Guess what!?!?!?

[Soggybottomboy]

The fuel line on a 2023 is made of a vegetable matter.
Yep.
I surmise this is in part due to trying to "Go Green", but I digress.

Guess what likes to chew on vegetable matter????? Squirrels, that's what.

Guess what happens when you take delivery of a new jeep and have the dealer spray undercoat for beach, salt, sand protection and a chewed fuel line sprays gas all under your jeep? The undercoat comes off, runs down and stains the road, driveway and whatever else it drips on.

Guess what has taken my dealer 3 weeks to fix???? My damn jeep, that's what.

Ain't that something?!?!?

Oh well. More time to eradicate the tree rats.

Just FYI.

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[2nd 392]

The fuel line on a 2023 is made of a vegetable matter.
Yep.
I surmise this is in part due to trying to "Go Green", but I digress.

Guess what likes to chew on vegetable matter????? Squirrels, that's what.

Guess what happens when you take delivery of a new jeep and have the dealer spray undercoat for beach, salt, sand protection and a chewed fuel line sprays gas all under your jeep? The undercoat comes off, runs down and stains the road, driveway and whatever else it drips on.

Guess what has taken my dealer 3 weeks to fix???? My damn jeep, that's what.

Ain't that something?!?!?

Oh well. More time to eradicate the tree rats.

Just FYI.

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Just hope they haven’t started using peanut oil coated wires like Toyota, they love it too. ~ $5K 4R wire loom . Edit- ins covered - deductible

 

[zsg1313]

Not funny story at all but mice are the wiring for the trans on my others 2015 Subaru. Insurance covered it as "vandalism."

 

[2nd 392]

@Soggybottomboy - I got owl boxes from the HS wood-shop and soon had quite a crop of owls eliminating the squirrels and other rodents
…. I now have owl pellets and sh!t ?.

But a lesser problem ?

 

[Soggybottomboy]

I like the owl idea!!!

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[MayThe4x4BWU]

Squirrels, like geese, have become so used to people doing nothing to them, that they basically will walk right up and smack the taste right out of your mouth after wrecking your vehicle ?

 

[GonnaGetLost]

Well they must have been making the “cheap” bumpers out of the same stuff in 2021… ??‍..

 

[Opus]

Squirrels don't necessarily target fuel lines. They get into engines more because of the warmth, then chew on a variety of things often just to keep their teeth filed down. Squirrel's teeth grow throughout their lives.

 

[Bill_BCNtoNY]

Squirrels don't necessarily target fuel lines. They get into engines more because of the warmth, then chew on a variety of things often just to keep their teeth filed down. Squirrel's teeth grow throughout their lives.

okay, so someone please come up with a low power draw accessory that gives up just enough warmth to attract the squirrels. Oh, and also attach a good old nail file to this contraption to make sure that’s the only spot the squirrels chew on!

 

[2nd 392]

okay, so someone please come up with a low power draw accessory that gives up just enough warmth to attract the squirrels. Oh, and also attach good oil nail file to this contraption to make that’s the only spot the squirrels chew on!

FWIW- Toyota flatly stated they love their peanut oil wire shields when writing it up without being asked…. How I found out they were made with it. ? ?

 

[Mocopo]

Squirrels don't necessarily target fuel lines. They get into engines more because of the warmth, then chew on a variety of things often just to keep their teeth filed down. Squirrel's teeth grow throughout their lives.

Who needs National Geographic when you have jeep forums =)

 

[2nd 392]

Who needs National Geographic when you have jeep forums =)

Well- if you read National Geographic you would know what the world’s best Jeep anti-theft device is.

 

[pablo_max3045]

Hoses lined with Fluoroelastomers , which is what the "plant matter" is, have nothing to do with going green.
They are used because standard rubber will quickly break down when using bio diesel and fuels containing ethanol.
Typically, there is only a lining of the material though, not the entire hose.

 

[Soggybottomboy]

@GonnaGetLost - The same thing happened to my hood latches!

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