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Woman Suing
Toyota For Making
Such Tasty Wiring
The automaker refused to pay up when rodents destroyed the wiring in her RAV4, which has soy-based insulation.
Rodents aren’t exactly fussy eaters. If they can sink their teeth into it, they will chow down on it. A rat, for instance, can chew through steel if it puts its mind to it.
So a car’s wiring poses no challenge whatsoev- er to strong-jawed, pointy toothed vermin. Especially if it is cov- ered with a tasty, soy- based sheath.
Toyota uses soy-based insulation, as a Florida woman discovered when a whole bunch of the little blighters chewed through the wiring in the engine compartment of her 2015 RAV4.
Janice Toler filed a class-action lawsuit against Toyota earlier this week after it refused to repair the damage, which totaled around $5,500, under warranty, reports Action News JAX.
According to the ‘suit, Toler was told rodents had caused the damage when she took her car to a Toyota service cen- ter in October. She was shown the evidence,
including their bathroom arrangements.
Toler was told that “the car would require a total rewiring because rodents had chewed up almost every wire in the engine compartment,” the filing claims.
It goes on to say that Toyota regards such damage caused by ani- mals, including rodents, as “an environ- mental condition that is not covered under the warranty”.
Toler disagrees with that assertion, considering Toyota’s soy-based wiring insulation a defect. The automaker switched from petrole- um-based insulation to
the organic alternative a few years. The ‘suit argues that Toyota did so “in the name of profit and cost-cutting”.
Toyota would probably counter that environ- mental concerns played a bigger part in the deci- sion, but the company has yet to officially com- ment on Toler’s lawsuit. It also isn’t clear whether or not any other complainants have joined her in the ‘suit.
In 2015, one 2015 RAV4 owner com- plained to the National Highway Transport Safety Administration after the their car suf- fered similar rodent damage.
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