We all know of the intrinsic affinity rats have to polymeric materials like wires and cables. This affinity causes us a lot of damage on a daily basis in various sectors like telecommunications, pipeline, automobiles, etc. Of these rodents target the automobile sector to a great extent!
Rodents due to their growing incisors need something to gnaw on in order to reduce their incisors length. Practically, rodents gnaw at everything they can get their hands on. They are attracted to the smell and color of plasticizers used in our wires and cables. They attack wires and cables in all applications; be it indoors or outdoors. I am sure many of you might have experienced trouble getting your car started especially in winters. One of the main reasons for this is the rats. Rats make their way into our car hoods during winters as the hoods provide a perfect refuge from the outside cold. After all, we all need a warm place and ready food. Our car hoods provide the perfect ‘cozy place’ and the car wires inadvertently become something to ‘munch on’ for these creatures!
Once they make a way into the automobiles, they gnaw at the engine wiring and damage it. They may also target the interiors of cars chewing through the seat covers and other foam material inside! The end result is a lot of monetary loss and heartache that can be easily avoided. Let us take a look at the below news article;
Rat causes R154,000 damage to Porsche
Good to gnaw: One rodent could cost you your car, so learn how to protect yourself
Wendy Knowler
13 August 2019
After rat damage, the repair bill for a
prized Porsche Carrera 4S Cabriolet was a hefty R154.000. File picture
Image: Marino Performance Motors
Lots of awful things can happen to a car – crashes, hijackings, hailstone damage, break-ins, flooding – but few people who take out insurance consider the destructive power of rats.
From chewing on essential wiring to building nests and hiding food inside the engine, a nesting rat with a taste for wiring insulation can be quite the wrecking furball.
When Micheal Maeso of Mount Edgecombe, KwaZulu-Natal, took his prized Porsche Carrera 4S Cabriolet on a spin recently, just three weeks after a full service was done, he noticed the oil pressure gauge wasn’t working.
Back to the Porsche dealership the car went, and that’s how the resident rat, and the damage it had caused before it died, was discovered.
“I was horrified,” Maeso said, “but I suppose living in areas that were previously cane fields, these things happen.”
The repair bill was a hefty R154,000.
Luckily for him, his claim was settled by his insurer, Hollard, via his broker, TIB Insurance Brokers.
Dublin woman tells how car was written off after rat destroyed part of vehicle
Dublin City Council is now facing renewed calls to tackle an ongoing rat problem in the city centre flat complex
By Mark O’brien
15th July 2019
A woman has told how her car was written off after a RAT gnawed on the timing belt.
Pauline Nolan had a lucky escape after a rat got in under the bonnet of her silver 2005 Ford Fiesta and destroyed the engine.
Dublin City Council is now facing renewed calls to tackle an ongoing rat problem in the city centre flat complex.
Pauline, who lives in the flat complex on Cuffe Street, told the Irish Mirror: “On Friday morning I was driving out, turned on my engine and heard a bang or a pop.
“I reversed out and the rat was dead beside me. I hate them so I just kept going, which was quite dangerous.”
By the time Pauline reached her destination the car completely seized.
“When the AA chap came out, he had a look at it and you could see the traces of the rats and everything.”
The rat got trapped in the timing belt of the car and twisted it.
Pauline added: “I was absolutely lucky I wasn’t involved in a collision or my brakes could have gone if they chewed on the wires.
“I could have hit somebody. Somebody was looking after me the way it happened but unfortunately my car is a write off.”
As detailed in this interesting news article, the incidences of damaged have just been increasing at an alarming rate! Efforts need to be taken to ensure that our costly investment is protected from the wrath of these creatures.
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These products are environment-friendly implying that they do not leach out of the polymer matrix besides exercising their basic function of keeping the target species away. They are effective in low dosages, have low vapor pressure-thus posing no problems of fumes in the air, and they have a long life action depending upon the application. These products are available in the form of polymeric masterbatches compatible with all the kinds of thermosetting and thermoplastic polymers. The masterbatches can also be customized depending upon the target, application, and region.
These products are available in the form of ready to use lacquer that can be applied as a coating inside or on the surface of the automobiles. Also, these products in liquid form can be incorporated in paints and used in the automobile industry.
The newly developed product in the form of spray is a must-have product for every car owner! The Rodrepel™ Rodent Repellent Spray is specially designed for cars. The product can be sprayed on the car components after clearing the dust and waste from the components. The product when applied properly repels the rodents and protects the cars from rodent damage.
RodrepelTM works on the mechanism of repellence. It does not kill target species but only repels them.
It is high time we take effective and stringent measures for protecting our automobiles from these vile creatures!
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