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Is there any good ways to keep rodents out that people here have found to actually work? 

I live in the upper midwest, in town, and the car sits for no more than 3 days. Usually it's used more than that. 

I was just looking around, checking fluids, and saw a nest and feces. 

I had peppermint extract so I saturated the engine area in that for now. 
I wouldn't want to stay in there. lol


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Get a rubber snake.


Since I'm perpetually stuck under the hood, I just wait & hiss whenever I hear the pitter patter of rodent toes😄

There's so many stray cats here that the smallest "rodents" I've seen were rabbits & skunks.

https://youtu.be/2acZIOSV9LY


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I had this same problem with my F250.  My mechanic told me to just open your hood and leave it open about a 1/4 of the way.  If it's gonna rain before hand, you can close it, then open it after the rain.  If you're parked under a shed or in a garage, you can leave it like that at all times.  That fixed my rodent issue.


Why the down vote? When I lived in the woods outside of Redding in the 80s, I had a rodent problem in my truck. An old time logger dude told me about the rubber snake trick because all rodents are deathly afraid of them. It worked.


I thought your answer was a joke, but reading up on it appears that rubber snakes do work. My bad.


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I have been using peppermint oil for over a year now and so far the little varmint hose chewer has not returned


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Scotty answered similat question at 2:05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbpStlEnVls


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I’ve had good luck with drier sheets.. not sure why but it seems to work 


Specific ones or anyones you can get?


I’ve just used whatever I’ve had”bounce” for example


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