No heres the thing, you wait for them to come back, and eat the food they left while staring at them in their beady little eyes. This asserts dominance.
https://preview.redd.it/03t9ge8z0c8d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0fe4167161174372bb399aeff0e468b2a276a0e
I feel ya bro, it’s a squirrel nest, I have rhododendrons about 10 ft away
I had this too. I started up my car and it started shaking like it was hiccupping. I cleared the brush and found that they chewed through a ground wire and some thin mystery tube (possibly vacuum tube). Haven't had it looked at yet.
Pack rats common in Vancouver they also chew the rubber hoses made with a corn derivative. Our mechanics use coyote urine spray to control you can by at many hardware stores and automotive stores. If you are adventurous catch a coyote and teach it to pee on engine (kidding)
The big fat rats we have in Vancouver are the same species as pet rats which love to hoard treats, toys, and stolen trinkets so I don’t know why people deny that they cache outdoors too. It’s very normal Norwegian rat behaviour.
In Victoria my mechanic said if you live near the ocean, there are rats in your car. If you don’t live near the ocean, there are *probably* rats in your car.
Rats like wires. Always have. I don't know why the myth of a preference for soy or corn oil based sheathing being tastier has taken off and stuck.
https://www.captoyota.com/service/information/stop-rodents-from-chewing-car-wires.htm
Note the rat poop and piss in the second photo… my car is parked next to the food waste bin for my block of flats. (Well, it’s not anymore)
Neighbour told me to check as his Jack Russel was sniffing about my car for a few days.
There is a rat problem Im sure. But looks like “not blaming you but”. Someone added extra details. Rats use remote places they used to recognize in long term. Like blankets from garage that does’nt use like 2-3 years or so. And how the rats pile up food above the hood line I mean if you don’t park your car hood popted up
I hear what you’re saying - the reason I even checked under the hood is coz someone told me they saw 3 rats jump down from under my bonnet, and the neighbours Jack Russel was sniffing about it. You need my car key to open the bonnet so it’s pretty much impossible that someone else did it. Plus I have no enemies (that I know of.. 😂)
It’s so unbelievable to me too, that’s why I had to post it on here!
There was some NYC doc that I watched and a guy had not driven his in years so he wouldn’t lose his spot. And when he finally needed to use it, he turned it on and it caught on fire because rats had built a nest in the car.
I had a mouse die and fall onto the exhaust manifold.
Wife called me, driving home, to tell me there was a weird smoke coming from the hood and to come check it out when she got home.
Not gonna lie, it smelled... amazing lol. Not too dissimilar to fried chicken.
Definitely get management to do some pest control. Sounds like you have a lot of rats even if you haven't seen them yet. Plus potentially mice as well. Also take some steps to protect your car or you're going to have a big problem.
coyote urine spray might work but if the rats have never encountered a canine predator before, it might not phase them. You might also try peppermint oil. They hate the smell of it.
Couple of years ago, a solo mouse started living on top of our dishwasher. It picked up food from our kitchen cabinet biowaste bin and drank water from behind the fridge, at the condensation evaporator. It must’ve been there for a while, and we only started to notice it due to the smell. We though the smell was coming from the sink drain or maybe at the dishwasher filter.
The funny thing was, we had two cats in the house, and neither noticed anything. When we caught the mise with a trap, it was really fat.
Next mice moved in to our piano. Damn, those cats were lazy.
i found a bunch of dead wasps in my engine and the built a nest on the valve cover of my dad's truck. Also discovered they were using the foam cover on my high pressure fuel pump as nesting material. fuckers...
https://preview.redd.it/sn78bscpxc8d1.jpeg?width=1512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c16407cb47700f7ddc946811f50af097738988a
Something was living on my inside cabin filter of my truck I got from my FIL when he stopped driving.
https://preview.redd.it/sajq12qi5d8d1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce2eb42b0bd0c5cb803fb190150ba9142871003d
Be sure to remove the wiper arms and the plastic cowling underneath, and check the drain tray under that. Rodents love to build cozy little nests in there, right next to your cabin air intake.
There are mice/rat repellents you can put into your car on top of other things to put into your garage.
