People say that the way you treat your cars show how they treat themselves. But Janice Perzigian takes ‘extra’ care of her Ford Mustang for a strange reason. If she doesn’t, she will soon be handed a $600 plus bill for her car as some rats have found a staple diet in her cars wires under the hood. If you think this rat got some scores to settle with her, well she isn’t alone in her predicament. Across the country, this is fast growing in stature as a persisting problem, so much so that a class-action lawsuit was filed in 2016 in California against Toyota, asking the company to cover the damage from rodents chewing threw insulation under their warranty.
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So When Janice Perzigian found that the rat has left a trail of bread crumbs with rat feces and urine on the engine, She sprayed the engine with peppermint essential oil in the hope of keeping the rodent away. She affirmed that she is gonna do everything possible to make sure it doesn’t happen again. John Pappas ,owner of Main & Hudson Service in Royal Oak side, gets a vehicle just about every month with the rodent having chewed through its wires. Pappas said the cost of repair depends on the extend of damage and number of bites at different spots ranging from “minor to significant”.
The number of such incidents that are reported have been on the rise recently and the popular theory that floats around is that these components and wires are coated with Soy. Well perfect flavour for a rat! The Soy coating was probably an initiative from car manufactures to go green, but rats seemed to have found it delicious. So if the rats once chewed the materials to sharpen their teeth or to collect nesting material, the addition of Soy has seen them chewing the wires through. Its amazing how when the technology is developed so much, some of the niggling issues arise out of seemingly simpler causes.
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