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Scratch Monkey posted:It’s my understanding that the relatively limited number of CJ mail jeeps that were made came onto the civilian market in very very bad shape My dad bought a DJ for next to nothing in the very early nineties, and it was rusted nearly through on every floor pan, the engine was completely locked up, and all four brake corners had leaks bad enough that you couldn't keep fluid in it. They went to auction in horrific shape.
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To be clear, he was working on the brakes all the time to replace pads worn down by driving a mail route.
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MrYenko posted:My dad bought a DJ for next to nothing in the very early nineties, and it was rusted nearly through on every floor pan, the engine was completely locked up, and all four brake corners had leaks bad enough that you couldn't keep fluid in it. They went to auction in horrific shape. My grandfather bought a Willys off the Army when they lived in Alaska (early '60s). It seemed like a good idea at the time. He drove around a Jeep w/smoke generator during his second period of service, knew how to work on them, and had a good opinion of the vehicle. The thing was in such bad shape it immediately became a chicken coop. I never knew the man to not have piles of old trucks in the back yard. Cars, RVs, trailers, boats, and, one time, the fuselage of a Cessna 150.
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Sounds like alaska.txt to me
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Apparently when grandpa bought his used Willis Jeep he passed a dealer with a better looking one so he returned the first one for the second one.
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My 2019 Toyota Rav4 Hybrid has been termed a total loss due to mouse damage. There had been some activity a while ago (never kept any food in there or anything, they just like it...) but I did the peppermint oil thing and put an ultrasonic dealie in the engine compartment (plugged in, not battery powered) and hadn't seen any activity for months. Few days ago I got an 'hybrid system error' warning and took it in. Apparently the mice not only were doing their mouse thing all over the battery area, eating those delicious soy-coated wires, but they were basically in the walls Aliens-style, and they even said that if an airbag had happened to deploy, it would have been even more unpleasant than otherwise. Unfortunately (?), they didn't send pics, when I go to get my things out of it I'll see if I can get some. Honest to God it was not disgusting to be in. Other than that, love the car!
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I had a customer at work with a 5-6 year old Prius that got totaled out because of mice. He didn't drive it for 4-5 months early in the pandemic, and when he went to drive it eventually it was absolutely packed with mouse debris inside and in the engine bay. So apparently it's more common than I thought! He ended up getting another Prius, but now he's very diligent about mice in his garage, understandably.
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Mozi posted:My 2019 Toyota Rav4 Hybrid has been termed a total loss due to mouse damage. There had been some activity a while ago (never kept any food in there or anything, they just like it...) but I did the peppermint oil thing and put an ultrasonic dealie in the engine compartment (plugged in, not battery powered) and hadn't seen any activity for months. Few days ago I got an 'hybrid system error' warning and took it in. Apparently the mice not only were doing their mouse thing all over the battery area, eating those delicious soy-coated wires, but they were basically in the walls Aliens-style, and they even said that if an airbag had happened to deploy, it would have been even more unpleasant than otherwise. Unfortunately (?), they didn't send pics, when I go to get my things out of it I'll see if I can get some. Honest to God it was not disgusting to be in. oh god I wish I had not imagined the mouse poo poo explosion that the airbags would've unleashed and corpses e. and high speed newly-homogenized-by-pressure mouse 
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Feb 24, 2023 05:42
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Mozi posted:My 2019 Toyota Rav4 Hybrid has been termed a total loss due to mouse damage. There had been some activity a while ago (never kept any food in there or anything, they just like it...) but I did the peppermint oil thing and put an ultrasonic dealie in the engine compartment (plugged in, not battery powered) and hadn't seen any activity for months. Few days ago I got an 'hybrid system error' warning and took it in. Apparently the mice not only were doing their mouse thing all over the battery area, eating those delicious soy-coated wires, but they were basically in the walls Aliens-style, and they even said that if an airbag had happened to deploy, it would have been even more unpleasant than otherwise. Unfortunately (?), they didn't send pics, when I go to get my things out of it I'll see if I can get some. Honest to God it was not disgusting to be in. God drat, I've been dealing with mouse damage in my BMW i3 recently but luckily I got out of it fairly inexpensively compared to that. Most insurance companies here in Australia don't seem to cover rodent damage so I would have potentially been out almost $30k if they had decided to chew on different wires instead.
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My WRX would always get mice. They'd get all over the car, including in the trunk, and repeatedly build nests in the cabin air filter. I'd periodically mouse trap the car and get them, and obviously remove the nest and replace the filter and clean everything as best as able, but man was it tiresome. It hasn't happened since we moved from Wisconsin to Virginia so fingers crossed I guess.
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ssb posted:My WRX would always get mice. They'd get all over the car, including in the trunk, and repeatedly build nests in the cabin air filter. I'd periodically mouse trap the car and get them, and obviously remove the nest and replace the filter and clean everything as best as able, but man was it tiresome. Mice just love WRXes.    They got everywhere in that drat thing. There was so much mouse poo poo under the rear seats.
