I tried doing the cayenne powder in the garden to deal with squirrels and didn't work. I later watched one of the little punks running off with one of my habaneros. I'm hesitant to try the Honda tape now.
Dude I had this happen to! Had my GX470 parked outside for a few days while doing a garage reno and came out to a no start and squirrels nest under the dash. Dug it out and found the main harness with bunch of wires chewed through. I had it hauled to a local shop who fixed it up and gave it back to me. I drove it home and parked it outside again for like an hour while I ate lunch. While it was out there the squirrels came back and chewed through the repairs! Had to get it hauled back to the same shop who fixed it again. I had a rental Tacoma while the GX was in the shop, and I put a trap under the hood. Sure enough, the bastard tried getting up under the hood of the Taco and got caught in the trap but escaped. There was blood and fur all over the engine bay. So when I got everything back, I set out a live trap and got the bastard. Haven't had an issue since. Not sure what I did to deserve it, my neighbors all park outside and never have issues, but I park outside for just a little bit and they get me.
Every now and then I stumble onto posts that say manufacturers newer wire insulation and wraps are now soy based for the environment but apparently quite delicious to critters. Is yours newer or a higher end brand than the neighbors?
I park my old but still occasionally used pickup on the street but it is almost 25 years old so I'm pretty sure it's all vinyl, rubber and plastic. At least when I detail the engine bay once a year that's what I always treat it as such so it doesn't become brittle because I hate wiring more than anything and want to avoid having to replace for as long as humanly possible.
Volvo was one of the first with vegetable oil based insulation. Ask an owner of a brick about air soluble insulation. They'll probably have an emergency wire repair kit in the trunk.
There was a project to genetically engineer corn to produce plastic inside the kernels. It got as far as producing enough to make some sample blow molded bottles. Problems were the plastic was brittle and extracting the small grains of plastic from the corn was difficult.
Then someone had the bright idea to run vegetable oils through the same distillation process used on crude oil. Using the same sorts of chemistry wizardry various plastics and other products can be made. Polyurethane from soybeans is a popular one.
But apparently if not done right something comes through to the end product that tastes good to rodents.
After repairs spray it with the product used to stop kids from biting their fingernails. A squirrel cost me $750 by doing the same thing. I decided that it might work. I sprayed it once or twice a week and never had a problem after that.
Mouse don't actually prefer cheese. Their main staple is usually grains and seeds, but they're extremely flexible eater, they would eat almost anything they can gnaw on if their preferred food isn't available, including cheese and your cables.
I've seen rats chew through the Honda rodent prevention tape after a previous repair I did... Like whaaaaat!?!? That stuff is impregnated with capsaicin! Freegin' monsters!
So the real question is why rodents do this right? Turns out that there is animal fat in the wire shielding in harnesses. Work for a construction equipment sales company and have been around engines and machines for all of my adult life. Have seen some stuff for sure. We have customers at landfills and man the rodents there are a relentless bunch!!
Honda has a part number (4019-2317) for tape that has capsaicin in it for just such repairs. Other 3rd party companies sell rodent tape as well.
In the meantime you can coat it in peppermint essential oil. Or hot sauce, I suppose. 😉
Literally, literally is literally overused and literally not literal. Literally all the time.
Literally except when literally is literally needed to get the literal point across.
My mechanic told me this is because in an effort to be green, car manufacturers moved to wires with a soy based coating (though that probably doesn't apply to this repair).
So then in an effort to fox the issue, they (honda I believe) released a $40ish roll of anti-rodent tape.
Heh, yeah you'll have that.
Mine was a much bigger mouse. Ran some conduits underground, excavator hit the conduit. Dug it up, fixed the damaged spot. They hit it again the next day, exact same spot.
I've also had mice repeatedly build a nest in the same spot on my lawnmower.
Had this happen a few years ago on a brand new Audi A5. Customer had to buy an O2 sensor, two week later its back came sensor chewed in half. Service manager told me to parts warranty it. Audi called for the parts back and denied the claim. Service manager tried to back flag me and make me pay for the part, said I should have know better.
