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KARNUT Senior Enthusiast

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I have a few acres and surrounded by woods. Two vehicles live outside. I have a few stray cats. A couple like it under my vehicles. I don’t discourage that.

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SILVER SLED Senior Enthusiast

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Now think of all those new vehicles without chips sitting in fields waiting for chips. 

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Transient Senior Enthusiast

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Happened to a couple neighbors with F150s a few years back.  They have since bought new Fords and keep having the same problem.  My wife's Traverse is parked right in front of one of the F150s, and we live right next to one neighbor having the problem.  We've never had this problem.  I tell them rats eat trash, and if they stopped buying trash, and bought a Chevy, the problem would cease.  They haven't listened. 

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OnTheReel Senior Enthusiast

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Timely topic. Flippin squirrels got my Ram last week. They left the walnuts in there to prove it. $25 harness, but $600 labor because of course it’s in the valley where no human could reach. Maybe it’s true about the trash because I never had this problem with my GMs.

 

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Just hung a bunch of moth balls and will spray with peppermint oil regularly. Hope that’s the end of it. 

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rbdjr Enthusiast

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Get some pepperment oil and mix it 50/50 with water and spray engine compartment and under on harnesses and top of fuel tank, Also buy a cat and dont over feed him.

Transient Senior Enthusiast

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My dog is better at catching rats and mice than my wife's cats.  Get a good dog.  Unlike cats, they don't climb into engine compartments for warmth. 

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Thank God for insurance.   3 years ago a squirrel got into both trucks.   We started noticing a headlight out, then the heat didn't work on the other.  Both were new leases...less than a few months old.   

 

Then a brake light came on!   Looked under the hood and there were wires and hoses all chewed up.

 

All told 5300 on one truck, 7800 on the other.   AND they found little bastard dead  in the bumper.  They literally had both front ends tore down to the frame.   

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Transient Senior Enthusiast

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4 hours ago, fsuboy75 said:

Thank God for insurance.   3 years ago a squirrel got into both trucks.   We started noticing a headlight out, then the heat didn't work on the other.  Both were new leases...less than a few months old.   

 

Then a brake light came on!   Looked under the hood and there were wires and hoses all chewed up.

 

All told 5300 on one truck, 7800 on the other.   AND they found little bastard dead  in the bumper.  They literally had both front ends tore down to the frame.   

Make and model of trucks?  I want to see if I'm still correct. 

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On 1/2/2022 at 8:21 PM, Transient said:

Make and model of trucks?  I want to see if I'm still correct. 

Correct on what?    Both were silverado 1500s.   2018's.   

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4 hours ago, fsuboy75 said:

Correct on what?    Both were silverado 1500s.   2018's.   

Dang it!  I'm wrong.

 

See above about rodents eating trash.

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