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Hello CT Fam,
In need of some help. With Covid and stay at home orders in CA, I haven’t driven my car in about a week; last week I drove to the grocery store only. Today while opening my door I heard a noise like a tail hitting plastic. I freaked out and closed the door and heard it again; the car was running due to remote start. I turned off the car and popped the hood and noticed rat poop and pieces of my firewall foam missing. I followed the trail and small bites and noticed leaves and other firewall foam in a nest form underneath the brake master area. I popped the lid from the cowl and boom. The nest was there. I cleaned up the mess and noticed that the wires running into the driver side firewall were bit. The rat didn’t chew through the entire wire, but it did cut a few and are exposed.
Does anyone know what the wires running through this section is for? I followed it underneath my steering column, but couldn’t see anything further.
In need of some help. With Covid and stay at home orders in CA, I haven’t driven my car in about a week; last week I drove to the grocery store only. Today while opening my door I heard a noise like a tail hitting plastic. I freaked out and closed the door and heard it again; the car was running due to remote start. I turned off the car and popped the hood and noticed rat poop and pieces of my firewall foam missing. I followed the trail and small bites and noticed leaves and other firewall foam in a nest form underneath the brake master area. I popped the lid from the cowl and boom. The nest was there. I cleaned up the mess and noticed that the wires running into the driver side firewall were bit. The rat didn’t chew through the entire wire, but it did cut a few and are exposed.
Does anyone know what the wires running through this section is for? I followed it underneath my steering column, but couldn’t see anything further.