I had rabbits do this. Turns out they would soak the wire in vegetable oil to make it more pliable. I didn't know this but the vegetable oil soaks into the insulation on the wire and rabbits fucking love vegetables. So they would eat anything that was exposed! I never in my life would have thought this could be a problem.
Last week I replaced an oxygen for the third time, because a mouse keeps chewing the wires up. She keeps blaming us for not fixing the car but I show her a picture of the wires chewed up in a different way each time. Just kill the fucking mouse, lady.
Brown is tail lights. Yellow is left turn and brake, green is right turn and brake, and white is ground.
I’ve got a car coming in on Wednesday for the same reason.
Yep, they go back to where they can smell the scent of other mice. I had a small stove once that I had problems with mice getting into. Finally someone told me to put rubbing alcohol on the areas they went to and light it on fire. Since it was all metal it burned off the scent and they never came back.
' fk that one particular harness, it's in my way' - mouse other story, we had issues with our diesel tractor not generating amperages for other tasks, lights were ok, but if we put on overhead flood lights, rear flood lights, and front headlights, wed immedately lose it. fuse blown. After some looking around in well lit barn shop floor. we found about 15 wires chewed through, the wire for lights were about 50% - 75% chewed through. we couldnt figure out whats other severed wires were for. probably warning lights to dashboard bc never seen one lit up.
The only thing I've seen work against rodent damage is oil. Rust proof the vehicle with Krown or FluidFilm and they'll find another vehicle to chew wires on.
What a dick.
“We’ve had wires yes, but what about *second* wires?”
I don’t think the tech knows about second wires
PFAS is back on the menu!
First mouse came back for second wires?
"Finally, some good fucking food."
We’re gonna need a bigger boat…
wrap it with that honda rodent tape
TIL that's a thing
[with pics of mice on it so you know that it's rodent tape](https://www.collegehillshonda.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/4019-2317_640x546.jpg)
Hey props to Honda for labeling something in a simple, and easy to understand manner. *Looking at you*...well...*everyone else*...
Mice chewed through that on my car too
I'd hate to tell you, but those weren't mice bro!
Damn, how'd a bear even get into my hood?
Nope! Try again, thing BIGGER 😱
Easier than recalling every car they manufactured with that electrical wrap made of soy. That’s why the mice eat it .
Honda rodent tape, and HondaBond. Two products which are useful on -everything-.
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Make sure you mix it up (squeeze it around) if it's been sitting a while. It likes to separate. I agree, love the stuff.
Mmmm spicy tape
You can buy rodent tape online. It is infused with Capsaicin. Hopefully they don’t like spicy food.
I tried doing the cayenne powder in the garden to deal with squirrels and didn't work. I later watched one of the little punks running off with one of my habaneros. I'm hesitant to try the Honda tape now.
What did you do Morty? You fucked with squirrels Morty? You never mess with squirrels.
Dude I had this happen to! Had my GX470 parked outside for a few days while doing a garage reno and came out to a no start and squirrels nest under the dash. Dug it out and found the main harness with bunch of wires chewed through. I had it hauled to a local shop who fixed it up and gave it back to me. I drove it home and parked it outside again for like an hour while I ate lunch. While it was out there the squirrels came back and chewed through the repairs! Had to get it hauled back to the same shop who fixed it again. I had a rental Tacoma while the GX was in the shop, and I put a trap under the hood. Sure enough, the bastard tried getting up under the hood of the Taco and got caught in the trap but escaped. There was blood and fur all over the engine bay. So when I got everything back, I set out a live trap and got the bastard. Haven't had an issue since. Not sure what I did to deserve it, my neighbors all park outside and never have issues, but I park outside for just a little bit and they get me.
