{"id":5479,"date":"2021-06-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=5479"},"modified":"2021-06-21T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T10:00:00","slug":"mice-in-cars-isnt-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/21\/mice-in-cars-isnt-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Mice In Cars Isn&#8217;t Good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve had to deal with damage from animals under the hood of cars multiple times. A lot of times it&#8217;s just the remnants of a small nest something started building, sometimes it&#8217;s pieces of food or droppings, or even chewed wires. I haven&#8217;t seen many get inside cars, but that can be a big mess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021_06_21_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021_06_21_01.jpg?w=800\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5483\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a car another tech was working on that was in the shop for a few days waiting for insurance to look at it, and as you can see, some sort of animal was inside the car and having a field day with the firewall insulation. I don&#8217;t know if any wiring harnesses got chewed on, but the dash had to be removed for a full inspection and to replace the insulation, so that&#8217;s not a cheap fix for this animal mischief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New blog post or video every Monday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCasCW0ImD3UuLeMu5RAZCXg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch Mechanical Malarkey on YouTube!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/merchandise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">T-shirts, hats, and stickers<\/a> are available to order!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had to deal with damage from animals under the hood of cars multiple times. A lot of times it&#8217;s just the remnants of a small nest something started building, sometimes it&#8217;s pieces of food or droppings, or even chewed wires. I haven&#8217;t seen many get inside cars, but that can be a big mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[26,43],"class_list":["post-5479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-damage","tag-interior-trim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}