Thread: Autumn. Time to check vehicles for mice and rats

Last year..

well good thing it was not a johnny

95% sure it was due to rats or mice chewing wiring. 1st guess is always a birds nest but fire started in the dash. Had been mowing for a few hours and thought I could smell plastic burning a couple of times, stopped and had a look around, thought maybe mower was hitting the skirt as seen that before. Carried on then at a certain point plastic smoke just started pouring out of the dash and by the time I got over to the water trough flames were coming out the side. Bloody fire extinguisher was dead, been sitting in there for years and probably never checked. Scary how fast it went

yes we had a baler go a few years back doing hay- bearing over heated- driver could not get it out- only good point was it was one of our older single balers and not one of our big Krone combis

Bloody cab heaters!

Had a mouse build a nest in the air con filter housing in my Colorado , easy fix but then found that they had chewed a few wires, into auto sparky , relatively cheap fix but he suggested that i tie a rat bait somewhere under the bonnet . The thought is they come in , have a feed on the bait as it is a bit more attractive to them then bugga off n die . It has worked so far , on new HiLux i have had no issues over last 2yrs ive had it and its parked in the workshop/implement shed .