Azjeff
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We're going camping for a couple of days at White Tank Mountains campground where we camped last month and a (most likely) pack rat took a look in the engine bay and left some footprints. I'm going proactive this trip with 2 popular methods of repelling the wire chewing vermin.
#1 is peppermint oil. A couple of cotton balls dipped in it in a plastic container sitting on the engine cover so the smell fills the engine bay and a squirt bottle with diluted solution to spray under the truck below the engine. I've been using peppermint oil in this trailer since we got it and haven't have a rodent in it yet.
#2 is some bright 6500k LED lights under the hood to give the dirty rats a headache if they brave the peppermint smell. Got the 12" light bars off Amazon and got them hooked up today. Lights under the truck and in the engine bay is a popular deterrent, walking around a campground at night you see quite a few different methods of lighting it up. They pull .5 amps each so running them all night shouldn't be a problem. I don't think I want them in there permanently so used velcro straps around the wire loom.
#1 is peppermint oil. A couple of cotton balls dipped in it in a plastic container sitting on the engine cover so the smell fills the engine bay and a squirt bottle with diluted solution to spray under the truck below the engine. I've been using peppermint oil in this trailer since we got it and haven't have a rodent in it yet.
#2 is some bright 6500k LED lights under the hood to give the dirty rats a headache if they brave the peppermint smell. Got the 12" light bars off Amazon and got them hooked up today. Lights under the truck and in the engine bay is a popular deterrent, walking around a campground at night you see quite a few different methods of lighting it up. They pull .5 amps each so running them all night shouldn't be a problem. I don't think I want them in there permanently so used velcro straps around the wire loom.
