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Old 02-14-2024, 12:43 PM   #146 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MetroMPG View Post
Apparently mice can get in through the ventilation passages. Rodent damage is apparently one of the top problems with these cars. Search "rodent damage prius prime" and you'll find multiple similar stories.
I have only ever had problems with vermin inside the Prius. If I recall correctly, there are about a dozen paths of entry that have to be screened off to keep them out. Usually I'd find evidence they had been in the glove box.

Once, I left an unopened bag of potato chips in the rear hatch area. My friend and I did a multiple day trek to Mt. Whitney and arrived back to the car starving around 10pm. Vermin had helped themselves to the chips, chewing even the bag into tiny bits of confetti. No restaraunts open at 10pm and no fast food around... we just drove back to Washington that night hungry.

The worst was the one that died in the center armrest area. Smelled like a dead body in the car, and finally I buried my nose into every crevice of the interior, playing Marco Polo with the olfactory until isolating it to the center area.

Anyhow, your story is worse since you lost the whole car...

I wonder if the Gen IV or V suffer similar intrusion?
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