Rodents ate my wiring...

[FarzyB]

How many other people have had rodents chomp their wiring near the battery section of their car? My 981S is with OPC Hatfield who found rodents have been nesting there, eaten the wiring and probably caused the cruise control to disable and the fuel gauge to become non-functional. Looking on the web reveals stories of people claiming the soya based wiring insulation luring the critters. I'm being quoted ~£900 to fix the damage which is unexpected but I guess I'm glad it didn't lead to worse damage...

[C4ME]

Not a Porsche but 10 years ago had a rodent(s) chew through wiring on an A4 while sat at an airport. Car ended up written off as it needed a new wiring loom as a result.

[HoHoHo]

Happened to my 996 in 2003. A lovely little nest under the plastic cover behind the spare wheel at the front if I remember correctly.

Little feckers caused all sorts of damage to the loom!

By chance I had some mice st on the bonnet of my M5 this morning, I hope there’s nowhere warm to build a home under the bonnet!

[RDMcG]

I have a mate with a 991 GTS that had a visit from some very hungry rodents during winter storage.....was not good.

[FarzyB]

Seems the spectrum of potential damage is quite wide! I'm not sure how to make sure this never happens - other than using the car often and keeping an eye out for any telltale signs (but there were none this time). Does anyone have any tips, such as sprays, etc.?

[London GT3]

We had exactly the same problem with our 981S and it was found by Hatfield OPC on service. Fortunately no damage to the wiring, only the insulation. It looked a lot better after it was hoovered out. We were storing the car over winter in my mother’s garage and her garage door was not the fully sealed type. I now leave mouse traps around the edge of the garage and haven’t had any problems since.

[Roadrunner996]

Not rodents but we had foxes chewing the brake pipes on a Rav4

[s2000db]

Just make sure you’ve got plenty of rat poison dotted round your garage...

You’ll soon know if you’ve got visitors!

[soad]

FarzyB said:

Seems the spectrum of potential damage is quite wide! I'm not sure how to make sure this never happens - other than using the car often and keeping an eye out for any telltale signs (but there were none this time). Does anyone have any tips, such as sprays, etc.?

The people who make Rataway, tell you to spray it on all the wires in the engine: https://www.rataway.com/about-rataway-protects-eng...

[Stunters]

Happened to a Porsche of mine as well. Rodents chomped through the windscreen washer pipe and had started on the covering on the wiring loom. Fortunately they hadn't got too far and the car was easily repaired.

[Cheib]

In a bizarre coincidence I opened the Frunk of my wife's 718 Boxster this afternoon to find a dead mouse! How on earth it got in there we have no idea. Tossed it on the lawn....local Red Kite population was very grateful. Expensive mouse trap.....

My wife was pretty freaked out when I shouted to her there was a mouse in her car though