Rodents ate my car (well not quite but they had a go)

[Lovemyev]

I remember watching an electrician posting a video on YouTube recently, when he went to a customers house that had a few spot lights, that suddenly stopped working.
Quickly he discovered that it was not the lamps, but after some testing, he found that the lighting cable between two lamps had been attacked by rodents that had entered his attic space.
He made a few phone calls to his cable suppliers and they told him that when producing the protective covering, contains some vegetable oil to allow flexibility.
The rodents have a fantastic sense of smell and it is this that causes them to chew on the casing / sleeving of the cable !.
How true this is, I don’t know TBH.

 

[Tig170]

Its common on an ICE car - infact I'm pretty sure I've either seen a mouse, or found evidence in most of my cars in 35 years. To be honest suprised to find this in an EV due to the lack of warmth (I've stuck a heat camera on the MG4 after a 5 hr road trip - the hotest was the tyres, which was around +5°C above ambient temp).

 

[Rolfe]

Hah yes. I'm always surprised when I go out to the car after pre-heating it and there's still frost on the top of the bonnet!