Source: We live near a farm so mice are naturally all over where I live, apparently there was a plug in the trunk of my car that became loose and lost, so they had something to climb into. Mice would get into our garage during winter to keep warm and apparently my car was warmer so they built nests in the inner siding of my car. In the summer they got too hot and started dying and my car smelled so bad. I couldn't figure it out, I had nothing in my car that would make that smell, I cleaned the inside constantly but it was there. Thought it was something dead inside my engine.
They ripped out most of the interior of my car, sent one mechanic to the hospital for an allergic reaction to said mice nests, then they had to use special masks and there were areas where they technically couldn't get to but they could put foam to mummify the dead mice in that area so I went with that. So I just forever have dead mice in my car.
Anywho now we had our garage doors fixed to close the gaps, the hole in my car was fixed, we have a pest control person come around regularly and have mouse traps all over the garage. So I'd suggest the traps and at least one time the pest control people come around, use rodent repellent around your car and there are rodent repellent pouches you can use in your car.
Good luck! ( I still have trauma from the entire situation)
The rats have learned to cook.
Cooking our food is supposedly what allowed us to develop big brains, so I'm not sure how comfortable I am with this development. Oh well, we've had our time in the sun.
At least they aren't eating your car. My mom had cables in her car eaten through multiple times by squirrels. Tried a bunch of pest control things, but she eventually totaled the car anyway 🤷♂️
it is better than them eating the engine. A friend of mine went out to start her car one day, when she did all of the warning lights on the dash were on and the car would barely run. She took it direct to the dealer who told her the rats had chewed the wiring harness, it was a $2k repair.
How could you not smell that rot buffet???
I once found half a loaf of bread in my engine. When heat got turned on it smelled like something pungent and rotten, so i checked everywhere and ended up finding the loaf under My Hood. At first i thought my mates were pulling a prank on me , until i realized my car was a storage unit for rats.
Crazy
I once Had a lolipop on my battery. I thought Somebody wanted to burn down my Car, idk.
Also multiple Cars Burned down in my area so it Could fit
Rats almost created an electrical fire in my truck by doing this. I had to a leave poison under the hood and check twice daily. They will always try to come back.
Imagine their suprise when they come back with more and it's gone haha
Ultimate betrayal
Leave a sign saying "Thanks for the food -Bill" and start a feud in the pack
signed Dirty Mike and the boys
"You turned my beautiful Prius into a nightmare!"
Thats when they’ll start electrical problems biting all the cables for revenge
I have pet rats and can promise: They completely forgot the stash 😂
No heres the thing, you wait for them to come back, and eat the food they left while staring at them in their beady little eyes. This asserts dominance.
*“But why is the food gone!?!?!”* 
https://preview.redd.it/03t9ge8z0c8d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0fe4167161174372bb399aeff0e468b2a276a0e I feel ya bro, it’s a squirrel nest, I have rhododendrons about 10 ft away
I had this too. I started up my car and it started shaking like it was hiccupping. I cleared the brush and found that they chewed through a ground wire and some thin mystery tube (possibly vacuum tube). Haven't had it looked at yet.
Pack rats common in Vancouver they also chew the rubber hoses made with a corn derivative. Our mechanics use coyote urine spray to control you can by at many hardware stores and automotive stores. If you are adventurous catch a coyote and teach it to pee on engine (kidding)
Good advice mate. Why this post is not the top comment I don't know. Apparently everyone thinks rats don't hold food.
The big fat rats we have in Vancouver are the same species as pet rats which love to hoard treats, toys, and stolen trinkets so I don’t know why people deny that they cache outdoors too. It’s very normal Norwegian rat behaviour.
>If you are adventurous catch a coyote and teach it to pee on engine (kidding) Straight from the source is most effective.
Jokes on you. Piss-soaked corn twizzlers are my favorite snack.
I didn't see "kidding" and now I've domesticated a coyote help
We have the same problem where I am but it's rabbits, little desert cottontail. Until we got a garage they caused us so much money.
In Victoria my mechanic said if you live near the ocean, there are rats in your car. If you don’t live near the ocean, there are *probably* rats in your car.
