Does Third Gen Use Rat Friendly Soy Base Wire Insulation?

http://bgr.com/2016/12/19/vehicle-recalls-toyota-soy-wiring/

 

Lol this made me laugh then I thought what if I was trapped in the middle of nowhere, I could eat my wires to survive. My Toy is the ultamite survival vehicle, its an emergency meal on wheels.

 

Friend with a 2015 Tacoma had his soy based wiring eaten by a rat's in norcal.
Cost him a bit to get fixed

 

Most modern vehicles do I believe

 

That just sucks!

 

I'm not a huge fan of cats, but I sure am glad my neighbors have them!

 

All toyota and lexus vehicles use soy based wire insulation.

 

Stupid environmental nutbags end up giving us these problems. Supposedly putting peppermint oil soaked cotton balls around under the hood helps keep them out.

 

This isn't just a Toyota issue.

 

A mechanic friend suggested putting mothballs inside the engine compartment when mice set up house in my sons Subaru- that seemed to do the trick- probably going to try that as a preventative measure-

 

I put mothballs and bounce dryer sheets under the hood of my car when I store it away for the winter.

 

I keep the Bounce dryer sheets in my RTT to keep the rodents away.

 

yes. i just had a check engine light come on for engine knock sensor on my 2nd gen. 99% of the time this is caused by rats eating wires and not covered by warranty, but insurance should cover it. anyway, they had to pull the intake to get to the sensor and found that 1 of the wires was cut, but it did not really look like rodent damage so they had to cover that under warranty

there are also under-the-hood rodent repellent devices you could buy on Amazon

 

I heard that a howling rear diff helps get rid of Rats.

 

No, no... it attracts the rats, not unlike an automotive pied piper, hence all the wire-eating instances.

 

not my idea, but if there living in your frame or engine bay, buy and install a snorkel + breathers. Then put them to use.

 

Just spray the shit outta your engine bay with Fluid Film.

Oh wait, maybe that's like a yummy topping for the delicious soy wires.

 

I use CRC Brand heavy duty anti corrosion spray on my frame, l was reading that it is a good deterrent as it does stink.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Honda-4019-2317-Rodent-Tape/dp/B00AJTG3N0

This works too. It has the sppiiiiiiiicccccceeeee

 

Never knew that existed...