I have great success with dryer sheets in all the cabinets and battery compartments.....the clean smell seems to drive them off.  

> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 19:52:24 -0700
> From: scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM
> Subject: Re: mouse profing
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> 
> I don't think there is a way to keep them out really..
> not a practical reliable one.
>   I have always kept some of those yellow boxes of mouse poison around ..
> and put those little boxes in  nooks ..say behind a rear tail light.
> 
> I do this in sheds, shops etc...like under a workbench somewhere..
> never see any dead bodies or anything  .  It works.
> 
> 
> On 8/6/2012 4:50 PM, Geneva Saint-Amour wrote:
> > If they are dancing on engine cover, you should turn down the music.
> > And get a cat!
> >
> >
> >> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 16:23:21 -0700
> >> From: wyndotte@GOT.NET
> >> Subject: mouse profing
> >> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >>
> >> Does anybody know where mice get into the Westy? I can see from their
> >> dirty little footprints) they spend a lot of time dancing on the left
> >> top side of my engine cover, but there doesn't appear to be enough
> >> space for them to crawl up along the ac hoses, but once there they
> >> follow the hoses up along the back of the cabinet.
> >> Has anyone solved this problem?
> >> Thanks for this informative forum.
> >> Dav
> >