What a day
 

Yesterday was an awesome day. lol It started off with hearing my dog in front of my house barking. When I went outside I seen he had encountered the mailman. Its a friendly great dane, normally. Anyways the guy said he got bit on his shoulder. It looked like a scratch. He was mad but only concerned that it had its rabies vaccination. Then I decide to break the Z out of the garage. When I start it up it cranks and cranks but doesnt start, I open the hood and find a sock , plastic bag, and newspaper clippings sitting between the engine and the cold air intake. They've been chewing on the wires that run along the intake manifold. Only one bare wire on each side is actually showing. They just ate the wrapping. I do see some rat sh#t on the plastic underpanel. As of now the car will start but is missing. I took the intakes off and looked around in that area. And also the manifold cover. Im just wondering if there was a wire underneath that could have been chewed on that I wont be able to see without removing the plastic.

I submitted a claim through geico as I heard they will cover such incidents...waiting for a response.


:shakes head:

I suppose rodent infestation is a good argument to drive rather than store your Z all winter. Sorry for the bad day.

That's about a crazy story or day as stated. I'm sorry for you. My girlfriends car had a rats nest in before when I went to change the oil. Pretty crazy. Theres always tomorrow though.:tup:

Fun day for you. Good luck with your claim. Maybe set up some rat traps or something.

I officially have a case of the creeps. :eek:

:eek:

That's a bummer man.

its looking better lol Geico has a tow truck coming to pick the car up in the morning. Instead of using my tax return for tires and springs, ill be getting tires and an insurance deductable :) lmao

no pics?

Use moth balls, they hate them sh**s

no pics lol Couldn't bring myself to take any

Rodents! They made a nest in my wife's car (she ended up barbequeing one of them), ate through some wiring in the shifter of my parents' subaru, and ate through the strings of my hammock so I fell on my a$$ when I first put it up last summer.

Looks like we could all use a few cats to patrol our cars.

yes buy a cat lol

good idea lol since the dog only protects me from the mail man

Cats are stupid. You need a hawk or eagle.

:bowrofl:

I don't have rodents so far but this is one reason why I stopped using car covers and pop the hoods often to ck during hibernation. Mothballs seems to have only limited effect. I had crushed mothballs under my trash bag on trash day and they still tore a hole in the bags.

So I suppose rats like Nissan wiring just like Honda's. I will have to replace the knock sensor wire harness on my girls Accord this week due rats chewing the wire. Sucks cause the whole intake manifold has to come off. What's funny is that the new harness is wrapped with rat tape.

^ must be a growing problem lol

Rats are a strange kind of problem; they eat wiring. What kind of wiring provides any nutrition? If anything they'll just die of heavy metal poisoning.

lol

Since 2002 soy has been used as a partial substitute for petroleum based products in cars. Soy oil is used in making the rubber insulator jacket because it's more environmentally friendly and make the rubber more stretchable. It also makes it more edible.

Denver International Airport has even had problems with rabbits eating the wiring out of cars parked in long term parking. 9NEWS.com | Denver | Colorado's Online News Leader | Rabbits going after cars in popular DIA parking lot

:icon17: I think it's due to there teeth grow so fast they have to keep filing them down.

yea i seen there teeth grow like 4 inches a year and on average chew on **** like this for about 30 minutes a day

This is probably a stupid question but why not jacket them with silicone? Is it too soft/not resilient enough? My first guess would be that it's too expensive.

You'd think they'd find something more ... tasty to chew on.
Also, SPOHN, 1000 posts? Nice.

got an update from the dealership today...they ordered a new wiring harness because the original was chewed on and unable to complete the circuit...they have her stripped down to the heads and are tearing out the dash maybe ill have it back by august lol

Don't worry schrack, I hear new wiring harnesses add something like 20 WHP! :tup:

You'll have her back before you know it.

schrack- damn that sucks. :( so are you going to own a few cats new? :icon17:

no cats yet lol the dcon has fixed the problem they said it tastes better than the z :tiphat:

well....i got the car back today ! all nice and clean

the bill came out to about $2800.00 between a new wiring harness,spark plugs, and some hoses. I only had to pay $500 as insurance covered the rest. Also went and got the new tires mounted :happydance:

^^ congrats on the return schrack! now enjoy. :tup:

Also drive it more often. Then the rats won't squat in your engine bay.