Had my first Wth moment - Varmit ate thru seat cover!

A lot of these new vinyls, the faux leathers, are made from organics. Usually really tasty plant based plastics and oils that rodents and other animals love. It's even used as wire insulation now too and it has led to speculation that lots of wiring harness problems are self made. When these plastics were made from nasty dino-based oils nothing would eat it because it was toxic and that was a pleasant side effect.

 

Supposedly, no personal experience, some plastic materials taste like peanut butter.

 

They could also be getting in through the hatch area exhaust flaps (remove hatch floor and tray to reveal), but start by meshing the cabin air intake?

 

Hummm, plastic eating bacteria, I've heard of. Plastic eating mice, can we use them for something good? Our field mice seems to be perfectly happy to be feeding on chicken scraps. I often find them trapped inside of a feed bucket.

BTW, have you tried looking for it in Ebay? Not that I have seen one, but they do sell odd things.

 

I thought everyone knew?
All modern vinyls and fake leather material is made from highly compressed Cheddar Cheese.

OK...not really.....but is seems so sometimes.

Hey, don't try to figure out the mind of a rodent.

My only fear and big concern would be if the rodent is still around.
Not to place a "Gremlin on the Wing" fear into the situation, but it could still be in the car, and munching on things even more important and potentially expensive than a seat cover.

Would hate to see the OP replace the cover, only to be ringing the dinner bell for the rodents second course.

 

Look at these seat covers fronts only bottoms only qty 2 for $40 on Amazon. Leather. Matched my DIL's tan seats amazingly. She likes. Ships from China so takes maybe 3 weeks or did over Xmas.

EDEALYN (Width 20.8×deep 21×Thick 0.35 inch Car Seat Cushions, 2pcs PU Leather car seat Covers car seat Protector for Car Driver and Passenger seat Bottom (Beige-B)

 

Mothballs distributed throughout the garage (corners, around the wall/floor corners, behind the boxes, at the back of the shelves, along the lower edge of the up-and-over door) seem to do the job for me! (the local dealer recommends to always leave the car with the outside vent in the closed (recirculate) position) - hope this helps - Wil

 

…and BTW, I know there be rodents in my garage - I well remember my last car (1993 Corolla DX Wagon) developed an interesting sound each time I turned on the blower fan (think back to when you were a kid, did you ever put folded-up cardboard (usually cigarette packets) in the wheels of your bike so the cardboard hit the spokes? …well that was the sound exactly!) - my local mechanic knew exactly what it was and sure enough there was a mouse-nest in the fan assembly), so out with Mr. Mouse & his house, and in with the mothball treatment, and (so far) no sign of the Mousies or their friends! (…touch wood!)

 

Get that mesh in, stop leaving the welcome mat out.

 

It was baseball cards we used on the spokes to get that sound. Had I saved them they might be worth real money now but back then we flipped them scaled them (closest to the wall) and otherwise tore them up.

 

Sucks that happened to your front seat cover. I myself was thinking of buying another set as a backup since I liked them so much. But I figured the quality is so good that it should last the life of the car. I got my on ebay probably from that same seller custom ordered and had to wait 2 months for the light grey color.

If the mouse came in through the cabin air vent. That is made of very easy to chew through paper like material. I am using K&N cabin air filter and that is made of metal mesh (2 layers).

Good luck.

 

I'm not sure rodents need to go through the cabin filter to gain access. And you don't really want them nesting atop the filter either. Putting 1/4" galvanized steel mesh (available at most hardware stores) over the inlet at the firewall stops them. You need to remove wipers and cowl to access this. Put the same stuff over the inlet of the snorkel to the engine air filter.

 

Plus 7C currently here. We're sweating.