I had a rat move into the area in front of the frunk tub. NOLA Tesla
Service Center found the nest while checking a bad wire. You know, the wire
that the rat chewed through. Just before we received our M3 we had a Subaru
Forester. It developed a problem that made the ICE engine run poorly so
puttered (yea, the engine was running very poorly) to a nearby auto repair
shop. They said that it was a wiring problem that was beyond their
capability so I had the car taken to the Subaru dealership. So they said
that rats had completely destroyed the car wiring. At 125,000 it was
totaled, by rats. We are invaded by rats every time that sugarcane is
harvested from the land just south of us.
I’ve been told that rats and mice like to chew on cars made in Japan
because the wires used in Japanese cars are covered with plastic that is
made using some soybean component. Don’t know if that is true, but the
wiring in my Japanese made car was destroyed while the wiring in my Dodge
pickup and my Ford truck were not chewed up.
We now put cotton balls that are soaked with peppermint oil in
numerous areas of the car. For one such area I have to remove the frunk tub
so that I have access to areas in front of it.
Bob Keeland
On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 12:26 PM Josh Landess via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org>
wrote:
> good story. I had one or more mice in my Tesla Model S, and it did only
> a little damage I'm aware of, but yikes, critters can indeed do some
> damage. I seem to have addressed it with a combination of sonic
> devices, and humane traps.
>
> Josh
>
> On 7/17/2023 5:08 PM, Bill Dennis via EV wrote:
> > Besides an electric motor's not making enough heat to warm a car
> interior, I just discovered another disadvantage to that lack of warmth.
> Every morning this week, I woke up to find our garage ransacked.
> Everything knocked over. Screens mauled. Couldn't figure out how whatever
> critter was doing it was getting in there--until I saw some chewed-up
> insulation on the floor and realized that a badger had taken up residence
> in the engine compartment of our Chevy Volt! That little bugger had been
> riding all over town with me for days, just playing it cool in his
> cubbyhole near the firewall. I had a heck of a time getting him to vacate,
> but I was finally able to poke and prod him out of there. I hope he didn't
> do too much damage.
> >
> > Bill
> >
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