GBOLT Posted March 10, 2011 Posted March 10, 2011 I woke up Saturday to discover mice had wrecked my harness in my Lexus gs400. Picked up pizza the night before and car ran fine, I can only guess the crawled up on the warm engine and proceeded to chew. Waiting to here if insurance will fix or total. I had never heard of this ever happening, but agent and dealer say it's more common than I would ever think. I just stood there and shook my head and thought - Really?
Hank Posted March 10, 2011 Posted March 10, 2011 (edited) I went to crank my Subaru WRX one cold morning and got nothing. I popped the hood and a mouse scurried off the top mounted intercooler. She left a bunch of little pink mice on the intercooler after she left. Turns out she chewed through the throttle position sensor and it freaked out the ECU. Well, I had to go to work so I broke out the soldering iron, heat shrink tubing and extension cord. Once I fixed the car I took care of the mice problem. It's like a mice penthouse. http://72.9.148.82/~rufridr/ruhroh/engine.jpg Edited March 10, 2011 by Hank
slngsht Posted March 10, 2011 Posted March 10, 2011 quite a few years ago a ground hog got under the hood of my biz partner's Buick Park Ave and chewed a bunch of wires on the left front... headlight wires and fiberoptic lines.
slngsht Posted March 10, 2011 Posted March 10, 2011 why is this under Politics, Religion and Controversy? :rofl:
slomove Posted March 10, 2011 Posted March 10, 2011 why is this under Politics, Religion and Controversy? :rofl: It might upset animal rights activists. Hank could just as well have walked to work for a few weeks.
bsimon Posted March 10, 2011 Posted March 10, 2011 why is this under Politics, Religion and Controversy? This and this explains why the little rodent creatures love to dine on car wiring. Make sure to thank an Enox.
BusaNostra Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 i went 2 weeks vacation. i remember hearing a chopping sound that morning when i turned my heater fan. a week after, there was an unbearable smell. i brought the car to the dealer to find where the bad smell r coming from. they found pieces of the mice at the heater box. to make the long story short, the dealer used gallons of disinfectant but nothing helps. ALLSTATE write off my one year old car. According to them, it's a health hazzard & no way i can tolerate the smell.
jlumba81 Posted March 12, 2011 Posted March 12, 2011 Suprised they didn't just replace the heaterbox and the contaminated ducting.
GBOLT Posted March 12, 2011 Author Posted March 12, 2011 Goes in Monday, we'll see what the damage is in a few days.
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