Rats – small dead animals

They’re what makes a Subaru, a Subaru.
h/t Jesse

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I’ve always thought soy based plastics were designed to erode with the elements. I remember they used to make plastic bags out of the stuff. Why would they be making fuel lines out of it?

To save the world.

Rats that eat cars…. They better beware the piston engines. You can’t eat them raw, you know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZOdVqlvys0

coming up a true story. someone i know had the wiring of both their cars chewed by rats. one car the cost was over 2,000$ to repair the other 1,000$ to repair. the cars were two different models of Kia’s. i don’t think rats discriminate.

Back in the ’80s a Royal Marine officer I knew had a black lab that chewed the interior of his new car for over a thousand pounds worth of damage. Just chewed, it wasn’t trying to eat to live, like the rats.

I had something similar happen to me a few years after I bought my car. I visited a former colleague at his farm one day. He had two dogs and they decided to chew on the front cover of my vehicle just for fun. They ended up tearing part of it.
My ex-colleague offered to pay for the repairs but I simply bought a new one.

For a second there…I thought Subaru was using rats as the power source (as in a hamster wheel)…LOL

I’m not so sure that rodents discriminate when it comes to brands. A porcupine chewed half the seat on my John Deere skidder, and squirrels have attacked hoses and lines in my F-150 and my wife’s Nissan. It’s a war zone, I tell ya….

I would throw the case out. You can’t vote for no coal, no oil, no pipelines, only wind, and then be surprised when rats find your “biodegradable” plastic to have food value. Hawaii voted for this; let them enjoy the reality of what it means to be “green”.

I had a beaver “chew” my water hose!!!

Spraying pads with Coyote Urine on top of each wheel and in the engine compartment each night to keep away rats? Building fuel lines and insulating exposed electrical wiring with what’s basically animal food? Stupid is as stupid does and this IS STUPID. What’s next? Installing LED traffic lights in Winnipeg that are too cool to melt windblown snow off the lens during their long 7 month long winters? Oh wait… Public safety is being thrown out the door in deference to these highly questionable eco-virtue signals. The engineers approving such changes should get their butts kicked for ignoring what is simple common sense. Public safety should be their NUMBER ONE concern bar none.

This rat problem is a thing with GM vehicles too. Its a soy-based polymer plastic that was mandated GM in the US, before it was discovered that rats and other rodents love the stuff. For sure GM was using it for certain model years. They may now be using it in all models.
Nice to know that Subaru is using it now. Makes my car buying decisions much easier. Kia is also using soy plastic, and their cars are being eaten too. At a guess all the Japanese outfits probably are.
I’d like to say that Ford isn’t, but they may well be. I’ve had no problems with mice eating my Ford yet, maybe they grew a clue and made it taste bad.
Just another example of Greenie virtue-signalling in the automotive sector. Dangerously tiny cars, edible insulation, computerized engine and transmission controls that decide how the car will perform instead of the driver doing it, all the same BS.

This isn’t a laughing matter. Rats build huge nests on the engine of my Dodge Durango. First, they ate through the fuel injector wiring and the car started missing and running rough. After I fixed that, they rebuilt their next with a bunch of pine cones and sticks. As I was passing another car, my throttle stuck wide open. I almost burned up my brakes trying to get stopped. When I opened the hood, I found that one of the sticks has lodged itself under the throttle linkage and jammed it open. I remove the nests but they just rebuild them the next night.