Whats up with little fences underneath parked cars?
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thinkofaname said:
Sorry if this is a dumb question and I've missed a trend, but recently a few cars parked outside houses near me have had little chicken-wire or log fences arranged underneath them as if to deter something. Foxes? Cats? Thieves stealing catalytic converters?
Bloody foxes with angle grinders, a real menance these days, stealing chickens is so last year but cats are all the rage apparently.https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/379982/Foxes-dri...
Foxes drink my car brake fluid
Got a belting DailyMail Express sad face in the article.
Foxes drink my car brake fluid
Got a belting Daily
paintman said:
Photos?
Night-time photo, but you can see the end of the wooden barrier peeping out of the shadow here. It goes across the whole rear of the van:
This one has chicken-wire all around, and a sort of Christmas lights LED thing going on:
Edited by thinkofaname on Thursday 27th January 21:45
thinkofaname said:
Thieves stealing catalytic converters?
That's what I think it is, although I don't think a bit of chicken wire is much deterrent. The catalytic converter seems to be very accessible on some cars, especially SUVs. I don't know if that's the case for the cars & van in your pictures. Can you ask?There seems to be a massive resurgence in rodent damage especially to wiring looms again. Apparently new eco wraps,tapes and looming products can now contain soya. Perhaps this is some misguided deterrent along those lines? Never seen or heard of it until this post, and my flabber is ghasted!
Bottom and middle one looks like its to stop rodents from getting into your car and chewing stuff up.
Googled it, came back with porcupine barriers. Apparently they like to eat antifreeze and will chew your pipes? Didn’t even know this was a thing.
No idea about under the transit though.
Googled it, came back with porcupine barriers. Apparently they like to eat antifreeze and will chew your pipes? Didn’t even know this was a thing.
No idea about under the transit though.
Edited by wyson on Thursday 27th January 21:59
Way, way back, pine martens in Germany were attracted to certain plastics, but a change to the material mix sorted that out decades ago. Then again, tastes do change.
https://www.bavariannews.com/blog/2020/01/17/marte...
https://www.bavariannews.com/blog/2020/01/17/marte...
wyson said:
Bottom and middle one looks like its to stop rodents from getting into your car and chewing stuff up.
Googled it, came back with porcupine barriers. Apparently they like to eat antifreeze and will chew your pipes? Didn’t even know this was a thing.
No idea about under the transit though.
Porcupines are travelling to the UK to chew through brake pipes?Googled it, came back with porcupine barriers. Apparently they like to eat antifreeze and will chew your pipes? Didn’t even know this was a thing.
No idea about under the transit though.
Edited by wyson on Thursday 27th January 21:59
normalbloke said:
There seems to be a massive resurgence in rodent damage especially to wiring looms again. Apparently new eco wraps,tapes and looming products can now contain soya. Perhaps this is some misguided deterrent along those lines? Never seen or heard of it until this post, and my flabber is ghasted!
This^Just had two sensors chewed through by foxes on our VW Crafter van for the second time. Apparently the plastic is plant based and seemingly tasty.
New Nox sensor and lambda sensor £1,500 from VW.
Needless to say we’re having the wiring repaired instead and will be fashioning some sort of deterrent to hopefully prevent it from happening again.
It seems to be a problem particularly common to commercial vehicles and especially VW ones!
Edited by adf83 on Thursday 27th January 22:11
Tyre Tread said:
Porcupines are travelling to the UK to chew through brake pipes?
Yeah, they are getting special deals because they aren’t subject to airline Covid cancellations. Apparently the British automotive pipe scene has really taken off as late. The soy based ones are all the rage.Edited by wyson on Friday 28th January 07:18
I have problems with mice occasionally, they tend to leave the wires alone (Mitsubishi wires mustn't taste nice) but they do destroy any foam or insulating material. One daft specimen chewed part of the rubber cap over the positive battery terminal, fortunately he didn't short the circuit or that would have been a right mess to clear up!
Given they can slide through impossibly small gaps into the house, I don't see how chicken wire panels could possibly deter them. I lay a perimeter of poison boxes to try and keep them away from the car, but that could be just as useless.
Given they can slide through impossibly small gaps into the house, I don't see how chicken wire panels could possibly deter them. I lay a perimeter of poison boxes to try and keep them away from the car, but that could be just as useless.
bigandclever said:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/379982/Foxes-dri...
Foxes drink my car brake fluid
Got a belting DailyMail Express sad face in the article.
I was glad they included a photo of a fox as I was struggling to visualise what one looked like.Foxes drink my car brake fluid
Got a belting Daily
normalbloke said:
There seems to be a massive resurgence in rodent damage especially to wiring looms again. Apparently new eco wraps,tapes and looming products can now contain soya. Perhaps this is some misguided deterrent along those lines? Never seen or heard of it until this post, and my flabber is ghasted!
I've had a big issue with rats through the Autumn and Winter this time.Invade my garage etc.
Pretty sure this is due to a neighbour moving out and taking his chickens with him, leaving the rodents to find new food sources.
Trapped a few and shot a few.
Judging by how rats and mice can get wherever they seem to want to, I can't see a little fence or chicken wire doing anything.
Before christmas we had scurrying in the enclosed kitchen roof (had mice in the garage loft before).
Since I’ve been setting traps outside next to walls / run lines etc and have caught a dozen or so mice but none in the last couple of weeks. I enclosed them in ice cream containers with a hole each end.
I thought I had a ‘mission impossible’ mouse as the peanut butter kept disappearing. Slugs!!
Since I’ve been setting traps outside next to walls / run lines etc and have caught a dozen or so mice but none in the last couple of weeks. I enclosed them in ice cream containers with a hole each end.
I thought I had a ‘mission impossible’ mouse as the peanut butter kept disappearing. Slugs!!
thinkofaname said:
Sorry if this is a dumb question and I've missed a trend, but recently a few cars parked outside houses near me have had little chicken-wire or log fences arranged underneath them as if to deter something. Foxes? Cats? Thieves stealing catalytic converters?
Is this a regional thing? I live in North London and travel quite expansively. Haven't seen anything like it. adf83 said:
This^
Just had two sensors chewed through by foxes on our VW Crafter van for the second time. Apparently the plastic is plant based and seemingly tasty.
New Nox sensor and lambda sensor £1,500 from VW.
Needless to say we’re having the wiring repaired instead and will be fashioning some sort of deterrent to hopefully prevent it from happening again.
It seems to be a problem particularly common to commercial vehicles and especially VW ones!
honda sell some special tape thats deters rodents , isnt cheap but cheaper than £1500 in parts i guessJust had two sensors chewed through by foxes on our VW Crafter van for the second time. Apparently the plastic is plant based and seemingly tasty.
New Nox sensor and lambda sensor £1,500 from VW.
Needless to say we’re having the wiring repaired instead and will be fashioning some sort of deterrent to hopefully prevent it from happening again.
It seems to be a problem particularly common to commercial vehicles and especially VW ones!
Edited by adf83 on Thursday 27th January 22:11
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