What's the best thing to use to keep mice from chewing on the wires under your car hood?

I've heard that you can use moth balls and cayenne pepper. Do you know of any other things I can try?What's the best thing to use to keep mice from chewing on the wires under your car hood?
rat poison placed in stratigic places throughout your underhood area, for example, where you're experiencing chewed wires.





rid-x works great.





for a safe, non-life-threatening method try moth balls. place a dozen or so in a small paper cup. place it in places such as the poison. have about 4 cups per vehicle. the smell will deter.





or get a cat and hope for the best. i hate cats, i'd rather kill the little son of a gun rodents.What's the best thing to use to keep mice from chewing on the wires under your car hood?
It is not just the wires underneith your hood that you should be worried about. You should also consider the wires everywhere else throughout the entire car. Also to include the wiring that is behind the dash panel. Mice love to chew on wires back there. In fact the whole backside of the dash panel is a mouse paradise. Even the glove box can become a good home for mice as well. Headliners, seats, carpeting, are all good mouse material. I have found that if you have the vehicle parked inside... Doesn't matter where... The mice will find the car. This is what I do to keep mice away... Open the glove box door, open the ash tray's... All of them, open any other compartments, like consols and the like. Open the hood and trunk. roll down the windows as well. If it is possible to park the car in such a way that light can get to it... All the better. Mice hate light. That is why they enjoy the backside of the dash panel... Nice and dark. Same goes for the hood and trunk... When closed, no light. Field day for mice to chew on everything in sight. And they will. As long as there is light showing through, and everything is open, mice don't like it. It works well for me.
There is something called ';Just One Bite';. put them in the corners of where ever the car is parked %26amp; maybe one or two blocks under the hood (they come in a single 8 block piece you have to break them up).





I bought mine at a (hard ware, or feed/farm supply store u may have to google it). about $4.85 a pack. try this %26amp; your rat problem or anything else that bites it will soon be gone.





I was told that the rat bites it its like a food for a hungry rat they just cant resist %26amp; its a peanut butter color except its hard %26amp; its like a slow but baddd poison it makes them very thirsty so they go off looking for water %26amp; they cant find it in time %26amp; they're toast. It sorta likes embalms them inside out so you most likely wont even have a smell if you find one just chunk him away or you could leave him %26amp; let its cousins see the out come if they mess with your wires. ;)
Damn, another question gets a mess of screwballs thinking up answers!


An old sock filled with moth balls has been the best way that works and I have not heard of anything else that works better.


Don't go for the high tech electronic devices, moth balls are cheap and don't fail.
Park you car in such a place which is away from this population like concrete surface or something similar where there are less chances of mice activities.
I would just spray most of the engine bay down with hot sauce (dont hit the headers or you'll be smelling burning hot sauce for the next month)
Keep a cat under the car hood
leave the engine running
Moth Balls!
get an optical mouse...no need for wires
hang car from tree.
thats funny but mice traps or pioson might work gud luk
rat poison! that should keep em away
Cats. I have four cats. Guess what? No mice!
put some hot sauce on the wires worked good to cure my cat from chewing on wires
mouse trap cat wil work Poison will do the trick