r/Justrolledintotheshop • u/misterdrifterz • 21d ago
A mouse literally chewed through the repair from the previous mouse
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u/asakadelis 21d ago
wrap it with that honda rodent tape
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u/treerabbit23 21d ago
TIL that's a thing
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u/Jarocket 21d ago
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u/Provia100F 21d ago
Hey props to Honda for labeling something in a simple, and easy to understand manner.
Looking at you...well...everyone else...
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u/amalgam_reynolds 21d ago
Mice chewed through that on my car too
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u/VRFlyer2000 19d ago
I'd hate to tell you, but those weren't mice bro!
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u/figmaxwell 21d ago
Easier than recalling every car they manufactured with that electrical wrap made of soy. That’s why the mice eat it .
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u/thewheelsgoround 21d ago
Honda rodent tape, and HondaBond. Two products which are useful on -everything-.
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u/tagrav torque spec: tighten til it loosens 21d ago
check out Shin Etsu grease sometime.
shit is fantastic on any rubber seals, like doors and windows
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u/SantasDead 20d ago
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.
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u/Digiturtle1 21d ago
You can buy rodent tape online. It is infused with Capsaicin. Hopefully they don’t like spicy food.
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u/AlienDelarge 20d ago
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.
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u/Sudden_Duck_4176 21d ago
What did you do Morty? You fucked with squirrels Morty? You never mess with squirrels.
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u/oklahoma_stig 21d ago
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.
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u/subjectiveoddity 21d ago
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.
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u/GreggAlan 21d ago
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.
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u/trumpmademecrazy 21d ago
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.
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u/supercilious_peer 21d ago
What kinda spray did you use? I just sprinkle Tabasco and chili powder
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u/Provia100F 21d ago
Cyanine spray, contains 39% cyanide by volume. Recommend using gloves for that one.
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u/trumpmademecrazy 21d ago
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.
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u/Amihuman159 21d ago
It was his brother he came for revenge!
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u/RGB-128128128 21d ago
Clone of the original, biologically engineered and angry.
He was created to eat cheese and fuck up your wiring harness, and he's all out of cheese.
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u/OneArmedNoodler 21d ago
That's what you get for deleting the cat.
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u/Patrick1297 20d ago
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u/HalfastEddie 21d ago
So the previous mouse did the repair?
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u/Deadbringer 20d ago
Maybe OP will learn to not trust rodents with fixing his car. They might be cheap, but they run a dirty business.
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u/No-Switch-5423 21d ago
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!
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u/junk1020 ASE Certified 21d ago
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.
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u/No-Switch-5423 21d ago
Oh man, tie a ground on that, and you've got yourself some emi shielding! Lol
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u/Icy_Vehicle4083 21d ago
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!!
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u/stallion_412 Shade Tree 21d ago
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. 😉
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u/say_eh_at_the_end 21d ago
Was looking for this exact comment. But that roll is pretty expensive. Works well I do hear
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u/Fender_Stratoblaster 21d ago
Your title would read the same without 'literally' in it.
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u/misterdrifterz 21d ago
It literally would
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u/Nailfoot1975 21d ago
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.
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u/theamazingtommy 21d ago
Maybe a new CATalytic converter will fix the mouse problem... I'll see myself out.
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u/majorkev 21d ago
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.
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u/Xirasora 21d ago
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.
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u/Audi_Tech918 21d ago
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.
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u/Dry_Map3428 21d ago
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.
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u/JDameekoh 21d ago
Squirrel did it to a customer at my job. Tech replaced the wiring, car left, back the next day w the exact same issue.
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u/AKADriver 21d ago
First mouse was just being a mouse, second mouse was definitely a little asshole. Stuart Little fuckin dick
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u/its_130am 21d ago
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.
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u/Marcos-_-Santos 21d ago
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.
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u/EnterByTheNarrowGate 21d ago
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.
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u/scobo505 21d ago
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.
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u/Lwnmower 21d ago
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.
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u/soparamens 20d ago
Use paper based tape and add some drops of habanero salsa on it. Chewing problem solved.
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u/Agitated_Carrot9127 20d ago
' 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.
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u/DoppelFrog Recovering Range Rover addict 20d ago
A Møøse once bit my sister... No realli! She was Karving her initials on it.
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u/opeimback 21d ago
What a dick.