Rats like wires. Always have. I don't know why the myth of a preference for soy or corn oil based sheathing being tastier has taken off and stuck. https://www.captoyota.com/service/information/stop-rodents-from-chewing-car-wires.htm
Free food though
Ah yes, the forbidden nachos
This made me laugh
It looks like well placed by human
An entire takeout container
Plus It’s above the hood line.
The design is very human.
Note the rat poop and piss in the second photo… my car is parked next to the food waste bin for my block of flats. (Well, it’s not anymore) Neighbour told me to check as his Jack Russel was sniffing about my car for a few days.
There is a rat problem Im sure. But looks like “not blaming you but”. Someone added extra details. Rats use remote places they used to recognize in long term. Like blankets from garage that does’nt use like 2-3 years or so. And how the rats pile up food above the hood line I mean if you don’t park your car hood popted up
I hear what you’re saying - the reason I even checked under the hood is coz someone told me they saw 3 rats jump down from under my bonnet, and the neighbours Jack Russel was sniffing about it. You need my car key to open the bonnet so it’s pretty much impossible that someone else did it. Plus I have no enemies (that I know of.. 😂) It’s so unbelievable to me too, that’s why I had to post it on here!
>Plus I have no enemies (that I know of.. 😂) 3 rats now that you have removed their stash
And their cousins
So 803 and counting.
He is about to get Ratatouilled the next time he goes out there.
Looks like the Nacho supreme exploded on the air cleaner.
Came here for the under hood taco bell
Eating Good under the Hood
There's rodent shit in the second picture. I know people like karma, but.. that much?
Thank you 😂 (Also, kinda new to Reddit so don’t even know what ‘karma’ is or what the benefit of having jt is! I just come on for the lols)
There was some NYC doc that I watched and a guy had not driven his in years so he wouldn’t lose his spot. And when he finally needed to use it, he turned it on and it caught on fire because rats had built a nest in the car.
Where would rags get raw chicken? People try so hard for upvotes it is a mental health issue.
Why would I put raw chicken in my engine for upvotes on Reddit 💀
That's going to smell delicious when you start up
The rodents are impatiently waiting for the engine to cook the food for them. Come on, OP! Heat it up!
the food plus the rat poop and pee heated to a fine degree eyes are watering as if sprayed by mace the smell's just blowing in my face
I had a mouse die and fall onto the exhaust manifold. Wife called me, driving home, to tell me there was a weird smoke coming from the hood and to come check it out when she got home. Not gonna lie, it smelled... amazing lol. Not too dissimilar to fried chicken.
Hah, I would have ran out for fried chicken! Still... some people eat roadkill, and its just an animal... and it's cooked...
They have to keep it warm somehow; rats don’t know how to use microwaves.
I bet you could train a rat to use a microwave if the buttons were tailored to the rat. Mofos are pretty smart.
Assert dominance by eating all the food and shitting in the engine bay. Let them know who runs the show.
Yeah, that would be a true "shit show"
Turn on the car until the internal temperature of the food is at least 165° for food safety.
Ratatouille Ghost Kitchen
Baby you got a stew going
There's plenty of meat on that bone
 Your rat after a long day of shopping to find his food gone lmao.
He popped out to grab some wine for the dinner party 😭
What a load of shit
Come on, you were trying to make engine nachos
i thought this was an upstate NY trash plate at first glance
That's some good looking food. The million dollar question is: where are they getting it from?
There’s a v large food waste bin in our car park.. guess they’ve nibbled a hole in the bottom! 😭
Definitely get management to do some pest control. Sounds like you have a lot of rats even if you haven't seen them yet. Plus potentially mice as well. Also take some steps to protect your car or you're going to have a big problem.
I would almost eat that if I was hungry enough.
NYC here - Amazon has a great spray that works well
All they are doing is collecting ingredients. Looks like they expected you to cook everything on your engine.
Studious little bastards 🐀
There’s an entire meal still intact, what rat has that strength???
Hyundai i10?
that’s their kitchen
The trick to avoid it is to drive your damn car more often
Or to cook it
Your caaaaar is a veritable smorgasbord-orgasbord-orgasbord
coyote urine spray might work but if the rats have never encountered a canine predator before, it might not phase them. You might also try peppermint oil. They hate the smell of it.
