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Car Maintenance and How to Protect Your Car Engine from Mice!

09 April 2025
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If mice have successfully entered the car's engine compartment or there are indications that mice will enter the car's engine compartment. Below, Daihatsu suggests several things you can do to protect your car's engine from mice. 

Although it may be a bit complicated, there's no harm in trying. Many Daihatsu friends have successfully implemented this method. 

How to Protect Your Car Engine from Mice

A warm car engine is the best place for mice to warm their bodies during winter. If left unchecked, mice can nest there for a longer time. 

There will be mouse droppings, leftover food, urine smell, and a more dangerous risk, which is the cables in the engine compartment getting damaged. Here are some things you can do to repel and prevent mice from entering the hood. 

1. Keep the Engine Compartment Clean

It is essential for you to regularly maintain the cleanliness of the car's engine compartment. If not, mice will feel comfortable staying inside the engine compartment. This is because mice are pests that like to live in dirty places. 

2. Warm Up the Engine Regularly

Although during winter mice like to find nests in warm places, it doesn't mean they also like to find nests in hot places. A car engine that you frequently warm up will make mice reluctant to enter the engine compartment. It doesn't take long; just 3 to 5 minutes of warming up the engine is enough to gently repel mice. 

3. Install Low Voltage LED Lights

Mice not only like dirty places but also dark places. Try installing low voltage LED lights in the car's engine compartment to keep it bright even when the car is not in use. 

This choice of light is also quite energy-efficient, using less than 1 watt, compared to other electronic devices that are too energy-consuming to repel mice. 

4. Set Mouse Traps

Setting mouse traps is one effective method that must be tried. This is because mice can easily die when caught in traps. Conversely, we do not recommend feeding mice poison.

Besides the fact that mice are hard to kill even when consuming poison, when mice die, the smell of their carcasses will be difficult to eliminate. 

5. Spread Unpleasant Scents

Mice do not like unpleasant scents. Whether it comes from products you buy from pest control stores or from plants around your home. Such as peppermint scent, dog hair, cat hair, noni fruit smell, and others. 

Find some of these materials and spread them around the car engine to create an unpleasant aroma. 

That is how to protect your car engine from mice that you can apply. Even if your car looks clean and comfortable from the outside, no one knows the condition of the car's engine compartment if, as the owner, you do not maintain it regularly. The engine compartment is a vital aspect that must be considered, whether the car is used or not. 

It would be very unfortunate if the car you are using is a Daihatsu. A car that many families take pride in, providing a sense of comfort, safety, enjoyment, and beauty to the eye. However, it turns out that in your Daihatsu car's engine compartment, it has become a nest for mice. 

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