How can u keep rodents out of my new car motor?

i live in the country , my husband raises hunting dogs ,and the dogs lot is way out behined the house and i just got a brand new car and my husband found under the hood of the fire shield of the car where rodents had carry dog food and hid the food their. what can i do to keep them rodents out of my car. thanks so much .How can u keep rodents out of my new car motor?
i too, live in the country, and we have problems with chipmunks and mice. hang some mothballs in some of those mesh bags, that onions come in at the supermarket, in a few areas of the engine compartment. i have read this on more than one occasion in the local papers auto answers column. not too many, don't want to make it smell so bad that you can't enjoy that new car smell!! lol i say one on each side of the back of the engine by the firewall. reposition them if the smell comes into the passenger compartment thru the fresh air vents. maybe right behind the wheel wells and you could also place a bag in front of each of the wells, too. attach them with wire zip ties, or plastic bag ties, keep them away from the exhaust and any moving parts. while changing the oil on the girlfriends car once, i saw how they get up in there. they climb the brake drum or rotor, then hop on to the frame, once they are on the frame, it is pretty easy to get anywhere inside the engine compartment. also, have your husband see if there is anyway that he can cover any openings below the windshield wipers (fresh air intake for the passenger compartment) and also the air intake hose for the engine. one thing you don't want is acorns and such, rattling around in a new car. good luck, hope this helps.How can u keep rodents out of my new car motor?
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start your engine...they won't enjoy that.
Rodents are ';hard wired'; to store food. First thing you need to do is have the dog food in a metal storage container. You need eliminate the over abundant food source for the rodents. What they can't eat immediately, they store for another day.





Next you need to eliminate the rodents. I have had good luck with poison that comes in a block that they have to chew. The pelitized poison gets carried around and stored.





Put mouse traps under your car so you can drive in the garage without hitting them, but will catch a mouse now and then.





I don't like the smell of moth balls, but I haven't had any luck keeping rodents away with the smell. I think hanging anything in your engine compartment is dangerous. It could start a fire or cause a multitude of other problems
I would have bought a Jaguar. Everyone knows that mice hate cats.
try mixing peppermint oil and spearmint oil 50-50 and putting a few drops in the affected area