A rodents raped my car!

PukkaSilvia · #1 12-03-2007, 20:38

After 2 days of my car working since being off the road for months its already buggered hard.
I was driving it home yesterday evening when i got a stutter and a misfire. then 5 seconds later the whole car died while i was in the middle of the road overtaking an illegally parkt car,No headlights or anything. Smoke was pouring out the bonnet and there were cars stuck in front and behind me. I had to use gravity as i was going up a hill to roll backwards and up onto the curb. With no lights late at night it was a nightmare. I bumped up the pavement hearing my rear spat make a nasty craking noise as it ground out
I then jumped out the car and pooped the bonnet. The loom was smoking up all round the engine bay.I ripped the battery terminal off. Lucky with a hard twist and yank it came off. It turned out it was my amplifier cable that had been smoking up from all the way from the battery to the bulkhead inside the loom covering. I cut the cable at the battery with some scissors claire had. The car luckily started up and is fine.
Had a look at the damage today and the rear spat that grounded out has half broken off so need refitting,smoothing and painting again.

I then had a look in the bulkhead to see where the short had started and found loads of bloody acorn shells and a ball of carpet underlay made into a little nest in my dashboard

. Some little bastids ate into my amp power cable so that it had more room to sqweeze through the hole in the bulkhead where hes been hoarding nuts and stuff for a rainy day

Typical eh! lol

I was lucky the battery terminal came off fast. If it hadnt the car would of gone up in flames. My next amp cambe will have a fuse inline next to the battery. So its sort of my fault for not installing one before. Theres one built into the amp but thats obviously no good if the short happens before it

30psi · #2 12-03-2007, 21:03

Most of the amp cables come with fuses, as you say you were lucky lol.

doski · #3 12-03-2007, 22:25

i had a similar sort of problem in that a load of mice found there way into my airbox and made a nest lol. little buggers

s12Rob · #4 12-03-2007, 22:45

you was very lucky there m8, could of been a unhappy moment for ya, glad its sorted tho

slimreaper · #5 13-03-2007, 09:13

Easy fix,
No Stereo > No Speakers > No Amp > No amp cable > No problem > less weight

Unlucky though, damn those pesky rodent feckers!

Conkers · #6 13-03-2007, 16:32

Could have been a ratastrophy....

Boom Boom

Ah.. my coat. Thanks..

PukkaSilvia · #7 18-03-2007, 18:45

he was back in my car friday. I went out into the barn at lunch to disconnect the battery and heard a rustling from the scuttle panel. I sprayed wd40 in all the holes and i heard it move.Then opened the passenger door and squirted up behind the dash. I then saw it running along the barn floor and into a box,which i then booted across the floor. It was a little fat field mouse