their entrance. Good Luck.
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Howdy!
I have a 8 Oz bottle of Bonide Pyrethrin and it’s only 1% Pyrethrin and 10% Piperonyl Butoxide and 89% other ingredients. I want to mix up the carpenter bee spray but not sure the dosage of this compared to 10% permethrin. Any advice?
Try it and see what happens... if it works... new science,,, if it doesn't work... get 10%
According to scientist Hulda Clark (“A Cure for all Disease”) mothballs are incredibly toxic, so try not to touch them, or inhale the fumes. Isn’t one step missing? How do the fumes from the mothballs get out of the packet? The hole in the top, that’s reinforced & used to hang the bag, is not in the packet. And sadly, The prices have went up 25% at the dollar store, but I get mothballs there also.
Watch it again... Prick a small pin hole in the bag but WARNING!!! No hole is necessary... the fumes escape when it gets warm. Even if YOU don't smell it... your nose is not as good as a rodent... THEY can smell it. Yes Naphthalene is toxic especially if you eat it but let's put some much needed common sense back in the conversation... Naphthalene was created in the 1800's and has been used since 1821 heavily as an insecticide and repellent for pests every since and especially for wool eating moths. Naphthalene has been phased out because it is extremely FLAMABLE and the replacement chemical that is not flammable smells just like it... Guess it's the obnoxious smell that is the repellent!! No cancers or illnesses have been attributed to it but it has gotten a bad wrap because people get lax (I've said this in many of my videos that people are too busy on their electronic devices and don't watch their children) and the small white balls look like candy and children eat them and bad things happen. My grandparents kept mothballs in their closets and it didn't kill them, my grandmother and father lived into their mid 90's and I'm still alive after smelling them for way more years than I'll admit too and even now I have them under the hood of every vehicle and machine on the ranch. Hey, that's probably why my IQ is so high, from smelling Mothballs growing up!! Ya Think? Just like EVERYTHING ELSE Janet... Moderation... Did you know that tomatoes used out of moderation are DEADLY...? Did you that Tylenol is a registered POISON and used out of moderation is deadly toxic..? Read this for a good laugh and see how ANYTHING can be considered TOXIC in some way, shape or form. cougarridgeranch.com/dread-tomato-addiction/ Oh, by the way... if it were really so "sky is falling" toxic... our government would have already banned it to save the alarmist idiots from themselves, but you can still buy them EVERYWHERE, so sorry, they're not as toxic as you may want to believe.
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I have some peppermint oil Im in the UK Never had rats before Didnt realise what filthy ,destructive animals they are Ive subscribed
Thanx for your sub. The peppermint oil is not quite strong enough for the chipmunks and rodents here so our vehicles smell like grandma's coat closet 🤣
They still sell moth balls?
Nope back in 1998 I have a 82 Dodge Mirada cmx I parked it at my two boxes of mothballs on the ground parked car over that spot where I put them open the hood put some all over engine compartment throw both boxes under the car came back one month later raise the hood and it was a big old rat on the engine the rats drug one of the boxes up there to help build the nest Sono mothballs do not work in Louisiana
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