Animal Damage to GLC

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My GLC was parked for the night on my driveway having been working all as normal. The following morning there were multiple messages displayed
relating to ABS, Cruise control, Limiter with engine warning light (Yellow). I booked into my local indy garage who identified the issue as rodent damage to the ABS sensor on the NSF wheel. They recon a fox or a squirrel has chewed the cable and taken a 100mm section out of it.
Has anyone else encountered this type of thing and if so how do you prevent it happening again?

 

[Larkone]

You are not alone

Cars mysteriously sabotaged by foxes

Motorists are using unusual tactics to try to outsmart an unusual culprit sabotaging their brake cables.

www.theargus.co.uk

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2024-05-14/residents-resort-to-wrapping-cars-in-tarpaulin-after-foxes-get-taste-for-cables

 

[Petrol Pete]

It is very common in some countries with some stored cars being written off because of it. Some believe it is often due to the wiring looms being partly made from 'ECO' biodegradable stuff that rodents like to eat.

 

[KennyN]

Read somewhere that Subaru at one point were using some sort of soy fibre in their wiring looms , rodents found this irresistible rendering the vehicles useless.

So not uncommon , even a slight coolant leak may tempt the wee blighters in for a munch , add some soy wiring and you have an all you can eat buffet.

K

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

My GLC was parked for the night on my driveway having been working all as normal. The following morning there were multiple messages displayed
relating to ABS, Cruise control, Limiter with engine warning light (Yellow). I booked into my local indy garage who identified the issue as rodent damage to the ABS sensor on the NSF wheel. They recon a fox or a squirrel has chewed the cable and taken a 100mm section out of it.
Has anyone else encountered this type of thing and if so how do you prevent it happening again?

You are not alone.

I live in just off 3,500 acres of woodland. At the last count, we'd had ten squirrel and fox attacks in a year (Out of 150 cars).

I've lost ABS sensor cable on my MX5 and on my son's BMW X5, But neighbours have also lost great chunks of plastic from off a new Cayenne, which put the Porsche off the road for three months, waiting for parts.

Why does it happen? Because German parts suppliers are using "Eco-friendly" coverings instead of plastics. Which are "quite tasty."

I've sprayed "chilli -flavoured" spray on the wiring involved, which may have put the little fellas off.

My Indy knew all about the cause of the problem.

Squirrels are getting out of control

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[Wolfie1]

We had a range rover at work written off as so much of the wiring loom had been eaten

 

[BoristheBounce]

Must admit I chases a mouse out of my garage only yesterday and the first thing that came to mind was had it been at the SL!

 

[Wolfie1]

I keep 1 of those sticky pads in my workshop against a wall, has caught 3 mice with it so far

 

[BoristheBounce]

I keep 1 of those sticky pads in my workshop against a wall, has caught 3 mice with it so far

Sticky pads????

 

[Headhurts]

I keep 1 of those sticky pads in my workshop against a wall, has caught 3 mice with it so far

Do tell?

 

[Bellow]

Sticky pads????

Do tell?

Fill yer boots> glue traps - Google Search

They're nasty things where you find either a dead starved to death mouse or the limbs it chewed off to escape. If it is still alive, then it has to be killed. The remaining possibility is the trap has gone as the rodent stopped short of going all the way onto it and instead dragged it off somewhere to enact its limb amputation more privately.

 

[SmartAmg]

God, they sound bloody awful. No doubt they work, though.

 

[ALFAitalia]

Mice don't chew their own legs off.....its the other animals that find them on the traps that do that! People used to day the same about rabbits in snares.....forgetting about all the foxes around!

 

[Bellow]

Mice don't chew their own legs off.....its the other animals that find them on the traps that do that!

They do.
Firstly, in a house what other animal would do that? And how would it be smart enough not to step on the glue trap itself?

 

[Scooby_Doo]

My GLC was parked for the night on my driveway having been working all as normal. The following morning there were multiple messages displayed
relating to ABS, Cruise control, Limiter with engine warning light (Yellow). I booked into my local indy garage who identified the issue as rodent damage to the ABS sensor on the NSF wheel. They recon a fox or a squirrel has chewed the cable and taken a 100mm section out of it.
Has anyone else encountered this type of thing and if so how do you prevent it happening again?

You need one of these. SInce our last one died of old age a few years ago the bank voles have had a field day. Wasn't that interested in birds but rabbits , field mice,moles and bank voles didn't stand a chance.
Just remembered , my neighbours' goldfish also had a tendancy to disappear.

 

[Wolfie1]

Do tell?

Thats the very things in the next post down from your last, they work very well. I have seen none on it the night before come in the next morning and there is a dead 1 stuck there, very efficient. The first time i “caught” a mouse with it the instructions say to fold it and dispose of it but i thought nah i will just peel the dead mouse off and reuse it, so i did by god they stick good, so good if fact when i was peeling the mouse off the mouse snapped and i got covered in dead mouse goo yuck! So now i just leave it on there till its caught a few and then dispose of it. We do have a very good mouser who goes by Milo the murderer but he cannot get inside my locked workshop when the doors are shut so it just made sense to keep a trap in there. Btw i got my sticky traps from ebay

 

[BoristheBounce]

Glue trap licences

Information for pest controllers about the rules for using glue traps to catch rodents, and how to apply for a licence.

www.gov.uk

 

[ALFAitalia]

.....and who exactly will enforce that when you buy them online?....that's right....no-one!!

 

[Darrell]

Sticky pads????

We had a rodent problem in our Skiathos house (single storey) a few years ago so I put a few of the sticky pads around to try to catch them.

I was busting for a slash at 3 in the morning after I’d been on a rather large Ouzo, Metaxa and Alfa session with friends.

I woke up on the sofa stark naked with a sticky mouse trap stuck to each foot!!
Didn't remember a thing.

 

[DSM10000]

We had a rodent problem in our Skiathos house (single storey) a few years ago so I put a few of the sticky pads around to try to catch them.

I was busting for a slash at 3 in the morning after I’d been on a rather large Ouzo, Metaxa and Alfa session with friends.

I woke up on the sofa stark naked with a sticky mouse trap stuck to each foot!!
Didn't remember a thing.

I thought that was going to end worse than it did!