cayenne pepper ftwHonda has the same problem and even sells a special rodent resident wire wrap tape. It has the ingredient Capsaicin which is the "hot" in hot chili peppers. Expensive but if it works it's better than having to pay to repair damages done.
Toyota Wiring insulation failed on friends car, is this happening to others?
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Oh Jesus a Marder, I hate them little basta... I have seen them a lot of damage in no time. One day I was working on a car, I turned around and the little bugger was watching me, like the second I was done he could go right in and have lunch again. I fixed his good dealing backside with high voltage metal plates, you should have heard the racket when he stepped on them, it was like a shrieking pin ball machine.30 minutes is plenty. Quite a few got visited in a supermarket parking lot.
But here it's typically not mice or rats.
How Cute Ferret-Like Animals Cause Germany $65 Million In Car Damages Each Year
Don’t be fooled by that cute little fluffball in the picture; mention the word “Marder” to any German, and you’ll send shivers down their spine. Marder is the German word for Marten, a little furry animal that crawls into cars’ engine bays and wreaks havoc on coolant hoses, spark plug wires and...
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I thought that rodents wanted a warm place to nest, which is not going to be under the hood of a vehicle that's been sitting for a long time.
Soy based insulation is what's having a rodent issue. I have rodent and varmit issues here in the country, but they are not eating the wiring on my pre soy based insulation cars.
Question is why is it not camera shy?30 minutes is plenty. Quite a few got visited in a supermarket parking lot.
But here it's typically not mice or rats.
they're incredibly shy, don't know how they took that pic.
they use it to store food aswell, found many a dead pigeon under there. And they use the hood insulation to make nests. And the windscreen washer fluid to get drunk.
Well windshield washer fluid has methanol in it not ethanol so…more like to get poisoned!
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Cayenne pepper and peppermint oil FTW.
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Hold it rat there!
It’s been a couple weeks since I opened the hood, but then, I’m only driving once a week, less than 10 miles. I find this: Luckily it looks like nothing was chewed. It’s been about a year since I sprinkled cayenne pepper around. So I gave it a good coating.
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Oh Jesus a Marder, I hate them little basta... I have seen them a lot of damage in no time. One day I was working on a car, I turned around and the little bugger was watching me, like the second I was done he could go right in and have lunch again. I fixed his good dealing backside with high voltage metal plates, you should have heard the racket when he stepped on them, it was like a shrieking pin ball machine.
How Cute Ferret-Like Animals Cause Germany $65 Million In Car Damages Each Year
Don’t be fooled by that cute little fluffball in the picture; mention the word “Marder” to any German, and you’ll send shivers down their spine. Marder is the German word for Marten, a little furry animal that crawls into cars’ engine bays and wreaks havoc on coolant hoses, spark plug wires and...
I've installed systems like that aswell. Haven't heard the marders, but I've heard mechanics that touched them.
