Exterminators Choice Vehicle Defense Spray - 32 Ounce Peppermint Car Spray for Mice & Rats - Rat Protection for Car Engine - Anti Squirrel Solution for Vehicles & Trucks

Living in a desert community has one particular nuisance that for some can be entirely non-existent, but unfortunately for others, can be a persistent nuisance. $2k in repairs after an invading bushy tail renovates a car's warm engine compartment is a critical matter that not everyone can readily afford to repair. A car that refuses to start is a startling inconvenience and even risks being a huge expense before things are returned to normal. Possibly insurance will pay the bill to get everything running properly again, but it all just adds more complication that nobody wants. The engine wiring is most vulnerable and the most tedious and costly to replace. Rats teeth are designed to shred the plastic coating from wiring and can easily split vacuum lines and ignition cables. The last time my car was damaged by little furry intruders only took about 20 minutes, but the resultant costs made it a necessity to take some preventive measures. Engine compartment insulation is also a major target for these four-legged scoundrels who will tear it to shreds and then nest in it. Poison might help save the car stored out back that you are planning to restore some day. Primary defense for those with a gated yard is having pets who instinctively remain on sentinel duty for the entirety of their lives and are constantly alert in their search to root out unwanted little fur balls. Rodents can be a real plague in sparsely populated rural areas where not everyone has a garage or fenced-in yard to park their vehicle safely and may have to park where they become the center of attention for vermin and thieves alike. In that case sophisticated measures are needed since leaving the hood open is just an invitation for thievery, as any used car dealer knows. I needed some protection but anything less than blocking all intrusion into my car's engine compartment from the underside was out of the question. I can reach easily into my car's engine compared to the vast majority that are so stuffed with components that rats can easily find a comfy place to hide. It takes about five minutes but every opening gets plugged with my array of hole stuffers that work very well, also covering and blocking access to all the intricate wiring, and my efforts have kept all intruders out for the past several years. At one point I thought about using an inflatable shield to block entry from the underside to possibly simplify the protection process, but then saw an add for some spray-on rodent repellant. Comparing the cost and time and effort involved, I decided to first try the spray repellant. Not actually believing all the hype, the thought of leaving the wires unprotected overnight still persuaded me to keep some of my existing protections. I also added a noise alarm that supposedly drives rats away and then added some lights that would light up the engine compartment whenever movement was detected. Finally I set a couple of cameras in strategic places so I could watch all the action that was going on underneath my hood. As suspected, a rat found its way in but didn't hang around long enough to damage anything. I checked the cameras daily at first and discovered in each of several tries the rat was being persuaded to make a quick exit. The lights were working and the enclosed area wreaked of peppermint that apparently hides an odor that is intolerable to rodents. This repeated several times over the next three or four days until finally being visited by a grey squirrel. They are so big and awkward it knocked one camera over and then he was gone again as fast as he had arrived. That was the last intrusion and after a few weeks I could remove the cameras because the intruding vermin had finally decided this place was not going to have all the conveniences they were looking for. That was several months ago and there is no evidence of intrusion ever since. I have used both the spray and grinding noise maker separately in a couple of other places with complete success at eliminating rat infestations, so there is plenty of evidence to show these devices are doing their job as claimed. The engine compartment gets sprayed about once a month and the batteries for the grunge blaster are charged every two months, and of course the batteries for the lights won't need charging when there isn't any movement to set them off. No nests, no signs of intrusion, no split wires, and the costs and efforts involved are minor compared to the costs of damage that is possible when there is no protection at all.

I'm tired of oil changes guys finding mice and their nest in my car's airbox. This stuff just works. Spray it in there and let it dry before driving. Lasts a long time, too.

UPDATE 2/16: Ther product seems to work well to deter squirrels,mice and rats when sprayed every few days. Unfortunately it did not seem to deter rabbits from chewing through the power steering wires on my vehicle again. I will be supplementing the spray with some Rabbit Scram now to see if that helps. Original Review: The bottle is easy to use and the smell is pleasant. I have seen no evidence of additional rodent damage to my vehicles since spraying the product on the engine wiring and wheel wells. I will revisit this review again in a few months.

I sprayed on the inside front hood to deter mice and it appears to work well.

Spray bottle doesn’t work. The top broke off and created a mess

It works for me!! This order was shipped promptly and well packaged. I've had nothing else work the way this product does. Three different times my vehicle was in the shop for chewed wiring and other damage and I've tried everything. I'm satisfied with this product.

This didn't work for me, but let me give you a few details about my extreme situation. This spray has a lot stacked of up against it: • I live in Chicago, where the rats are huge and numerous. • My parking lot has rat burrows and my landlord could not care less and is not legally required to do anything but put poison out and hope the rats eat it. • This happened during lockdown, when the restaurants were closed and the rats were starving. • My car has delicious soy-based wire casings that rats find to be a good snack. • My car's engine compartment is also designed in a way that makes it super easy for rats to get in and chill on top of the engine block. • Seriously don't buy a 2012 Ford Focus because the rats love it. Anyway, I sprayed this around the car, tires, and in the engine comparment (in spots my mechanic approved), and the rats just chewed the wires anyway. Twice. After I sprayed this AND WD40, the rats just chewed the wires again. This is just bonus info to anyone having as much trouble as I am: I started parking on the street, purchased Honda Rat Tape (tape that has capsacin in it, which rats hate) to put on the wires, and then started spraying water mixed with peppermint oil on my engine block and the tires. When I stopped spraying peppermint the rats got back in, but either they aren't as hungry or the tape tastes horrible, because they at least hadn't chewed a wire (yet). I found rat poop in there recently so they're clearly hanging out in the engine even while I'm parked on the street.

I love this product as it was easy to use. But, in all honesty I don't know how well it works because since I had rats in my heater in the car, they made a nice little nest) and it cost me $600 to have repaired, I've bought a ton of things to keep them away. I bought an ultra sonic thing that hooks onto the car battery, I've sprinkled cayenne pepper on all the wiring and everything else, I used this spray too. So, I don't really know if this works or if it's one of the other multitude of things I've tried but whatever it is, THEY'RE GONE. UPDATE. This product definitely works. I did a little experiment. The other day I went to do my final mowing and as I wheeled the lawn mower around to the back of the house tons of rats came scurrying out. I couldn't believe that many rats could fit in a lawn mower. So I mowed and when I put it back in the carport I put out poison pellets and sprayed the lawn mower with this spray. Not a pellet was touched because the spray kept the away and no more rats in the lawn mower. I'm in a spraying frenzy now and most important for me is that I don't have to kill them. They're animals too.