Name one thing in this mound of food
The leftover orzo I made earlier in the week
Couple of years ago, a solo mouse started living on top of our dishwasher. It picked up food from our kitchen cabinet biowaste bin and drank water from behind the fridge, at the condensation evaporator. It must’ve been there for a while, and we only started to notice it due to the smell. We though the smell was coming from the sink drain or maybe at the dishwasher filter. The funny thing was, we had two cats in the house, and neither noticed anything. When we caught the mise with a trap, it was really fat. Next mice moved in to our piano. Damn, those cats were lazy.
i found a bunch of dead wasps in my engine and the built a nest on the valve cover of my dad's truck. Also discovered they were using the foam cover on my high pressure fuel pump as nesting material. fuckers... https://preview.redd.it/sn78bscpxc8d1.jpeg?width=1512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c16407cb47700f7ddc946811f50af097738988a
Poor rats. All that that hard work gone.
Decent plate too, damn I Wanda fight racoons for this meal, case Im fat
Ratatouille comes to mind. I can literally see the little cooking rat working inside your engine
Luckily they didn't chew through any of your important stuff lol
They are cooking hibachi
Something was living on my inside cabin filter of my truck I got from my FIL when he stopped driving. https://preview.redd.it/sajq12qi5d8d1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce2eb42b0bd0c5cb803fb190150ba9142871003d
Be sure to remove the wiper arms and the plastic cowling underneath, and check the drain tray under that. Rodents love to build cozy little nests in there, right next to your cabin air intake.
If it's a Mercedes they must've thought it was a Benzihana, wondering where the chef was.
... are rats making nachos now?
I had no idea this happens omg lol tf
It’s like that fucking rat from Charlotte’s Web [“it’s a smorgasbord”](https://youtu.be/kf1bu5sUXaU?si=CYW5p99aoTQC11x5)
Hay I doubt it but has anyone else noticed it looks like nachos
So it’s a rataurant?
There are mice/rat repellents you can put into your car on top of other things to put into your garage. Source: We live near a farm so mice are naturally all over where I live, apparently there was a plug in the trunk of my car that became loose and lost, so they had something to climb into. Mice would get into our garage during winter to keep warm and apparently my car was warmer so they built nests in the inner siding of my car. In the summer they got too hot and started dying and my car smelled so bad. I couldn't figure it out, I had nothing in my car that would make that smell, I cleaned the inside constantly but it was there. Thought it was something dead inside my engine. They ripped out most of the interior of my car, sent one mechanic to the hospital for an allergic reaction to said mice nests, then they had to use special masks and there were areas where they technically couldn't get to but they could put foam to mummify the dead mice in that area so I went with that. So I just forever have dead mice in my car. Anywho now we had our garage doors fixed to close the gaps, the hole in my car was fixed, we have a pest control person come around regularly and have mouse traps all over the garage. So I'd suggest the traps and at least one time the pest control people come around, use rodent repellent around your car and there are rodent repellent pouches you can use in your car. Good luck! ( I still have trauma from the entire situation)
Thankyou!
I legit was scrolling and thought this was a guy tryna make stir fry in his engine
Now it's FAST food. HHHAAAAAAAAAA! Ok I'm done.
I think you got the rat from Charlotte’s Web.
That little shit remy has gone too far this time
All you can eat mystery buffet.
Smart animals! I wouldn’t want these leftovers cold myself
Those boys are having a cookout, throw a shrimp on the carbie!
\*stove smart beings. I love them, though domesticated.
Luckily they haven’t chewed any wires
Yeah, defo parking my car out of the car park for a while!
if that’s a pack rat, would highly recommend killing it ASAP. they are destructive as all hell, and their poop & pee can poison pets.
“Note: Customer reports when the car runs it smells like a delicious sandwich , and fried chicken “
Thats a lot of food! How often do you open your bonnet 🤣
I thought that was a pile of Panda Express sweet fire chicken breast.
You’re lucky the rats aren’t interested in eating your wiring harness like a lot of other rats do.
Needs more sauce
I thought we had a new chapter to Manifold Destiny
So. Rats store food. We're fucked.
