Mice in trucks

Fresh Cab Botanical Rodent repellent. Google it.
Last I looked, Amazon sells it, although some sellers do not have prompt shipping.
 
My FIL is a strong believer in moth balls. He puts about a half dozen in can on the floorboard of the combine and grain trucks when they'll be setting a while.
 
Spray buck shot (nah only kidding) live cats are pretty good, especially if hungry. They can spray if male! Jim
 
(quoted from post at 17:05:18 10/16/18) Is there something you can spray in a truck to discourage mice. Thank you

Dave

I've heard of all of those... and cut up a bar of Irish Spring soap and put in several areas of the car/truck

j
 

Th peppermint oil seemed to work well for me. A major factor is the amount of sunlight. If it is outdoors, whatever you use will need to be renewed more often.
 
Well I know the irish spring works to keep rabbit and deer from chewing on young fruit trees in winter. The neighbor next door is a car collector and uses dryer sheets but says only one brand actually works and I don't remember which one. I have use moth balls but stinks the hell out of vehicle.
 
twist tobacco works.. get some brake it up and place it in various places.. I have used tobacco in my baler, attic, etc. works real well..
 
One thing you do NOT want to do is put poison bait in your truck.

It's BAIT, it attracts the mice. You want to attract them AWAY from the truck, so if you keep the truck in a barn, position bait packs around the perimeter of the barn, and keep putting fresh ones out when you see them being eaten. The mice will smell them from the truck, venture out for some food, and not make it back because they get thirsty and go looking for water, dying on the way.
 
I like all the answers but know a lot don't work. Irish springs, dryer sheets, peppermint oil, moth balls. No luck. Best luck I have had is to fed them. When we were kids we always had a cat locked in the garage without food. Normally left it in there a week at a time. Just water and sand box. No mice made it.
 
Firstthing......look to see if you can find out where they are coming into the cab.
Unless it's an old rust bucket, it should be fairly tight [u:2c926eda31]except[/u:2c926eda31]
where the air enters for the heat and A/C.
I have two Toyota Tacomas and you would think the engineers tried to make it easy for mice to get in.
Under the cowl in front of the windshield are several large openings for letting fresh air into the heating and A/C system.
On top of that, there is a great big air intake under the LF fender for that leads right into the air cleaner box.
So, not only did I have mice in the cabin filter box but also chewing on the engine air filter.
I had some 1/4" hardware cloth from which I made screens for all those entrances.
It was a bit of a nuisance forming and fastening all of them for both trucks but I have not had mice inside either of them in the year since I did it.
Like a lot of other things in vehicles, a little forethought by the engineers could save a lot of aggravation!
 
On your large farm trucks they can chew through steering column boot , clutch rod boot and gear shift boot.
 
Hi, Bruce:
Not to hijack the thread, but I tried Irish Spring in a tool drawer, where field mice had been peeing on tools. No much help, the field mice chewed away about 30 per cent of the Irish Spring soap bar. Also had a ground hog take away a chunk of D-con from where I put it in a dug out passage, next day he brought it back! some times you just don't know!!

Dennis M. in W. Tenn.
 
I have had boats. Lots of boats. Always stored over the winter indoors. I always put dryer sheets through out the boat. NEVER had a mouse problem. Maybe I have different mice than some of these people. Greg
 

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