Similar situation in Vancouver, BC:
Green Cars!....................VW had this problem a few years back, IIRC................
Next thing you know, the DOT will be going after the auto manufacturers, insisting on recalls and upgrades for these inferior parts.
I have had cars that were old and the rats and squirrels would climb under the hood and chew the wires.
My neighbor had her headlights cut because of the rodents’ affinity for electrical wiring.
Seems they like the ‘feel’ of the insulation on their teeth................
It’s not just ‘soy-based’ wire coatings, and it’s been going on for years. Cars are shelters and rodents have to chew something, anything!
Don’t those rats know MSG is bad for you?
Where does she get all the coyote urine?
I wonder what store they go to in order to find coyote piss and who manufactures it? Sounds like that could be a dangerous business. Why wouldn’t cat piss suffice, other than the smell?
Tie a couple of Tomcat poison blocks in your engine compartment. They’ll go after those first.
Auto dealers ought to run a promotion: Free coyote pee with a new car!
I had a car that squirrels chewed through a major wiring harness to the tune of $4500. Insurance paid for it but the rates went up significantly after that.
Next they’ll make new car bodies from milk bone byproducts and you’ll have all the dogs in the neighborhood chewing the fenders off.
She needs to kill a couple of the coyotes and strap their carcasses to her hood and trunk.
Toilet paper tubes with mothballs.
Put a few in a tube and tape the ends a little bit with duct tape.
Put them away from the firewall where vent system can pull fumes into the car.
It works for me.
As a mechanic I often find dog or cat kibble in a air filter housing box, sometimes it is enough to block the incoming air.
Look for mouse turds on top of your engine too as evidence that they hang out there.
They like all wires and even hoses too, not just soy based, whatever that is.
They will build nests under engine covers too.
Similar situation in Vancouver, BC:
This is a common problem for RV owners who store their rigs between use.
She need to take a bottle of volcano hot sauce and spray all her wiring.
My neighbor’s cat was famous for chewing their printer cable to pieces. Not sure why. Funny, it was always the printer cable, left the others alone.
Just a tip: all the D-Con & Tomcat pellet bait for rats & mice have been replaced & diluted & no longer work well. You can still purchase the real stuff at agricultural stores like Blain’s Farm & Fleet through mail order if there’s not one near you.
Spray Ammonia/water around tires and under the car; moth balls in a small bag placed in the engine compartment are also deterrents. Rats have eaten several wires in the Buick. $300 to repair the first incident. Others were repaired by my guy for free.
I’ve had ground hogs completely disable two vehicles beyond ever starting again, that is without a complete new wiring harness; and one that could be started, but after repair left a continuous check engine lite one.
Needless to say, ground hogs are shot on sight.