A Dead Rodent Saga - Help

[69Mach390]

What a nightmare story.

At this point I'd just leave it in there, it will eventually dry out and stop smelling. The damage done to the car by cutting it apart and reassembling would be unacceptable to me.

This is the way.

I won’t smell forever and it will do zero damage at this point.

Heck, it might even keep the next rat away.

A lot of times this is the result of rat poison. It dehydrates them and they seem to crawl into the tightest space they can find and die.

Then they smell up your car/house/whatever for a month. My parents have gone through years of this. You can smell them but rarely find them and eventually the smell goes away. We try to get them to trap, and eventually they did.

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[surfore]

I just heard from the body shop: “Good morning, so we've removed the rodents from the wheelhouse without any additional disassembly. We snaked in a camera to identify how they were positioned and pulled them out of the hole without damaging/cutting into any part of the vehicle. We're currently working on cleaning up the internal areas with sanitizers, bleach, paint thinners and then cavity wax to properly clean out the wheelhouse there. Once we're done with the process, we will send the vehicle back to the dealer to reassemble and do any necessary calibrations needed. We should be getting the vehicle back to the dealer by the beginning of next week.”

I’ve attached some pics of how disassembled it was, which is far less than taking apart the frame of the vehicle as was the prescription when it headed off to the body shop.

I need 4 new tires and breaks all around though.

Are there any tire recommendations for a tire that preforms as good if not better on dry and wet road conditions (I have two early teen daughters so safety is a priority), are as efficient as if not bette, provides a ride as comfortable if not more, last longer and costs less than the original equipment? (It’s a Cross Turismo 4 so it’s the base HP for 2023. Every Tesla, plus many other EVs and non-EVs are quicker off the line than mine, though most can’t hang in on turns like my car can - the Porsche DNA and tires.)

I live in the Bay Area so it’s dry or wet pavement conditions with hills and turns with the only straightaway roads being parts of the highways.

 

[DerekS]

Hey that’s great news!

I was just thinking to myself, I wish I was the dead mouse guy compared to my current situation…

 

[SoccerMan94043]

I just heard from the body shop: “Good morning, so we've removed the rodents from the wheelhouse without any additional disassembly. We snaked in a camera to identify how they were positioned and pulled them out of the hole without damaging/cutting into any part of the vehicle. We're currently working on cleaning up the internal areas with sanitizers, bleach, paint thinners and then cavity wax to properly clean out the wheelhouse there. Once we're done with the process, we will send the vehicle back to the dealer to reassemble and do any necessary calibrations needed. We should be getting the vehicle back to the dealer by the beginning of next week.”

I’ve attached some pics of how disassembled it was, which is far less than taking apart the frame of the vehicle as was the prescription when it headed off to the body shop.

I need 4 new tires and breaks all around though.

Are there any tire recommendations for a tire that preforms as good if not better on dry and wet road conditions (I have two early teen daughters so safety is a priority), are as efficient as if not bette, provides a ride as comfortable if not more, last longer and costs less than the original equipment? (It’s a Cross Turismo 4 so it’s the base HP for 2023. Every Tesla, plus many other EVs and non-EVs are quicker off the line than mine, though most can’t hang in on turns like my car can - the Porsche DNA and tires.)

I live in the Bay Area so it’s dry or wet pavement conditions with hills and turns with the only straightaway roads being parts of the highways.

I'm a Michelin Pilot Sport fan because of the balance between wet and dry handling as well as comfort. It looks like you are already rocking them. Why change?

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