Under hood rat damage to 2025 Canyon

[dishdude]

One of my guys in New Jersey is driving one my latest fleet purchases, one of several 2025 Canyons. No problems with any of them up until this morning when he says the check engine light came on and sent this picture. Is that a PCV line? I am not familiar with the under hood of these. Looks like the wire loom in the background was chewed up as well. Can't image what isn't shown in this picture.

 

[grasscutter]

Looks like one of those plastic tubes GM uses because they're cheaper than a rubber hose.

 

[dogememe]

Looks like one of those plastic tubes GM uses because they're cheaper than a rubber hose.

Because mice can’t chew rubber? Lol

To OP, bummer that happened. May have to take it to the dealer and involve insurance as needed.

 

[dnewton3]

Rodents can do a lot of damage.
A friend of mine recently had to repair his F-250 6.2L because squirrels got up and chewed clean through some wiring under hood.

 

[Nukeman7]

That looks more like squirrel damage on the hard plastic. They gnaw on wood and plastic to keep their teeth from overgrowing. Mice and rats typically chew on wiring and softer material. My neighborhood has been dealing with squirrel damage for the past several years and that looks quite familiar. Applying repellents like mint oil and cinnamon extract help, but don't fully prevent them from returning.

 

[4wd]

One of my guys in New Jersey is driving one my latest fleet purchases, one of several 2025 Canyons. No problems with any of them up until this morning when he says the check engine light came on and sent this picture. Is that a PCV line? I am not familiar with the under hood of these. Looks like the wire loom in the background was chewed up as well. Can't image what isn't shown in this picture.

That’s sad - I had one get inside a company car years ago - and it chewed every place that a hand had touched - steering wheel - door handles etc …

 

[BC1]

Looks like a purge line but I have not seen one with metal inside. Have your guy check the hose farther back in the picture. That one looks bad also.

 

[Slick]

That looks more like squirrel damage on the hard plastic. They gnaw on wood and plastic to keep their teeth from overgrowing. Mice and rats typically chew on wiring and softer material. My neighborhood has been dealing with squirrel damage for the past several years and that looks quite familiar. Applying repellents like mint oil and cinnamon extract help, but don't fully prevent them from returning.

I agree as it looks like possible squirrel damage. We had some signs of broken nut shells under hood but no dammage. Wanting to get rid of the rodent before any damage we put a few rat traps near the area we saw the broken nut shells. Next morning one trap was sprung, no mouse/rat but in the trap was with what we were sure was squirrel hair between the tripped bail and wood base.

Squirrel must have thought he should play somewhere else as he has not returned. We also found broken nut shells and stored nuts upon further inspection, so likely he was also using the engine compartment as a covered meal facility with food storage.

 

[AZjeff]

Well you know it's not a pack rat in NJ. A friend here had one chew up his Tundra and the mechanic who fixed it recommended one of these:
Rid A Rat He never had another problem.

 

[facility1]

get a couple cats.

 

[grasscutter]

Because mice can’t chew rubber? Lol

To OP, bummer that happened. May have to take it to the dealer and involve insurance as needed.

No. Because plastic is a few pennies cheaper than rubber and saves the manufacturer $5.00 over a production run of 100,000 vehicles.

 

[grasscutter]

Thank you for your worthless contributions to this thread.

Replace that plastic tube with a section of rubber hose and you'll be good to go.

 

[dishdude]

Damage so far is $1,700

 

[facility1]

get a couple of those poison chunks for mice that you normally put inside the kid proof plastic box traps, and put the chunk blocks under the hood in some crevace in engine compartment , and distribute some around the garage floor by wall perimeter.

 

[The Critic]

Damage so far is $1,700

Do you manage your own fleet or do you use one of the fleet companies?

 

[Pablo]

Me too.

@Zee09 has the hook-up for rodent repellent that actually works

 

[Pablo]

These work for me.

You have to go nuclear. Don't mess around

 

[dishdude]

Do you manage your own fleet or do you use one of the fleet companies?

We use Holman.