# Mice in Engine **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [October 5, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mice-in-engine/20388 "2008-10-05T18:11:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fdcbrandy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@fdcbrandy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/fdcbrandy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mice-in-engine/20388/1 "2008-10-05T18:11:44Z")
I recently brought my 2008 Hyundai Santa Fe in for 10K service and a mice nest was discovered under the engine cover. After paying to have it cleaned out it was recommended I put moth balls under the hood to repell the mice. Moth balls contain Napthalene which I believe is flammable. What should I use to repell the mice? ---
**Author:** ![Beadsandbeads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@Beadsandbeads](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Beadsandbeads)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mice-in-engine/20388/2 "2008-10-05T18:18:08Z")
Where do you park the car? ---
**Author:** ![Caddyman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/caddyman/32/23_2.png) [@Caddyman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caddyman)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mice-in-engine/20388/3 "2008-10-05T19:35:52Z")
Mothballs usually work if YOU can stand the smell (there is no fire hazard) or eliminate the mice with traps. Chipmunks are a more likely culprit. ---
**Author:** ![fdcbrandy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@fdcbrandy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/fdcbrandy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mice-in-engine/20388/4 "2008-10-06T23:22:51Z")
In driveway next to house. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mice-in-engine/20388/5 "2008-10-06T23:39:36Z")
I’d call the state Department of Agriculture office. They have experts in rhodent control and their services are free. ---
**Author:** ![admitted\_amateur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@admitted\_amateur](https://community.cartalk.com/u/admitted_amateur)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mice-in-engine/20388/6 "2008-10-06T23:45:27Z")
I’ve heard of using peppermint oil - I guess you’d want to spray it around in areas where they are likely to enter or nest. I can’t completely vouch for this suggestion, but I - sort of - tried it once. I had mice getting into the air cleaner box, chewing up the box and filter. I didn’t have any peppermint oil, but sort of smeared a bunch of some kind of body wash containing some peppermint oil around in the air box. I’m laughing as I write b/c I simply can’t believe that this worked - i.e. I’m not even convinced. But since then I haven’t had any mice in the air box. ---
**Author:** ![BarryNNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@BarryNNJ](https://community.cartalk.com/u/BarryNNJ)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 3:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mice-in-engine/20388/7 "2008-10-07T03:15:51Z")
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**Author:** ![mr\_josh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mr_josh/32/3008_2.png) [@mr\_josh](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mr_josh)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mice-in-engine/20388/8 "2008-10-07T17:19:37Z")
Gah, who would want to evict that little guy?!