Squirrels are smart enough not to eat the seeds, but they won't realize that the mixture is on the wires until they try to chew them. The caustic fumes will come right through the air vents.Īs I said in my original post, you mash up the chili peppers in some olive oil and brush it onto the wires in the engine. Quite different than soaking a rag in pure ammonia, then forgetting it's there under the hood while driving. When people use ammonia to clean, they dilute it a lot in a large bucket of water. Which chiles did you use? How did you use them? In what situations did chiles work for you? Chiles also failed there to keep squirrels from chewing new holes through soffet & facia boards, while ammonia on rags worked very well. We've also tried both chiles & ammonia to keep squirrels out of attic eves. Unfortunately, the chiles did not work for poptart_22. Ammonia's odor provides adequate early warning of its presence, but ammonia also causes olfactory fatigue or adaptation, reducing awareness of one's prolonged exposure at low concentrations.įortunately, for the 100's of millions who use ammonia to clean their home's floors, as described earlier posts, ammonia is just an irritant. Inhalation of lower concentrations can cause coughing, and nose and throat irritation.
This can cause bronchiolar and alveolar edema, and airway destruction resulting in respiratory distress or failure. Exposure to high concentrations of ammonia in air causes immediate burning of the nose, throat and respiratory tract. Inhalation: Ammonia is irritating and corrosive. What are the immediate health effects of ammonia exposure? I don't think that breathing ammonia while driving can be considered a 'good thing'!Īt least the smell of hot peppers won't kill a human being while driving! That may work, but most people would forget to remove the rags before driving away, and that would be extremely hazardous to the humans! The ammonia smell goes away fairly quickly when the rag is removed, while pepper stink (like curry) would stick to the plastic surfaces and metal surfaces, including your cabin air plastic vent tubing for months. Then think of how long the ammonia smell persists after washing a floor. Think what it's like going into an apartment that reeks of curry spices for months after Indians have lived there. The Ammonia stink does not persist when we remove the rags, and we can just remove the ammonia-soaked rag(s) from under the hood when we want to drive the car.įor those people who are convinced that stinking up the inside of your motor with peppers would somehow be a good thing Imagine having pepper or RAID saturated air blowing out the vents into our face. blown into the inside of the car when the A/C or heat is on. I really cannot imagine breathing pepper smell, or RAID, etc. The ammonia stink evaporates and fills the engine compartment with a strong smell that keeps the squirrels out, WITHOUT contaminating wiring etc with nasty pepper that is not good for future mechanics.
Ammonia on a rag, or 2 rags keeps all the critters out.
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