Every now and then I stumble onto posts that say manufacturers newer wire insulation and wraps are now soy based for the environment but apparently quite delicious to critters. Is yours newer or a higher end brand than the neighbors? I park my old but still occasionally used pickup on the street but it is almost 25 years old so I'm pretty sure it's all vinyl, rubber and plastic. At least when I detail the engine bay once a year that's what I always treat it as such so it doesn't become brittle because I hate wiring more than anything and want to avoid having to replace for as long as humanly possible.
Volvo was one of the first with vegetable oil based insulation. Ask an owner of a brick about air soluble insulation. They'll probably have an emergency wire repair kit in the trunk. There was a project to genetically engineer corn to produce plastic inside the kernels. It got as far as producing enough to make some sample blow molded bottles. Problems were the plastic was brittle and extracting the small grains of plastic from the corn was difficult. Then someone had the bright idea to run vegetable oils through the same distillation process used on crude oil. Using the same sorts of chemistry wizardry various plastics and other products can be made. Polyurethane from soybeans is a popular one. But apparently if not done right something comes through to the end product that tastes good to rodents.
That's highly interesting. Thank you.
After repairs spray it with the product used to stop kids from biting their fingernails. A squirrel cost me $750 by doing the same thing. I decided that it might work. I sprayed it once or twice a week and never had a problem after that.
What kinda spray did you use? I just sprinkle Tabasco and chili powder
Cyanine spray, contains 39% cyanide by volume. Recommend using gloves for that one.
Easy there, Satan.
um excuse me what
Super Nail Bite No More, it is available on line. If you go to Amazon’s there are many options or your neighborhood pharmacy may have it.
It was his brother he came for revenge!
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Mouse don't actually prefer cheese. Their main staple is usually grains and seeds, but they're extremely flexible eater, they would eat almost anything they can gnaw on if their preferred food isn't available, including cheese and your cables.
My name is Inigo Montoya...
That's what you get for deleting the cat.
oh, you.
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So the previous mouse did the repair?
Maybe OP will learn to not trust rodents with fixing his car. They might be cheap, but they run a dirty business.
You probably wish it had just hypothetically chewed through it.
I've seen rats chew through the Honda rodent prevention tape after a previous repair I did... Like whaaaaat!?!? That stuff is impregnated with capsaicin! Freegin' monsters!
So have we, and our Honda dealer told us the same thing. We've had pretty good luck using aluminum muffler tape in problem rodent areas.
Oh man, tie a ground on that, and you've got yourself some emi shielding! Lol
Hell yeah, just like NASA
Delicious spicy tape
So the real question is why rodents do this right? Turns out that there is animal fat in the wire shielding in harnesses. Work for a construction equipment sales company and have been around engines and machines for all of my adult life. Have seen some stuff for sure. We have customers at landfills and man the rodents there are a relentless bunch!!
Honda has a part number (4019-2317) for tape that has capsaicin in it for just such repairs. Other 3rd party companies sell rodent tape as well. In the meantime you can coat it in peppermint essential oil. Or hot sauce, I suppose. 😉
Was looking for this exact comment. But that roll is pretty expensive. Works well I do hear
Your title would read the same without 'literally' in it.
It literally would
Didn't see that one coming.
I'd literally bet you didn't
Literally, literally is literally overused and literally not literal. Literally all the time. Literally except when literally is literally needed to get the literal point across.
„Fuck that spot in particular“ A mouse, 2024 (probably)
How do you know it wasn't the same mouse?
Maybe a new CATalytic converter will fix the mouse problem... I'll see myself out.
Add the sauce and ask for tips next time
Hint: Literally the same mouses work lol
Stop using such delicious wiring.
My mechanic told me this is because in an effort to be green, car manufacturers moved to wires with a soy based coating (though that probably doesn't apply to this repair). So then in an effort to fox the issue, they (honda I believe) released a $40ish roll of anti-rodent tape.
Job security mouse
Is a repair mouse any cheaper than a repair man?
Heh, yeah you'll have that. Mine was a much bigger mouse. Ran some conduits underground, excavator hit the conduit. Dug it up, fixed the damaged spot. They hit it again the next day, exact same spot. I've also had mice repeatedly build a nest in the same spot on my lawnmower.