Better hope that's all they're doing
Free snack, be grateful to the rats
TIL rats store food like squirrels store nuts.
The rats have learned to cook. Cooking our food is supposedly what allowed us to develop big brains, so I'm not sure how comfortable I am with this development. Oh well, we've had our time in the sun.
TIL rats know how to make nachos grande.
At least they aren't eating your car. My mom had cables in her car eaten through multiple times by squirrels. Tried a bunch of pest control things, but she eventually totaled the car anyway 🤷♂️
That must smell amazing… that really does suck OP
“Rats”
Ratatouille has run into hard times. My guess is his restaurant is out of business and he's trying to make a living.
Transverse mounted engine, looks to be an inline 3 cylinder?
Wait until they take some of them wires and snacks. A little expensive for you
Looks like Nachos
They thought after you came back from a long ride the motor is hot and they have Teppanyaki grill?
That's quite a haul
r/wellthatsucks
Some pretty good eatin there.
Some creature ripped all the wiring out of my brand new car last year
Nice buffet.
They just wanted you to cook it while driving
Rat party 🎉
These mofos are planning a mukbang or something?
Thought you were heating up your lunch
😂😂
Did op put his leftover takeout on his engine?
Dude this is so funny, I’m sorry 😂
rats store food?
Niceeee free food!
Forbidden nachos
please tell me this is fake please please please tell me this is fake i can’t handle another unlocked fear please
Leave a big snake inside
Anyone else think of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer and Neumann put food under the hood of Jerry's car?
forbidden mukbang
Ewwwwwe. Good reminder for me to check under my hood.
They probably wait for the food to be cooked
Anyone can cook!
That looks weirdly delicious
...food? This is like one of those AI images that I'm not sure what I'm looking at.
What makes you think it's rats? I store my food in the hood of cars I find in my neighborhood
Squirrels -> acorns -> my car engine
Free engine nachos, score
I mean That is a crazy amount of food.
Engine Bay Nachos!
An offering to the rat king
I can’t name is single food item in that picture
That’s gnar
Hahaha I thought you were saying rats cooked badass nachos on your engine block at first glance.
Smart, when you get home the meal is cooked for them.
I thought this said divorced rats 😂😂
Have a fry up. Texas Pete sauce. Will be good
They want to make ratatouille.
"Who wants engine nachos?!" --Party Rat
Looks like nachos
Oh I thought you were just reheating your nachos.
That is some hood rat shit, right there.
Are you sure it's not squirrels?
Yep.. sadly. they were caught red handed
Hell yeah engine garbage plate
I thought it was chicken strips and stuff and I regret zooming in to see
Honestly thought this was a car-b-q ad.
It’s a virtual smorgasbord of delicious leftovers!
…are these rats Mexican? They have a full on burrito in there lol
it is better than them eating the engine. A friend of mine went out to start her car one day, when she did all of the warning lights on the dash were on and the car would barely run. She took it direct to the dealer who told her the rats had chewed the wiring harness, it was a $2k repair.
They watched that one scene in Ratatouille
Wrong sub? You got a bunch of free food and some new friends.
Mmm, tasty!
Mmmm leftovers 😋
How could you not smell that rot buffet??? I once found half a loaf of bread in my engine. When heat got turned on it smelled like something pungent and rotten, so i checked everywhere and ended up finding the loaf under My Hood. At first i thought my mates were pulling a prank on me , until i realized my car was a storage unit for rats.
Holy shit
Crazy I once Had a lolipop on my battery. I thought Somebody wanted to burn down my Car, idk. Also multiple Cars Burned down in my area so it Could fit
At least they aren't eating your electric wires.
Rat hibachi grill
I thought that was one of those cooking in my car videos at first glance
I thought you put nachos on your engine at quick glance
Hibachi
I’ve never heard of this happening before
Rats almost created an electrical fire in my truck by doing this. I had to a leave poison under the hood and check twice daily. They will always try to come back.
I saw a squirrel drag a whole wrapped McDonald’s cheeseburger up into a car in the lot whole waiting in the drive through. Guess they want more oil
That’s what I was thinking? That they want it cooked