2017 Prius Prime with $15,000 rodent damage!?!

I'm only an hour from Plattsburgh and I hope the mice that tried moving into my garage don't go for the battery pack like what happened to you. I did have a nest up in my HVAC blower and della was kind enough to pull it out and replace a cross bar that broke in the process without charging me.

Good luck with the new battery. How do you plan to keep the mice out?

 

Sorry about the damages. I wanted to just add my own experience with small field mice entering a car and building a nest. I have a 2017 Prime same as you. I had forgot about the candy that I dropped in the backseat for a couple of days. Upon discovering the rear seat belt being chewed up and some small wet spots on the arm rests, I started looking for more signs of mice/rodent infestations.

Then I saw it. The chewed up candy and mice poop. Just a few. Not a lot.

So I went about trying to flush this mouse out of my car. And I tried everything. From blasting the heater, blasting the music with the doors open, and eventually I settled upon the worse trap of them all.

Sticky mouse traps with peanuts/nuts/peanut butter as bait. Didn't work.

What did work was when I laid out some water in a small bowl surrounded by those sticky traps. (Because everybody needs a drink). And that was that. Disposed of the mouse and cleaned up the car.

edit:
I am now a mouse/rat trapping expert. My family has another car in long term storage at the house that always receives small rodent visitors.

Well no more. I put out a bucket trap stocked with peanut butter and sunflower seeds. This bucket water trap is a rat/mouse war criminal. Over Winter it has taken out at least 20+ mice/field mice looking for warmth in our garage.

Never had problems again after that.