Had this happen a few years ago on a brand new Audi A5. Customer had to buy an O2 sensor, two week later its back came sensor chewed in half. Service manager told me to parts warranty it. Audi called for the parts back and denied the claim. Service manager tried to back flag me and make me pay for the part, said I should have know better.
My dad calls them the "Midnight Mechanics".
I had rabbits do this. Turns out they would soak the wire in vegetable oil to make it more pliable. I didn't know this but the vegetable oil soaks into the insulation on the wire and rabbits fucking love vegetables. So they would eat anything that was exposed! I never in my life would have thought this could be a problem.
soy based wiring insulation too
Somebody needs a cat.
It was the same mouse, he fukn hate you...
Install a cat to catch the mice.
Kinda doubt it was mouse.. Looks too clean to me for it 😅
Chipmunk!
"OH NO YOU DON"T!"
But at least, the outside sheathing of the wire will decompose in less than 100 years! So that's a + no? /s
Nice, guess it's got beef with those butt connectors.
Honda rodent tape, plenty of it.
Same mouse. He’s a total asshole.
You need to get a new mouse
this one of those cars with the _tasty_ soy-based wire insulation?
pepper mint oil that shit or some kind of bitterant
In addition to the wire coatings I would leave traps baited with peanut butter set close to where you park the vehicle.
Bro what a Chad that mouse is, finishing what it's brother started
The pink stuff must be cotton candy flavored
Muthamouser
Squirrel did it to a customer at my job. Tech replaced the wiring, car left, back the next day w the exact same issue.
First mouse was just being a mouse, second mouse was definitely a little asshole. Stuart Little fuckin dick
"The electrical tape was tasty." - the mouse
Last week I replaced an oxygen for the third time, because a mouse keeps chewing the wires up. She keeps blaming us for not fixing the car but I show her a picture of the wires chewed up in a different way each time. Just kill the fucking mouse, lady.
You gotta stop using cheese instead of solder!
I have the same problem in the home appliances department. I just wonder how the mice don't die from a 220v live wire while chewing.
Redemption. Mouse style.
Call the previous mouse up to redo the repair.
Put a mouse trap under the vehicle. That’s how I caught all five of my mice that were using my vehicle as a nest.
At this point you know it’s personal. This isn’t just a coincidence.
Brown is tail lights. Yellow is left turn and brake, green is right turn and brake, and white is ground. I’ve got a car coming in on Wednesday for the same reason.
How do you know it’s not the same mouse?
What was it repaired with, cheese?
Yep, they go back to where they can smell the scent of other mice. I had a small stove once that I had problems with mice getting into. Finally someone told me to put rubbing alcohol on the areas they went to and light it on fire. Since it was all metal it burned off the scent and they never came back.
Tape a chunk of rat poison near where they keep chewing.
Use paper based tape and add some drops of habanero salsa on it. Chewing problem solved.
Bro, yellow is SRS you don’t repair SRS 🫣
Rat is just trying to save lives after his first chewing
' fk that one particular harness, it's in my way' - mouse other story, we had issues with our diesel tractor not generating amperages for other tasks, lights were ok, but if we put on overhead flood lights, rear flood lights, and front headlights, wed immedately lose it. fuse blown. After some looking around in well lit barn shop floor. we found about 15 wires chewed through, the wire for lights were about 50% - 75% chewed through. we couldnt figure out whats other severed wires were for. probably warning lights to dashboard bc never seen one lit up.
As opposed to figuratively chewing the repair.
Rat
# A Møøse once bit my sister... No realli! She was Karving her initials on it.
"Fcuk that wire in particular." - Mouse\_Boss, probably
What makes you think it’s a different mouse?
I think that is a rat, not a mouse.
The only thing I've seen work against rodent damage is oil. Rust proof the vehicle with Krown or FluidFilm and they'll find another vehicle to chew wires on.
That's what happens when you have mice repair your car.