I had a customer who had the wiring eaten out of his Bentley. They called the car a total loss. They only used this house for a couple of months in the winter. They had 6-8 months to eat before it was discovered.
The newer, biodegradable insulation is not only attractive to rodents but it breaks down when exposed to a few year worth of heat cycles so all these newer cars are going to be worthless scrap in a few decades.
Don't expect to find them as collector vehicles 50 years from now.
Yup, I recently just got rid of my Mercedes Benz, last winter during the pathetic house arrests (lockdowns) I hadn't used it for about 1 week. I open the trunk (boot) to find the whole lot destroyed, with a big hole in the inner lining of the wing.
So I called the insurance company to tell them, he said "err have you looked in the engine compartment sir" - I hadn't, but I did when on the phone and there was carnage, with rat shit everywhere!
He explained that Mercedes Benz use a soy product to coat the air con wiring, and rats love it! Then once inside they go to town on anything they fancy.
All in the name of muh climate change you understand.
I had a customer who had the wiring eaten out of his Bentley. They called the car a total loss. They only used this house for a couple of months in the winter. They had 6-8 months to eat before it was discovered.
This happened to us, the electrician said that the rats like sharpening their teeth on the covering.
The newer, biodegradable insulation is not only attractive to rodents but it breaks down when exposed to a few year worth of heat cycles so all these newer cars are going to be worthless scrap in a few decades.
Don't expect to find them as collector vehicles 50 years from now.
Last summer both our cars died while driving and it was due to holes chewed by rodents through soy air filters.
Yup, I recently just got rid of my Mercedes Benz, last winter during the pathetic house arrests (lockdowns) I hadn't used it for about 1 week. I open the trunk (boot) to find the whole lot destroyed, with a big hole in the inner lining of the wing.
So I called the insurance company to tell them, he said "err have you looked in the engine compartment sir" - I hadn't, but I did when on the phone and there was carnage, with rat shit everywhere!
He explained that Mercedes Benz use a soy product to coat the air con wiring, and rats love it! Then once inside they go to town on anything they fancy.
All in the name of muh climate change you understand.
Did your insurance company pay out?
Yes eventually, it took about 3 months to fix it all though, no spares due to the coof was the oft used cry from the dealership!
This has been a problem for over a decade
This is nothing new, Mercedes and some German makes had this issue in the early 2000s
Put rat poison in your garage....
I'm about 10 miles from the Kentucky speedway and helped build it in 1998 our company was there from start to finish, sad to see it go to waste