My daughter's Honda civic had the air conditioning fail while just off warranty. The first thing they did was charge the system, which I doubt it needed. Then they found the culprit....the power wire to the compressor clutch was broken. The dealership wrote it up as a mouse chew, and made it up to a $1200 claim against her insurance. She asked if they couldn't just solder the wire together. Nope...needed a whole compressor. They claimed it was too tight a spot to do the work in. I brought it in to my shop and put it on the hoist. Took me longer to figure out how to remove the plastic underpan than it did to solder and heatshrink the wire. Personally, I am not certain it was a mouse in the first place. Why they would just chew that one wire, and leave everything else alone is beyond me.
The little buggers did eat the winter insulation on both batteries of my new Dodge Ram. My previous mantra was live and let live....no longer.
They also like to eat the wooly insulation out of WS19 headsets. They will do acrobatics in order to accomplish that goal.
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