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Feb 24, 2023 11:43
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Working at a Toyota dealer, it blows my mind how often I'm quoting out a $1500-$4000 wiring harness because a mouse went ham on it. It's about once a week. If you get lucky our techs can cut a piece off of a harness from The Pile and splice it in, but man do they love the soy coating on em.
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Feb 24, 2023 12:30
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Another reason why I love living in a tropical climate. Alligators won't chew my tires off thankfully 
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what the actual gently caress peanut butter is not a sealant, stop
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I had squirrels in my GTI. Thankfully, they only damaged one wire, but they got under the soundproofing under the hood and filled it with corn kernels that spilled out when I opened it.
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My old office campus was an arboretum, and jam packed with squirrels. They ate the wiring harness on my 4Runner once and got my work van three separate times over a 6-year span. I park as far away from trees as I can get at my new office.
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They literally have a soy based coating for the wires? Man that’s just inviting mice. I once bought a motorcycle from a barn that had housed many mice. Mercifully they didn’t chew anything, they just sort of……lived in it. It reeked of mouse piss and poo poo (and I worked the price down commensurately). When I got it home I vacuumed up all the poo poo I could find, doused the whole thing in white vinegar and scrubbed it like crazy. That mostly took care of it. I of course had one final surprise when I got to the air cleaner. Please don’t click if you don’t want to see a dead mouse: https://i.imgur.com/YatFVQJ.jpg Again, didn’t chew it or anything, just living in there.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:They literally have a soy based coating for the wires? Man that’s just inviting mice. Yep. And Toyota also uses a composite bioplastic filled with shredded soybean fiber for a bunch of the cabin air ducting. It's more sustainable than plain old ABS or whatever but boy do mice ever love the taste! When my stepmom had a Corolla she had to clear out a mouse family from the glovebox every couple of months.
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yup I learned about soy wiring when I left work one day and my Civic Si's instrument panel was dead 
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And if it was just a matter of replacing the air filters and doing some other repairs now and then then it would just be an annoyance, but now it's just, if you're lucky we can replace the battery for 5k.
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Powershift posted:Mice just love WRXes. Must be a Subaru thing. They were always in my wife’s forester.
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Where do the hell do you guys live to have such prolific rodent problems? My family has been a Toyota family for the past 2 decades and have never had rodent issues and we're in central suburban NJ. Closest rodent problem I've had is a squirrel or something pulling the insulation from the hood of my Subaru to build a nest on top of the engine block and stuffing acorns into the hood in the space where the insulation was.
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My FIAT had rats. Thankfully they only chewed a couple wires, but they made a whole bunch of bedding in the intake ducts
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The Door Frame posted:My FIAT had rats. Fumigate it again, Terminix
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https://twitter.com/Colinismblog/status/1629173071016869888?t=ooZF7l7XZH_DoqASXprt3Q&s=19
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Olympic Mathlete posted:https://twitter.com/Colinismblog/status/1629173071016869888?t=ooZF7l7XZH_DoqASXprt3Q&s=19 Just when you thought the panel gaps couldn’t get any worse, *taps thread title*
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Edward IV posted:Where do the hell do you guys live to have such prolific rodent problems? My family has been a Toyota family for the past 2 decades and have never had rodent issues and we're in central suburban NJ. Closest rodent problem I've had is a squirrel or something pulling the insulation from the hood of my Subaru to build a nest on top of the engine block and stuffing acorns into the hood in the space where the insulation was. Our cats do a very nice job of keeping down the local rodent population. We've never had a problem with them.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Just when you thought the panel gaps couldn’t get any worse, *taps thread title* If anything this will have improved the panel gaps.
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Edward IV posted:Where do the hell do you guys live to have such prolific rodent problems? My family has been a Toyota family for the past 2 decades and have never had rodent issues and we're in central suburban NJ. Closest rodent problem I've had is a squirrel or something pulling the insulation from the hood of my Subaru to build a nest on top of the engine block and stuffing acorns into the hood in the space where the insulation was. In the woods in Vermont. Lots of snakes, owls, hawks... and they're all eating pretty well I figure.
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My mother lives in rural Indiana and I’ve sent her probably $1200 over the last three months for repairs and pest control because squirrels keep eating wiring on her Grand Cherokee.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:https://twitter.com/Colinismblog/status/1629173071016869888?t=ooZF7l7XZH_DoqASXprt3Q&s=19 Nice bazinga basket
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Did no one learn from the Morano Cross Cab?
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That looks like NCE's work.   
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That truck kinda sick though... Also why are all car journos absolute marks for an industry that pays them to drive around in posh cars that they only get access to if they suck corporate cock? Oh wait. https://twitter.com/Motor1com/status/1629184195124686854?t=u8--q42pfC-se7Mzu1oppw&s=19
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The contagion is spreading!  
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No one in a right mind thinks a screen to adjust volume is better than a physical knob, unless they are a physical knob
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y9D9Aatl0E
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First shop I worked at had a guy that brought his Pantera in ever spring to repair the mice damage from leaving it in the barn all winter.
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honda whisperer posted:First shop I worked at had a guy that brought his Pantera in ever spring to repair the mice damage from leaving it in the barn all winter. Projects in the
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